Example sentences of "[conj] i know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aggie made no reply to this , and the child remained quiet until it was evident that she recognized the entrance to the area , for she exclaimed , ‘ Oh ! now I know where we are . ’ |
| 2 | I do n't really know where I , or I know where I 'm going but I have to take the troops with me I had er , I got you see what is parts of a I A P compact certificate it might in fact , if the boss would let me do , if I could do an industry in December right ? |
| 3 | I have cast this account in the past tense in order to relate it to the developments of the late 1960s , although I know that much of this shape and many of these assumptions have survived . |
| 4 | This was obviously not a state of affairs which could continue indefinitely and , although I knew as much at the time , I could n't will myself into sleep . |
| 5 | Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings . |
| 6 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
| 7 | As noon approached John adopted a behaviour pattern that I knew well : stretching , scratching , complacently sighing . |
| 8 | The wind was high when I knocked at her door , and I heard a voice from within that I knew not what to make of , though it sounded like the lullaby of a Mother to her Baby . |
| 9 | For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time . |
| 10 | I was glad that I knew exactly where Nigel was . |
| 11 | When I tried it , it was so beautiful that I knew exactly why people keep doing it . |
| 12 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 13 | I could n't wait to run home and tell my mother that I knew how to mix colours . ’ |
| 14 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 15 | Or through people that I knew before . |
| 16 | It is an autumnal sign and one in which the ‘ balance ’ might be tipped one way or another , and in sexuality could hover between male and female , with one sexual scale dipping then the other rising obediently and almost passively , distantly , independently , in an alternation of identities and desires that I knew so well . |
| 17 | The nose and beard also seemed to imply , to produce , to secrete constantly a certain kind of mind which had nothing to do with the intelligence diffused throughout the books , books that I knew so intimately , and which were permeated by a gentle and God-like wisdom . ’ |
| 18 | I 'd study too , so that I knew more about everything than the cleverest professors . |
| 19 | Irina had the idea that I knew certainly as much of the truth behind the events as anyone and possibly more . |
| 20 | ‘ None that I knew about , ’ Miss Honey said . |
| 21 | And this means that if on the same grounds I claim today to know that it will rain in the afternoon , I must continue to assert that I knew yesterday that it would rain that afternoon ( in the teeth of the evidence ) . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's not that there are two Nigel Mansells , it 's just that I know when to compete and when to relax . |
| 23 | I 've got this watch with an alarm on it , so that I know when to take it . |
| 24 | ‘ And when you see Bellybutton , tell him that I know where his brother is , and I 'll pick the bastard up whenever I choose and then feed him head first into a cane-shredder . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ So I ca n't say that I know where your mother is or why she left . ’ |
| 26 | There is of course no logical reason why things should be different this time , wrote Harsnet , why this too should not be an illusion , the illusion of imagining that I know not only what step to take first but also what step to take second and even what step to take third . |
| 27 | I can only say that I know not whence they came , nor have ever enquired whither they are going . |
| 28 | The special educational needs support service ( SENSS ) that I know well now has a structured hierarchy to ensure that available staffing resources are distributed through the borough according to needs . |
| 29 | But the energy was still there , we know full well , that there 's other MPs there , I think it 's thirty seven we 've got and we , the only one that I know well is Gerald Kaufman . |
| 30 | In my own drama teaching I rarely use games with a class that I know well , but when I 'm working with a class that I 've not met before I often begin the session with a short concentration exercise and then a simple game . |