Example sentences of "[conj] i know i " in BNC.

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1 Such chivalry is rarely met with by such as I , and although I know I should refuse it , for it will put you in debt , I confess I can not . ’
2 Although I knew I probably should n't , I could n't help looking as he rummaged through the marvellous things in the cupboard .
3 And although I knew I must hide my feelings , must never allow myself to hope , I also knew that while there was breath in my body , I would always love him .
4 I told myself I 'd have an abortion , although I knew I could never go through with it , and I was so relieved when my period came .
5 Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches .
6 You , who wanted me to enter you on the same night , with the same sound still in my head , a sound that I knew I had somehow , somewhere , heard before .
7 Also , my brother was such a good trumpet player that I knew I would never be as good as he was , so there was that in there too : like , ‘ God , I do n't really want follow in this guy 's footsteps . ' ’
8 I was shaken by its totality , its danger — here was a being that I knew I would die for without hesitation .
9 It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend .
10 That was n't the case with me , I just wanted the opportunity to do something that I knew I could do .
11 So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do .
12 It was n't until the party that I knew I could n't pretend to myself any longer .
13 " I had chest pains so bad that I knew I would be unable to give 100 per cent . "
14 It was so clear that I knew I 'd been blind .
15 It was then that I knew I could have a fight on my hands : If the manager sided with him and asked me to move a few feet away then I 'd have no choice but to join in the squabble .
16 I know they are saying ‘ she ca n't sing ’ but the important thing to me is that I know I can .
17 Any species that I know I could n't provide the proper conditions for .
18 Just as I never never let other girls see that I know I am pretty ; nobody knows how I 've fallen over myself not to take that unfair advantage .
19 Darling darling , I feel that I am the luckiest man on earth and I want you to know that I know I am .
20 He graced his office with dignity and performed his duties with such excellence that I know I may have difficulty in walking in his footsteps .
21 okay , I ju as I say i do n't want to promise you something that that I know I 'm not going to be able to achieve in these two days because that 's not yep certainly if you want to talk about that you know as a separate thing outside the time then then we 'll be able to help you do that , okay ?
22 That 's actually all I want to say about the flipchart unless anybody 's any other comments I mean Jeff 's you 've obviously got a lot of experience in a do you feel there 's any anything further than that I know I 've covered it very briefly .
23 A week ago I did n't know what to learn and now there 's so many things that I know I want to learn .
24 They go because they need to cover some sort of guilt , I 'm convinced of that now , the more people that I know I mean fib of all people fib is now turned to religion .
25 I liked York very much , because it was set round a lake and it was the first one I went to , but I must say of the other modern universities that I know I would say that Sussex was erm was the other best one that I 've been to and the one that I felt most comfortable and happy .
26 I liked York very much , because it was set round a lake and erm it was the first one I went to , but I must say that of the other modern universities that I know I would say that Sussex was erm was the other best one that I 've been to and the one that I 've felt most erm comfortable and happy in .
27 What annoys me is that I know I saw the damn thing not too long ago !
28 I gave his wife some mulberries last autumn and I know he trusts us with the petrol allowance and anyway this beastly rationing should be over soon , so I know I should n't complain when some people have had it much worse up in town .
29 I 'd been told the baby was semi-posterior so I knew I had to turn her into a more comfortable position for birth .
30 ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’
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