Example sentences of "they knew [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , at least , is the view of Gair ( 1978 ) , who reports that a Gallup Poll in May 1978 showed that 40 per cent of Americans did not know that the United States imported oil at all , and that hardly any of them knew that it imported about half its crude oil and refined products at that time . |
| 2 | But they knew that it was a humiliating defeat . |
| 3 | Although they knew that it was a volcano , it had been dormant for centuries , and they had no records whatever of any eruptions . |
| 4 | Neither spoke ; they knew that it was a trauma she had to face . |
| 5 | I expect that everyone came to church here , this evening because they knew that it was a communion Sunday , and the sacrament of Holy Communion would be celebrated here this evening . |
| 6 | That 's why sometimes they got mad at him because they knew he was talking to them and about them and they knew that it applied to them . |