Example sentences of "[that] i know [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference between the way we saw life as young people — especially the amoral attitude to sex — and the conventional way of portraying it on screen was so great that I knew we were on the verge of a big change . |
| 2 | Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this . |
| 3 | ‘ It was at that place I told you about that I knew him , ’ he said to Lili . |
| 4 | I always felt that Basil was a very shy , warm hearted man with a special sort of honesty and I am glad that I knew him . |
| 5 | I could see , as he sang , the years drop away — so that I knew him : the young and hopeful singer , all the best to come , a bottle no more than something to be cracked among friends . |
| 6 | ‘ I would have thought that I knew him fairly well , but in writing the lyrics I found depths I had never contemplated . ’ |
| 7 | So thickly was the snow falling that I knew they could only just have been made , probably within the past five minutes . |
| 8 | The fact that I knew it was wicked to expose my smooth bare slit gave me a feeling both of pleasure and of power , never vocalised . |
| 9 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 10 | The laugh she gave was so dirty that I knew it was going to be all right . |
| 11 | It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing ! |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 13 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 14 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 15 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 16 | And do lots of things that I knew he was capable of doing . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ' ’ |
| 20 | I was shaken by its totality , its danger — here was a being that I knew I would die for without hesitation . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | That was n't the case with me , I just wanted the opportunity to do something that I knew I could do . |
| 23 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 24 | It was n't until the party that I knew I could n't pretend to myself any longer . |
| 25 | " I had chest pains so bad that I knew I would be unable to give 100 per cent . " |
| 26 | It was so clear that I knew I 'd been blind . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | my pain is that I knew you |
| 29 | ‘ Why have I always felt that I knew you before ? ’ |
| 30 | And to think , ’ I say , brushing mud from a faraway marsh off my boots , ‘ that I knew you when your idea of power-dressing was a tool-belt round your hips . ’ |