Example sentences of "[noun] that i knew [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though it has to be said , he wrote , and Goldberg , his eye racing down the page covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , paused to sip from the glass of fresh orange-juice at his side , wiped his forehead and went on typing , it has to be said that I have occasionally had the illusion that I knew what step to take first and even , occasionally , what step to take second , I will not talk about a third . |
| 2 | We were expected to follow the lessons in our Bibles , with the result that I knew my way about the Bible very competently . |
| 3 | ‘ In those Go-away times that I knew you had I should have guessed you needed help . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If you 'd known at the beginning that I knew your parents you would n't have even given me the time of day . |
| 6 | And do lots of things that I knew he was capable of doing . |
| 7 | Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me . |
| 8 | ‘ I was shocked in the sense that I knew what inspectors could do , but I was n't worried because I thought they were just wasting their time . ’ |
| 9 | I was shaken by its totality , its danger — here was a being that I knew I would die for without hesitation . |
| 10 | It was only later that I dared to approach the nurse who did the dispensing and whisper in her ear that I knew nothing of Bach Remedies and would she please enlighten me . |
| 11 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 12 | With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid . |
| 13 | He must have seen from my face that I knew what he was talking about . |
| 14 | 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 . ' ’ |
| 15 | It was n't until the party that I knew I could n't pretend to myself any longer . |
| 16 | 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 . |