Example sentences of "[pron] i know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat in the office one afternoon when I was off-duty , toying with the usual coffee and a wad ( a hard NAAFI bun of indeterminate ingredients ) , watching a young aircrew Sergeant Wireless Op/Air Gunner whom I knew slightly . |
| 2 | I was telephoned by the late Lord Plunket , Her Majesty 's Equerry , a man of exceptional charm whom I knew well and liked , who arranged the appointment and said diffidently , ‘ I hope you do not mind wearing a morning coat . ’ |
| 3 | As Robin said to me later , ‘ suddenly to walk in and to see a sea of faces , all of whom I knew well , was the most tremendously stirring moment . |
| 4 | It was delivered very secretly by a student of the Convitto Maria Luigia who travelled on the tram , and it had been given to him by another boy at the same school , a boarder whom I knew well and who lived in Fontenallato . |
| 5 | When a girl whom I knew only as Meriel remarked , as we were washing up the cocoa-cups , that she was ‘ brought up in a bog ’ , and I commented naïvely that she had no trace of Irish accent , the unassuming daughter of the Earl of Meath merely smiled . |
| 6 | Nizan himself made no attempt to conceal its manifestly autobiographical status : " Antoine Bloye is the story of a man whom I knew very well : my father . " |
| 7 | " Forgive me , " he said to Sir Edmund , " but when I went to the Commissioner , whom I know slightly , I understood that the police would be good enough to look into our problem . |
| 8 | I myself feel that the cat and the dog who live in the same house with me are fellow members of my family circle , closer related to me socially than the human neighbour next door whom I know only by sight and name , and infinitely closer than some odd Brazilian or Melanesian , with whom my only connection is that we are fellow men . |
| 9 | I do not follow The Guardian 's statement about farm incomes being at their lowest for 50 years , because many farmers whom I know now have two cars , quite tidy houses and a reasonable lifestyle . |
| 10 | Oh no no , if he , if he tried to pull a fast one we 've already had one like that th that came in and bought a set unfortunately his father paid by cheque , oh no , well he paid by two cheques which , they had a card on them I know very well they ca n't stop them very well and he went out and er , and er the T V was only in the car and he went round a corner quick and he went brrrm like that you know |
| 11 | up and running as it were and er I shall be I I know already that some of these figures are inaccurate |
| 12 | One or two I I know now I 'm writing them down and . |
| 13 | If I 'm with someone I know well , someone I feel at ease with , I do n't find it necessary to talk all the time . |
| 14 | And secondly , in terms of Liz Liz is someone I know extremely well and have worked with in various functions and committees over the past . |
| 15 | NOT and I repeat NOT the main carriage , as someone I know once did ! |
| 16 | She reminds me of someone I seen — someone I knew really well . |
| 17 | Yes she 's somebody I knew very very well indeed . |
| 18 | You look like somebody I know there , |
| 19 | He raised both his arms in his peculiar hieratic way , a way in which I knew now that there was something deliberately , not fortuitously , symbolic . |
| 20 | At this time I began , having been converted through reading the gospels , carefully to read the book of Acts and discovered there a level of Christian effectiveness of which I knew very little . |
| 21 | I shall therefore only attempt to generalise about those parts of the world which I know best , and I shall be ruthless in the selection of my facts . |
| 22 | Such doubts exist in Yorkshire and Humberside , which I know best , and in other northern and western areas . |
| 23 | In preparing ours for today and the whole question of thinking of being , main precedency of communion rests in our understanding erm , of ordination , which I know later we we will have time to discuss . |
| 24 | Idomeneo was not an opera which I know analytically , so I set about studying its overall character and moods , as well as its tonal plan and shape/form . |
| 25 | In cases about which I know only that his performance is better than mine , letting his advice tilt the balance in favour of his solution will sometimes , depending on my rate of mistakes and the formula used , improve my performance . |
| 26 | Er a pity too and er also the villages erm in the in the area erm which I know very well and my and the Letchworth er Letchworth itself . |
| 27 | What I can say to the honourable gentleman who I know always attends these European debates with great regularity , I 'll be only too glad to speak to him outside as well as the honourable gentleman to try and clarify these matters . |
| 28 | And I mean these were sens people who I know like since , were sensible people like , you know . |
| 29 | Places , I can tell you I know somewhere looking at them and I think where do I know you from |
| 30 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |