Example sentences of "knew [pron] [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And the places that knew them shall know them no more . ’ |
| 2 | If he could have pulled her into his arms at that moment he knew nothing could have stopped him from making love to her . |
| 3 | They knew someone would go to get her and waited . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew someone might die . ’ |
| 5 | I did n't think anyone was aware of my leg ; I do limp , but for all they knew I might have just tripped over a plug or something . |
| 6 | I knew I would eat too much and mentally planned to restrict myself at lunch , which would be equally difficult . |
| 7 | Said he only saw me because he knew I would bring a present . ’ |
| 8 | So , back to the typing I knew I would go , but at least now I could see an end to it . |
| 9 | They knew I would guess they killed Sabine . ’ |
| 10 | But whatever happened I knew I would fail them . |
| 11 | The Queen knew I would accompany you here . |
| 12 | I knew I would want him to be coming home to me . |
| 13 | They all seemed pleased , as if I belonged ; but I knew I would leave them again before summer , would walk out of the brightly lit play , and go back to the shadows and solitude of fiction . |
| 14 | He nods morosely , as if he always knew I would leave him , and he tries to impress on me that I have to disappear out of sight . |
| 15 | I knew I would call you up |
| 16 | But , as she wrote in Newsweek , ‘ In my time , we ran a very firm policy ; people knew I would say no . |
| 17 | ‘ Because he knew I would help , ’ he said shortly . |
| 18 | I remembered the old man in the military coat and knew I would have felt safer with a handful of dry knucklebones in my pocket . |
| 19 | When I realised that Barny was untrainable , I knew I would have to find a hand-reared owl if I was to stand any chance of training one successfully . |
| 20 | I knew I would have to learn it quickly though , since Koraloona was connected with the Cook archipelago , most people spoke English . |
| 21 | Much as I was itching to play with the Bob Marley , I knew I would have more chance of parking Armstrong illegally when I collected Werewolf . |
| 22 | Well I knew I would have three people in the studio with sandwich boards on . |
| 23 | ‘ Away , ’ came the enigmatic reply and I knew I would learn nothing more until I arrived . |
| 24 | I was shaken by its totality , its danger — here was a being that I knew I would die for without hesitation . |
| 25 | It feels good , but I always knew I would get them behind me — it was just a matter of going out there and proving myself . ’ |
| 26 | I knew I would get a big sentence . |
| 27 | And I knew I would get it ba one , one second . |
| 28 | In the Cathedral and afterwards on a quiet walk outside , I knew I must go back to the hospital . |
| 29 | I knew I must talk with her again , but at that moment I was content to have used the words of the last of the great desert explorers . |
| 30 | And so I knew I must do this now . |