Example sentences of "knew [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lorna Wood , a promotion activist working for the industry , gave me the full shock-horror story : ‘ People knew raisins were good for them . |
| 2 | His gown was rich and sombre ; he knew cloths , and had the means to buy the best . |
| 3 | In Chicago everyone knew Fingers but none of the promoters thought they were worth taking a risk on . |
| 4 | There was no denying , of course , that he was attractive plus , but good grief , she knew loads of attractive men . |
| 5 | She was never quite at ease with Finn , in spite of playing ‘ Battleships ’ with him ; his oblique glance sidled around her and he grinned as if he knew secrets about her which he would not share . |
| 6 | He knew roads , houses , remote farms and new developments so well that vital minutes could be saved . |
| 7 | The Egyptian and the classical worlds knew demons , forces of darkness , but they were bit players compared to Antony 's Devil . |
| 8 | As well as monitoring haulier performance , we initiated many projects where we knew savings could be made . |
| 9 | I ca n't agree with the lady over there that you know if money were know object we would all go out and get knew noses and |
| 10 | He knew thanks were required but the effort of offering them and making a satisfactory excuse seemed altogether too much . |
| 11 | He could also play a variety of instruments ( and passed on this ability to his children ) and knew songs and melodies which had never been written down — just passed on from ear to ear via generations of Dalesmen . |
| 12 | But Hoomey knew Nails was not like that . |
| 13 | ‘ There used to be totters , ’ said Billy O'Rourke , With big smelly horses and that And my dad knew gypsies who smile when they talk And live by the tip of the hat . ’ |
| 14 | I was vaguely aware that the dance floor had cleared like morning mist and also acutely conscious that Nolan knew volumes more about bare-knuckle fisticuffs than I did . |
| 15 | We already knew films were just projected light , as a spin-off discovery from experimentation with Park Drives . |
| 16 | There he knew places where he could get opium — dark , evil places where people bought and sold the beautiful , terrible dreams of opium . |
| 17 | It was the fairest way , the children said , because they knew places where she and Nick would never find them . |
| 18 | I 'm not the person you knew years ago . |
| 19 | People believed they knew things that could never be shared ; mysteries too deep and powerful for outsiders to understand . |
| 20 | Frankie liked Nanny 's house because it was warm and brightly lit , but he was rarely allowed to go there alone because Smallfry knew things about it that he would never understand . |
| 21 | His heart was still banging away unhealthily and his breath was wheezing with its late efforts , but he knew things were under control again . |
| 22 | They always knew things were bad when they came back from school together to William 's house and found William 's grandad painting battleships . |
| 23 | The other teachers in the department were prepared to support Rick in this , partly because of their personal and professional regard for him , but also because they too knew things had to change because of the GCSE . |
| 24 | All those years ago he knew things and said that services should be replanned in London , but did nothing whatever about it . |
| 25 | I knew things were getting a little out of hand . |
| 26 | I have not done that before in my career , but I knew things would not happen for us without action being taken . |
| 27 | She knew stories about Anancy the spider and the Maroon people who fought the British in the mountains . |
| 28 | The trial collapsed after former Defence Minister Alan Clark admitted in court the Government knew firms were supplying machinery to Iraq and breaking an arms embargo . |
| 29 | I knew conditions would be different once we crossed the railway and entered Danakil country . |
| 30 | I knew reams of the stuff , yards and yards of it , learned from my father ; the one absolutely true gift of my childhood . |