Example sentences of "that i 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 ) . |