Example sentences of "knew [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her Finals were approaching , and she had no idea of what she should do next , and indeed did not dare to think about the future for she knew that it offered her little in the way of readily acceptable projects . |
| 2 | She also knew that it meant that we could have a car when otherwise we could n't . |
| 3 | He saw an arc of blood , and knew that it came from his own neck . |
| 4 | He could not see its full extent from where he stood , but knew that it filled the Ch'ang Chiang basin , eight hundred li south to the mountains , a thousand li east to west . |
| 5 | Thérèse knew that it mattered , but she did not say why . |
| 6 | I knew that it made , besides such things as textiles , the remarkable Oerlikon guns and that it was part of the Oerlikon-Buhrle Group , employing some 40 000 people , mostly in Europe , but also in the US and Japan . |
| 7 | Now , she knew that it had not been a hallucination , it had been real . |
| 8 | He chose Touche Ross because he knew that it had a tie-up with Tohmatsu , the biggest accountancy firm in Japan . |
| 9 | If they believed they had ‘ natural ability ’ , they well knew that it had to be refined and fastened by a bridle of discipline . |
| 10 | Losing two front teeth , even two false front teeth , at the age of fifty , even if only for a week , had distressed him : he had sat opposite her at the breakfast table with a napkin over his mouth , and she knew that it had taken some courage to go to the board meeting at all . |
| 11 | She knew that it had not gone unremarked … |
| 12 | Now he knew that it had been a diversion , designed to hold his gaze so that he would be disadvantaged in his dealings with her . |
| 13 | She looked back at Nuadu and knew that it had to work . |
| 14 | On the previous Tuesday , she knew that it had been , in Johnny 's time , the 15th of August . |
| 15 | He knew that it had been a joke , because when it was over his father laughed so much that the laughter was still echoing around them as they started back towards the light . |
| 16 | Even though she had only had time to glimpse the devastation that had been wrought , she knew that it had been a professional job , carried out by men who would leave no trace behind them . |
| 17 | But in doing so I 'd be telling her that I knew that it had happened and therefore that Simon had talked to me . |
| 18 | That 's why sometimes they got mad at him because they knew he was talking to them and about them and they knew that it applied to them . |
| 19 | I I knew that it turned blue but I did n't know that was the test . |
| 20 | Paley knew that it needed a special explanation ; Darwin knew it , and I suspect that in his heart of hearts my philosopher companion knew it too . |
| 21 | Clara regarded her own development with unreserved satisfaction , for she knew that it promised well . |
| 22 | I knew that it did not , and could not , but for the next week I found myself despairing as if it did . |
| 23 | He knew that it did not , and yet she continued writing to him ; continued sending her love ; continued her demands , repeated in every letter , that he should go back to see her . |
| 24 | But he moved towards Paris in late March : everyone knew that it did not take six weeks to get from Paris to Attigny . |
| 25 | Cardiff knew that it wanted them . |
| 26 | This , at least , is the view of Gair ( 1978 ) , who reports that a Gallup Poll in May 1978 showed that 40 per cent of Americans did not know that the United States imported oil at all , and that hardly any of them knew that it imported about half its crude oil and refined products at that time . |
| 27 | I knew if it had been the other way round , if it was Robert I had to ask , he would have said , ‘ On yer bike . ’ ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I knew because it 's got a band of those black and white checks across the bonnet and the roof and running down the back . |
| 29 | That was wiser than she knew since it deflected her aunt from the shock of the announcement and gave her something to pursue . |
| 30 | Though both Rosen and Burgess and D'Costa had identified this language variety of black adolescents with Jamaican specifically , in the absence of a description , no one really knew whether it had the features of Jamaican Creole or not . |