Example sentences of "that [pers pn] knew [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only later that I dared to approach the nurse who did the dispensing and whisper in her ear that I knew nothing of Bach Remedies and would she please enlighten me . |
| 2 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 3 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 4 | Not that I knew anything about the area of course . |
| 5 | I hoped that by knocking-off time I 'd be able to say that I knew someone who had finished it . |
| 6 | Mrs. Steed , too , insisted that she knew nothing of the sale . |
| 7 | I approached Inez , then Mrs Matthew Glynn , and she told me that she knew nothing of them . |
| 8 | Sure enough , Marc quirked his brow and asked , ‘ You intend to stick to this story that she knew nothing of your financial prospects ? ’ |
| 9 | In these moments of gilded sensuality she had the wonderful feeling that she knew everything she needed to know , right here , and right now , right beneath her fingertips . |
| 10 | She denied that she knew anything about the power of attorney . |
| 11 | Not that she knew anything about washing . |
| 12 | You seemed — that is we thought — that you knew something — ‘ |
| 13 | And foreseeing that necessity , you made sure that you knew something which could earn you money at need . |
| 14 | Matthew did not answer at once and Wycliffe went on : ‘ When I spoke to you last you told me that you knew nothing of his intentions . ’ |
| 15 | He confirmed that you knew nothing about any of it . |
| 16 | Dean 's parents spoke out angrily in the Mirror yesterday , after we had revealed the existence of the bug that they knew nothing about . |
| 17 | He was full of inconsequential but amusing chatter and Louise had been right when she said that he knew everybody . |
| 18 | In conversation Weight also attests that he knew nobody he liked sitting alone with more than John Minton . |
| 19 | Starkey said yesterday that he knew nothing of the move and as far as he was concerned he was still on Cacoethes . |
| 20 | His embarrassment about self-disclosure gives the impression , belied by his other books , that he knew nothing of the mystery that grace works by means of human weakness , not by side-stepping it . |
| 21 | Hitler saw Czechoslovakia as the key to breaking Germany 's encirclement while Neville Chamberlain excused his appeasement of Hitler with the excuse that he knew nothing about the Czechs . |
| 22 | The Director General of MI5 could truthfully say that he knew nothing . |
| 23 | He asked about several crimes of violence that had happened in south-east Antrim and Beattie told him that he knew nothing about any of them . |
| 24 | When , on demobilisation , Freddie returned to Scotland , expecting to step into the role of country squire or glorified estate manager — despite the fact that he knew nothing about agriculture — it had been a shock to find himself coldly received by his in-laws and his wife , who informed him that she definitely intended to start divorce proceedings . |
| 25 | Horsley cheerfully admitted when he took up the post of Chair that he knew nothing about newspapers . |
| 26 | He could always claim of course that he knew nothing of the layout of the engine-room and had always assumed that there had to be a reserve tank or that in a panic-stricken concern for the welfare of his beloved niece he had quite forgotten that there was no such tank . |
| 27 | Sartre 's character the Auto-Didact was working his way through an alphabetical subject catalogue , with the result that he knew nothing of subjects beginning with the later letters ; to learn mathematics by the route Algebra , Arithmetic , Calculus , Geometry … and on to Trigonometry would be bizarre by any conventional standard . |
| 28 | He had no idea , for the letter forced him at last to admit to himself that he knew nothing about his son , that he had lost touch with him , had allowed him over the years to drift further and further away so that now they were virtual strangers . |
| 29 | If they were stopped by the police and her basket was searched , he was to say that he knew nothing about the newspapers — she made him agree to this arrangement if he wanted to accompany her on her clandestine journeys . |
| 30 | It was clear from Hans 's face that he knew nothing about the allegations . |