Example sentences of "knew they [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And the places that knew them shall know them no more . ’ |
| 2 | Pat and David have known each other since they were eight years old and astonishingly they say they always knew they would marry ! |
| 3 | Some part of her tried to convince her to make for the door , but she knew they would expect that . |
| 4 | They knew they would blow the lid on the hundreds of millions of pounds of defence equipment which they had allowed to go to Iraq . |
| 5 | He said he was sorry for not visiting more often , sorry for not being there , for not , for not , for not , these omissions of his , these confessions , they rose into his closed mouth until it seemed that he might choke , they were jumbled up , dislocated , like old bones in a crypt , but he knew they fitted together , he knew they would form a skeleton where he could hang the flesh and muscle of his guilt . |
| 6 | Peculiar , they all agreed , but they knew they would go to cabin 10 none the less , for the deep , dark eyes held a mystery . |
| 7 | I knew they would arrive sooner or later . |
| 8 | We knew they would finish up in rabbit pie . |
| 9 | I knew they would return ; perhaps tomorrow , in a year or in a million years , but they would be back . |
| 10 | He knew they would succeed , or die in the attempt . |
| 11 | If they were to find dry kindling to light a fire to cook their heron Marian knew they would have to stop soon , but not until they had found the stream again and crossed it . |
| 12 | It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me . |
| 13 | Mark took these pictures down because he knew they would terrify his patients . |
| 14 | They were going through the motions on television but their voices , face and body language were vividly clear — they knew they would lose and they were putting on a brave front . |
| 15 | Knowing both of them , I knew they would hit it off when they got to know one another better . |
| 16 | Soon Alison would know , the Carters would know , everyone would know , and once they knew they would cut me dead . |
| 17 | He did not tell his parents because he knew they would try to change his mind but he confided in a colleague at work . |
| 18 | Benny knew they would come to meet her off the bus . |
| 19 | She knew they would come back to her . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't understand how you knew they would come back here , to this time , at this place in the universe . |
| 21 | Best reckons there wo n't be much between the sides at Murrayfield , having been impressed by the Welsh commitment against his own team — ‘ We knew they would come at us , and they certainly did , though we should still have won ’ — while he has taken a liking to the revamped Scottish pack . |
| 22 | I knew they would follow me quickly so I told the spaceship to take me to a very quiet part of the Galaxy , a long way from any planets with people on . |
| 23 | She knew they could kick well and seeing ballet dancers on pointe , not being a dancer , thought it would be simple to combine the two . |
| 24 | Like Hannay , Chesterton would adapt quickly to the strangeness of his new environment , evolving into a pillar of strength on whom the audience knew they could depend in times of crisis . |
| 25 | Crabtree and Evelyn is not a name I would instantly associate with culinary excellence — though I always knew they could make you smell nice . |
| 26 | Many garrisons had surrendered quickly because they knew they could rely on Saladin to keep his word to spare their lives . |
| 27 | But bodyboarders knew they could do things with waves boardwalkers could only dream of . |
| 28 | The girls continued to giggle and scream and run and hide and generally have fun with their father , whom they adored and knew they could do as they liked with — especially , Katya , the middle one and the liveliest . |
| 29 | She longed to be back in his arms , to let his lips open her own , to melt against him , to give — and to take — the delight which instinctively she knew they could create together . |
| 30 | And in the liquid and buoyant capital markets of the 1980s , firms knew they could raise the money again quickly if they needed it . |