Example sentences of "knew be " in BNC.
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| 1 | because Youth and Carniki I knew are in the same building , which is why we wanted to see you |
| 2 | And all who knew are dead now . ’ |
| 3 | Our lists contained the names of the family ‘ prigs ’ we knew were professional thieves and burglars ; and of whom I was advised on my arrival in the department by an old detective : ‘ you only get one chance a year to nail these bastards if you are lucky , so when you do , its got to be watertight ’ . |
| 4 | He showed a setof perfect white teeth which no one there but Jack knew were false . |
| 5 | All the other literary women he knew were old bags of whom he would be bitterly ashamed . |
| 6 | Before the tin victory brooch , these bottles of liquid strength were the only goods that Dot knew were hers alone , belonging to no grown-up . |
| 7 | There was only one thing I was ashamed of in my love for Dana , which had sprung from poetry , and from sources I knew were pure . |
| 8 | A family I knew were devastated when the thirty-five-year-old mother died after a short illness . |
| 9 | Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star . |
| 10 | Many of the writers gave stereotypes of bookshops which were clearly years out of date and which they themselves knew were out of date . |
| 11 | She had spent much of the week in and out of the air raid shelter dodging hit-and-run raiders who we knew were also reconnoitring for further attacks . |
| 12 | We were treated to a pathetic song , whose sentiments we knew were real enough . |
| 13 | Our objective was to identify and characterise anything unusual in the loch , so we had first to define the sonar characteristics or the things we knew were there : notably to establish the position , strength and movement of signals received from fish . |
| 14 | She , Bambi , Nell and the Youngs made their way past me without looking at me and continued on along the corridor beside the kitchen , going to inspect the revised quarters which I knew were in the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's . |
| 15 | As Pyke got me a half of bitter I stood there regarding the rows of inverted bottles behind the barman 's head , not looking at the other actors in the pub , who I knew were all staring at me . |
| 16 | Anyone using the double-paddle of these canoes for the first time finds his ( or her ) chest expanded in a strain on shoulder muscles he never knew were there until he started canoeing . |
| 17 | So to pay the rent he had to go off to Czechoslovakia and Australia to do films he knew were n't much good . |
| 18 | All I knew were the half-truths and lies that children were told in those days . |
| 19 | Most of the well-bred girls he knew were coarse as cows beside her . |
| 20 | Most were inherent cowards who picked only on people whom they knew were frightened of them . |
| 21 | I 'd come across that and used that intravenously and thought well I really enjoy this and at the time the people who I knew were breaking into chemists and things , they used to come across very powerful substances , diamorphine , crystallised cocaine , morphine , that whole range of opiates and also amphetamines , black bombers and all the rest of it and then opium became more available on the streets and it was round about the same price as cannabis was at the time … . |
| 22 | The only suitable families they knew were the Trants , the Rices and the Hoares over at Castlegregory , and the sons of these families were all inextricably involved in the conflicts between the English Lord Deputy and the Irish earls . |
| 23 | All I knew were prostitutes or pimps , and just about everyone had a criminal record . |
| 24 | Magee nodded and fumbled in his coat pocket for some matches he knew were there . |
| 25 | ‘ If all the blokes I knew were like you then I 'd be better off with another girl , would n't I ? ’ she said scornfully . |
| 26 | At least , all the other eighteen-year-olds I knew were like this , so I presumed it was normal . |
| 27 | The only corners I knew were in the playground where boys tried to fumble in my knickers , and street corners where the winds met head-on . |
| 28 | And how the only strokes they knew were those they practised on each other 's bodies . ) |
| 29 | This killer dressed like a popinjay , sweetly singing a madrigal to men he knew were his sworn enemies . |
| 30 | In comparison , the men she knew were mundane . |