Example sentences of "that [pron] knew he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was at that place I told you about that I knew him , ’ he said to Lili . |
| 2 | I always felt that Basil was a very shy , warm hearted man with a special sort of honesty and I am glad that I knew him . |
| 3 | I could see , as he sang , the years drop away — so that I knew him : the young and hopeful singer , all the best to come , a bottle no more than something to be cracked among friends . |
| 4 | ‘ I would have thought that I knew him fairly well , but in writing the lyrics I found depths I had never contemplated . ’ |
| 5 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 6 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 7 | And do lots of things that I knew he was capable of doing . |
| 8 | He was smiling as if he recognized her , and she had a queer , uncanny feeling that she knew him very well … |
| 9 | And strangely enough she felt that she knew him but that was absurd , she had never seen him before . |
| 10 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 11 | She felt that she knew him already . |
| 12 | She felt she could partially excuse his megalomaniac meddlings in her genes now that she knew he was mentally unstable . |
| 13 | Maybe it was her way of telling him that she knew he was lying . |
| 14 | It said something that she knew he 'd never put in words . |
| 15 | Parul Courtney told the court that she knew he had made love to other women , but added : ‘ My husband is not the first person to have an affair , nor the last . ’ |
| 16 | She broke up the partnership with exhaustive cunning , prising Arthur away with weapons of sexual mortification that she knew he would never describe to a living soul , least of all to Fred , because she was Fred 's loved wife . |
| 17 | He was coming so fast that she knew he had not seen her and she had to brake sharply , frowning with exasperation . |
| 18 | He really was the most annoying , irritating man she had ever met , and if it had n't been for the fact that she knew he would carry out his threat and have her sacked she would have refused point-blank to go tonight . |
| 19 | She scolded him then , in her cheerful way that she knew he did n't mind . |
| 20 | She felt like running round to his villa right now , in the middle of the night , banging on the door , screaming jealous , incoherent orders at him that she knew he would not obey . |
| 21 | I 'm sorry , ’ she apologised , her action in not leaving a note seeming poor thanks now that she knew he had only been trying to protect her from himself when he 'd called her clinging . |
| 22 | ‘ So you now admit that you knew him ? ’ |
| 23 | Of course being nervous he often drank a little too much , so that when he finally looked up at the end of the night it would be with something like desperation , a fear that no one was going to ask him to leave with them ; but the way he looked at you also meant that you knew he would never say no , if you did ask . |
| 24 | Afterwards she felt that Sarah had deliberately steered the conversation away from Terry , and recalling her remark that they knew him better than she did , Anne felt uneasy without quite knowing why . |
| 25 | Now that they knew he would be leaving , the literary confraternity had already started to turn their backs on him , and had begun to scan the possible replacements in the current British intellectual mafia . |
| 26 | Jenna was a bit surprised that Alain knew this man and the fact that he knew him was n't making him any more gracious , either . |
| 27 | Mahmoud had established , though , that he knew him . |
| 28 | As for the race itself , Kinane added that he knew he would win some way from home and had enjoyed a trouble-free run throughout . |
| 29 | ‘ Where are you going , Rose ? ’ he asked in a tone that told her that he knew he had gone too far but she continued on her way . |
| 30 | The green at the 14th is so severely sloped that he knew he would need to leave her below the flag , and did so ‘ by about two light-years ’ . |