Example sentences of "that [pers pn] knew [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | As noon approached John adopted a behaviour pattern that I knew well : stretching , scratching , complacently sighing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I was glad that I knew exactly where Nigel was . |
| 7 | When I tried it , it was so beautiful that I knew exactly why people keep doing it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I could n't wait to run home and tell my mother that I knew how to mix colours . ’ |
| 10 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 11 | Or through people that I knew before . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | I 'd study too , so that I knew more about everything than the cleverest professors . |
| 15 | Irina had the idea that I knew certainly as much of the truth behind the events as anyone and possibly more . |
| 16 | ‘ None that I knew about , ’ Miss Honey said . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She ambled down roads and along paths that she knew well and she failed to record what she saw . |
| 23 | Even more so now : now that she knew just a little , a very little , of what it was to be persecuted … . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She had a sneaking suspicion that she knew why the men had not given up their seats . |
| 26 | She replied that she knew where he was but she did n't want to discuss it . |
| 27 | She began to feel that she knew where she was , a little : and after a while she too began to talk . |
| 28 | He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends . |
| 29 | She merely revealed herself for what she was : a cloistered innocent , lacking the fashionable touch , too earnest by half in her endeavours to persuade a jaded world that she knew best . |
| 30 | She thought she knew herself very well , but faced with God she realized that she knew virtually nothing . |