Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] knew [adv] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Beating the bounds , when the parishioners walked round the parish boundaries to ensure that everyone knew where they were in case of dispute , was associated with the Rogationtide crop blessing .
2 Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings .
3 Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice .
4 The wind was high when I knocked at her door , and I heard a voice from within that I knew not what to make of , though it sounded like the lullaby of a Mother to her Baby .
5 It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words .
6 But I decided fairly quickly that once the reins were in somebody else 's hands , and that somebody knew exactly what they were doing , there was no point in coming back . ’
7 ‘ Give what ? ’ she asked , although she knew well what he meant .
8 She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it .
9 So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her .
10 She replied that she knew where he was but she did n't want to discuss it .
11 She began to feel that she knew where she was , a little : and after a while she too began to talk .
12 He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends .
13 She thought she knew herself very well , but faced with God she realized that she knew virtually nothing .
14 When they did converse , she said little and mostly listened ; it had only recently struck Angelica that she knew almost nothing more about Alina now than she had at the end of that first day .
15 After all , ’ said the kind-looking gentleman in his pleasant voice , ‘ they were aware by then that you knew where they lived , and that there was a chance you 'd have them arrested . ’
16 The third reading , for instance , was slower than the first , despite the fact that you knew exactly what you were looking for .
17 So without knowing any more than you knew when you sat the exam , you could pick up an extra three marks there .
18 He had always found that once you knew where you were wrong , then you had taken a great step towards being right .
19 It could be accomplished , I thought , by not worrying about the future , by taking things day by day , and our being perfectly honest with one another so that we knew where we were ; and loving .
20 Then , when we actually visit that place for the first time , a subconscious memory is triggered and we are convinced that we knew instinctively what it would look like .
21 And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were .
22 Not necessarily : ‘ I do n't think I meant that even the people who have no caveats attached implied that they knew absolutely everything in the box .
23 ‘ He did n't realize he 'd dropped a brick when he admitted that he knew where we were going .
24 Now that he knew where he was the details of the room became familiar , and he knew at once what had wakened him , and strained his ears to hear it again .
25 He was sprawled in an armchair opposite and the expression on his face clearly told her that he knew exactly what she and Jennifer had been discussing .
26 Small wonder , then , that the Scotsman Sir George Douglas burst out , as the English ambassador Sir Ralph Sadler reported to Henry VIII on 13 October 1543 , that ‘ the world is so full of falsehood , that he knew not whom he might trust ! ’ .
27 He was diffident , seemingly vague , declaring a lack of knowledge and ignorance of education and of teaching , and that he knew only what he had learned through his own work as a painter .
28 By the time Louise returned to the kitchen to tell him that his mother was ready to go home Constance felt that he knew absolutely everything about her , but had revealed nothing of himself .
29 The fact that he knew absolutely nothing about the airline business was neither here nor there .
30 You know he 'd far prefer to have the cheap workforce that you could tell exactly and appear to know what he 's talking about , whereas the older men knew that he knew absolutely nothing .
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