Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [vb past] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is what she said to herself , but at the same time she was alarmed , faintly alarmed by the implication that everyone did know such things . |
| 2 | It seemed that everyone wanted to know about what I was doing . |
| 3 | And because he was sad , I put my hand on his shoulder , told him that I 'd known Billy to be a good little man ; funny , brave . |
| 4 | Through the years that I 'd known him , I 'd watched him grow in mind and body and now felt a twinge of pride that he had grown so well . |
| 5 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 6 | However , on the first day that I got to know her I had a feeling that there was something peculiar about the woman . |
| 7 | Andrew Stavanger was compelled to turn to the bank for help after the dock strikes , and it was then that I got to know him . |
| 8 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 9 | It 's so good that I came to know Jesus as Lord before this silly disease got so bad . |
| 10 | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives . |
| 11 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 12 | It was the longest afternoon that I had known and it was worse when I heard the sound of tea being prepared downstairs for this made me even more hungry . |
| 13 | It was the end of my time in the Caribbean , of the sheltered , warm , family life that I had known there , and the beginning of a new and exciting era . |
| 14 | Halema turned to the Sheikha who said that I had known her well . |
| 15 | His anger was unlike any other that I had known . |
| 16 | I did n't know whether to go for the oatmeal for second choice or whether to stick to the saxe , but I definitely did not want jet or donkey , that I did know . |
| 17 | It seemed to me that the man I recently left was the only person that I did know . ’ |
| 18 | It was good to be able to demonstrate that I did know something about handling animals even though I had been qualified for only a few months . |
| 19 | I still had this uncomfortable feeling that I did know her . |
| 20 | He gave me a hard stare , which said all that I needed to know about my fate if he failed to beat me . |
| 21 | There was silence for a moment , and the sounds of the hospital intruded again briefly , then Belinda blurted , ‘ What made you feel that I needed to know about it , Faye ? ’ |
| 22 | four o'clock , and he was like read it and he oh , only fed ten P in and I got all the information that I needed to know . |
| 23 | Their mother , pale as the highland moon that she had known as a child , slept like a ghost embroidered on smoke . |
| 24 | This she protested against very strongly , on the ground that she had known many missed and some murdered who essayed to travel round that way in the night ; not that she thought such dark deeds as robbery would be perpetrated by any of the islanders , ‘ But you see , sir , the island is very near the sea , and all sorts of men are sailing round about , an ’ when they 've spent all their own earnings on drink , it 's hard to know what they 'll no' do to try and get more . ’ |
| 25 | She said that she knew about it and that she had known for quite a while . |
| 26 | She told the court that she had known eighteen-year-old Beno for three years , that in 1941 he had lost his power of speech when his lodgings suffered a direct hit , and that thereafter he had lived with the fantasy of becoming an air force officer . |
| 27 | Maxine told me that she had known all the time that she was her twentieth-century self and that she was sitting in a comfortable chair in my consulting room . |
| 28 | And he suspected that she had known more intimate secrets . |
| 29 | Candida Gray , Candida Gray , a name that she had known for as many years as she had known any such names ; she had not read as many of the novels as she ought to have done , but she had read one at least , and that one she actually remembered . |
| 30 | Looking back , Liz would try to remember the moment at which she had known rather than not known : she would have liked to have thought that she had known always , that there was no moment of shock , that knowledge had lain within her ( the all-knowing ) , that she had never truly been deceived , that at the very worst she had connived at her own deceit . |