Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] know was " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The worst teacher I ever knew was the chemistry teacher . |
| 2 | Investing all this hope in a girl I hardly knew was , in retrospect , highly dangerous , but I was in that sort of a mood . |
| 3 | For all I knew , they were flying the plane that I now knew was never going to make it to Bangkok . |
| 4 | Huge scaly legs , moist , glistening , with some slimy covering that she instinctively knew was giving off the putrid smell . |
| 5 | ‘ No one you now know was a stranger ? ’ |
| 6 | Of their own volition , her hands tightened in his hair , forcing his head forwards , and she responded to his kiss with a passion she never knew was within her . |
| 7 | ‘ It reminds me of the worst period in German history when members of certain institutions are held collectively responsible for what we now know was a misguided security doctrine , ’ Gen Schwanitz said . |
| 8 | But on their return , Diana is already starting to look thin with evidence of what we now know was bulimia . |
| 9 | The industrial mass was then a drilled mass and what it also knew was that to survive you had to take no chances : the best thing to say was nothing . |
| 10 | He eventually came to a kind of theatre , which he also knew was Mandru 's morning room , expanded to vast proportion . |
| 11 | The teaching body in the university , so far as it has not joined ‘ The Thing ’ , has always preferred to accept the philosophy of ‘ The Thing ’ rather than reassert what it well knew was the requisite of any academic society . |