Example sentences of "[noun sg] i know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not like recipes ; in any case I knew how to cook what my husband liked perfectly well without them . |
| 2 | A nut case I know exactly how you feel . |
| 3 | Like the driver I knew where we were going without being told . |
| 4 | ( And believe me , with my parentage I know whereof I speak , except in my mother 's case marriage did n't come into it . |
| 5 | But of course I knew where she was , and that she was calling at Genoa . |
| 6 | Of course I know why she says things like that : it 's to make me feel bourgeois , provincial , conventional , inhibited — the complete little woman ! |
| 7 | Sure , of course I know where the dolmen is . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course I know how . |
| 9 | At that time of the afternoon I knew only Lisabeth would be home , so I was n't too worried . |
| 10 | I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action . |
| 11 | Well er er erm the the whole point of about asking that sort of question is that er I in my own mind I know where I think |
| 12 | ‘ Reminds me of a horse I knew once , ’ the farmer said , ‘ long time ago . |
| 13 | Because me study Slavery me know wea dem cumin from , |
| 14 | Certainly it is the only Egyptian village I know where the houses are placed so far apart . |
| 15 | I got talking to a Faber editor I knew slightly . |
| 16 | Before I reached my window I knew full well the terrible sight which surely awaited me . |
| 17 | How long it continued as a workhouse I know not , but records were kept up till 1795 . |
| 18 | And I thought well it 's going to be awkward to get a piece of wood for that I mean knowing your dad with wood I know Anyhow I said er it 's just the right height for me |
| 19 | When I visited Estella 's London home , I found she had gone to stay with Miss Havisham , and so , leaving Magwitch in Herbert 's care , I went by coach to the town I knew so well . |
| 20 | which is being drawn to your attention I know over again a number of er months and years . |
| 21 | ‘ When I was an accountant I knew when I was going to be busy well in advance . |
| 22 | To this day I know not how he chose ; no , and I do n't know how he should have chosen . |
| 23 | That 's one person I know where to find . ’ |
| 24 | He smiles with the familiar grin I know so well , but this time I see those eyes of loneliness , as if there 's something no-one could understand , hidden by his visage of cheerfulness . |
| 25 | The moment I touched the ground I knew why — the excessive ( to me — but normal to Tiree residents ) wind whipped me and my heavily laden briefcase into the lounge where Peter McMillan , Manager of Scarinish Branch offered me the relative calm of his car . |
| 26 | It was a man I knew quite well . |
| 27 | If many of Hewlett 's correspondents felt as Mrs Lowndes did , this explains why Hewlett 's letters as edited by Laurence Binyon ( 1925 ) make such unexciting reading ; she herself records that of the three hundred letters printed by Binyon there was only one ‘ which I felt to be characteristic of the man I knew so well ’ . |
| 28 | The position is , of course , quite different if the witness knows the person concerned well enough to say : ‘ I was hit by a man I know well and whose name is Jack Spratt . ’ |
| 29 | I do know about that , but this is someone else , a man I know slightly . |
| 30 | It is a river I know well , but a stretch I have never fished before , and when I see it I wonder why . |