Example sentences of "i knew [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I knew that it was time to leave , and we said goodbye to them on New Year 's Eve . |
| 2 | Of course I did n't know at the time that this was to have been O's last night in The Bar ; and I knew that it was n't Boy 's first visit to The Bar , I mean he did not see O the very day he walked in , their eyes did not meet across the bar on that very first night . |
| 3 | I knew that it did not , and could not , but for the next week I found myself despairing as if it did . |
| 4 | None of his designs that we now possess was built , and my first thought was of regret that this should be so , but on reflection I knew that it was right . |
| 5 | I knew that it made , besides such things as textiles , the remarkable Oerlikon guns and that it was part of the Oerlikon-Buhrle Group , employing some 40 000 people , mostly in Europe , but also in the US and Japan . |
| 6 | I knew that it was quite possible to help Carol remember everything that had happened , but I also knew that it would be quite distressing for her — as indeed the trial itself would be . |
| 7 | But I knew that it was no massive dental operation in progress but that the sluice itself was blocked by leaves , that the water going into the pipe which fed the turbine was at a minimum and that if I did n't get up and deal with the problem the turbine would shut down and the melin would be pretty cold in the morning . |
| 8 | One survivor says : ‘ When I saw the first bomb fall , I knew that it was going to be a bad day for America ’ . |
| 9 | Soon I , too , was very distressed , but I knew that it was going to be dead within a few hours , and I was helpless . |
| 10 | But I knew that it would be difficult to persuade Jimbo that he had to work at the exercises : yet if the treatment were to succeed , it had to be him — Jimbo himself — who , in the end , would reopen the pathway of nerves between brain and muscle . |
| 11 | It 's been a lot of hard work but I knew that it would be when I first came on to the Tour . |
| 12 | I knew that it would at the very least be fun to fail again , however effortlessly , and we agreed to meet at a pub in Barnes on the following evening . |
| 13 | Beauty flowed from her also ; although it was shrouded I knew that it was there , no veil or coverings could obscure it — at least , to my imagination . |
| 14 | I knew that it was the most wrong and wicked thing to do |
| 15 | I I knew that it turned blue but I did n't know that was the test . |
| 16 | I could see that Estella was still proud , and I knew that it was she who made me feel ashamed of home , and Joe , but I also knew that I could never stop loving her . |
| 17 | Now I knew that it was n't to be said . |
| 18 | It was a small , stuffy room , and yet I distinctly felt a chill in the air , like a draught , and I knew that it must be coming from that other world my uncle had told me about , and that the threshold to it was somewhere very close at hand . |
| 19 | I , I knew , I , I knew that it was because the , that the taxi cabs had insisted , but now told us the reason . |
| 20 | But er I knew that it was n't poss always possible for one to be at the branch meeting you see . |
| 21 | But in doing so I 'd be telling her that I knew that it had happened and therefore that Simon had talked to me . |
| 22 | ‘ I knew because it 's got a band of those black and white checks across the bonnet and the roof and running down the back . |
| 23 | I knew if it had been the other way round , if it was Robert I had to ask , he would have said , ‘ On yer bike . ’ ’ |