Example sentences of "that [pron] knew [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Beating the bounds , when the parishioners walked round the parish boundaries to ensure that everyone knew where they were in case of dispute , was associated with the Rogationtide crop blessing .
2 Before long , he would be required to produce more than just carefully worded facts about the murder that everyone knew already from the grapevine .
3 Aaron Wildavsky argued that while PPBS had many shortcomings , the fundamental reason for its demise was that no-one knew how to do programme budgeting .
4 Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings .
5 Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice .
6 As noon approached John adopted a behaviour pattern that I knew well : stretching , scratching , complacently sighing .
7 The wind was high when I knocked at her door , and I heard a voice from within that I knew not what to make of , though it sounded like the lullaby of a Mother to her Baby .
8 For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time .
9 I was glad that I knew exactly where Nigel was .
10 When I tried it , it was so beautiful that I knew exactly why people keep doing it .
11 It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words .
12 I could n't wait to run home and tell my mother that I knew how to mix colours . ’
13 I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions .
14 Or through people that I knew before .
15 It is an autumnal sign and one in which the ‘ balance ’ might be tipped one way or another , and in sexuality could hover between male and female , with one sexual scale dipping then the other rising obediently and almost passively , distantly , independently , in an alternation of identities and desires that I knew so well .
16 The nose and beard also seemed to imply , to produce , to secrete constantly a certain kind of mind which had nothing to do with the intelligence diffused throughout the books , books that I knew so intimately , and which were permeated by a gentle and God-like wisdom . ’
17 I 'd study too , so that I knew more about everything than the cleverest professors .
18 Irina had the idea that I knew certainly as much of the truth behind the events as anyone and possibly more .
19 ‘ None that I knew about , ’ Miss Honey said .
20 And this means that if on the same grounds I claim today to know that it will rain in the afternoon , I must continue to assert that I knew yesterday that it would rain that afternoon ( in the teeth of the evidence ) .
21 But I decided fairly quickly that once the reins were in somebody else 's hands , and that somebody knew exactly what they were doing , there was no point in coming back . ’
22 On the way in from the airport , Hurley had warned him that the back bedroom was full of electronic gear that nobody knew how to use .
23 She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it .
24 So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her .
25 Yet , while she was finding him most difficult to forget , the realisation only then struck her that she knew neither the name of the garage that housed her car , nor the place where it was situated !
26 Meanwhile , she had the whole afternoon to prove to Mr All-too-sure-of-himself Blake that she knew exactly how to behave like a lady .
27 She ambled down roads and along paths that she knew well and she failed to record what she saw .
28 Even more so now : now that she knew just a little , a very little , of what it was to be persecuted … .
29 She had lean flanks and no tummy , and I could see from the way her breasts moved slightly when she walked that she wore nothing underneath her blouse ; I also had the feeling that she knew instantly that I knew .
30 She had a sneaking suspicion that she knew why the men had not given up their seats .
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