Example sentences of "i knew [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The realist strategy involved comparing the description of the person with the subject him/herself or someone the subject was familiar with ; ‘ I also related a lot of the adjectives to whether they were like me ’ , ‘ … and rated the person as if I knew them personally . |
| 2 | In this case my comment was not a stab in the back or a shot in the dark ; I knew her well . |
| 3 | I knew her so short a time . ’ |
| 4 | I knew her once , ’ he stuttered , ‘ it 's a gift . ’ |
| 5 | I knew one once . |
| 6 | I told her that at last I knew what really had happened to my father , her beloved husband , the man who had laid down his life for his country . |
| 7 | Anyway ; I used to be petrified of these dragons , even though I knew they probably did n't exist ; I mean I knew there was no Santa Claus , and no fairies and elves , but still thought ghosts and dragons were a possibility , and it only took one to kill you … |
| 8 | They went to Merrivale today , she and Chadam , I knew they both had today off , she said it was gorgeous there |
| 9 | I did n't think too much about this at the time , although I knew they usually only had money for their ‘ little pleasures ’ after they 'd done the washing and pawned it . |
| 10 | I knew somebody else who could do that , but he had four feet . |
| 11 | I worked it out from what cards I 'd got and what I knew somebody else had n't got |
| 12 | It was a kind of lifestyle I knew nothing about , having always lived in South Kensington . |
| 13 | He had been a very successful amateur boxer , and sometimes would try to relieve our tension by sparring with me , teaching me basic moves of a sport I knew nothing about and instinctively detested . |
| 14 | I understood that you might like me better if I had experience , if I did n't have opinions about things I knew nothing about . … ’ |
| 15 | I knew nothing then of that great cartoonist H.M. |
| 16 | I knew nothing really about the behind-the-scenes activities of missions working in remote islands , but the Australian representative , Brian Parker , explained that he worked for several missions of different denominations , arranging facilities , transfer of funds , booking hotels for newcomers and whatever might be needed . |
| 17 | I expected to see Dr Mortimer , as I knew nobody else in the village . |
| 18 | At least back when I lived in a hole I knew everything there was to know about living in a hole , and now it 's a year later and I 'm at a place so far away I do n't even know how far away it is , watching something I do n't understand go to a place so far up there is no down . |
| 19 | " I knew him briefly in the last days before the Rising , but I know of his work of course . |
| 20 | ‘ At the record company party , on their hands a dead star at last , the sycophantic slags all say , ‘ I knew him best and I knew him well ’ . ’ |
| 21 | I knew him well . |
| 22 | A Alas poor Waldo , I knew him well . |
| 23 | I knew him well as he was a collector . |
| 24 | I knew him well enough by now to know that he would never presume to tell me what to do . |
| 25 | ‘ I knew him well enough , ’ said Desmond , on the defensive . |
| 26 | I knew him well enough to spot that . |
| 27 | I knew him well . |
| 28 | If , in the 1980s a social worker or manager said they were ‘ working on the patch ’ , everyone would murmur reverentially : ‘ Alas , Professor Hadley , I knew him well ’ , or : ‘ I worked for East Sussex once ’ . |
| 29 | I knew him pretty well then . ’ |
| 30 | I have known Basil for about thirty years , I knew him shortly after he came back from Vienna . |