Example sentences of "[conj] i knew [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not struggle , and spoke politely to him , although I knew he did not understand any of my languages . |
| 2 | Although I knew it moved rapidly , all I had of it in my memory was a series of still pictures , captured in rain by lightning . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't believe it , ’ I said , although I knew she had boyfriends . |
| 4 | I was the prime suspect this time because of the Golden Syrup job , and although I knew she did n't have any proof , nothing I said made any difference . |
| 5 | Not that I wish to say , he wrote , that everything is inevitable , on the contrary , I wish to assert emphatically that nothing is inevitable and nothing was inevitable , neither what I did nor what I thought , neither what I felt nor what I suffered , yet everything was necessary , a necessary beginning and necessary Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) is misleading , since it was only after I had begun that I knew I had begun , while before I had begun , before the 27 July 1967 , there was no beginning , as there was no end , there was no time and there was no freedom from time , only endless cups of coffee , endless cups of tea , endless biscuits and endless bacon sandwiches . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It looked like half a letter T. The needle was so bent that I knew I knew that I would not be able to remove it in the usual way , so I took my heavy pliers ( the ones with which I behead the Passap/Pfaff needles when they got damaged ) and cut off the top of the needle , below the bend . |
| 8 | It was so clear that I knew I 'd been blind . |
| 9 | ‘ In those Go-away times that I knew you had I should have guessed you needed help . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd been told the baby was semi-posterior so I knew I had to turn her into a more comfortable position for birth . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 12 | When I came around the next time all I seen was smoke … and I knew we put the final bullet in him , ’ Destefani said after emerging from the cockpit of his winning racer . |
| 13 | I must have stood next to them in the Tube , passed them in the street , of course I 've overheard them and I knew they existed . |
| 14 | And I knew you liked city life , and would n't be happy in the country . ’ |
| 15 | I had detected a smell and taste of tobacco — and I knew she enjoyed , among other things , a furtive drag at a Woodbine . |
| 16 | Then he holes the putt , and I knew he 'd won because he was three shots in front . |
| 17 | My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening . |
| 18 | We 've had a few lazy laughs in the past , and I knew he carried clout , but I did n't give him the respect he deserved . |
| 19 | Just because he came here in his working clothes and I knew he drove a lorry … |
| 20 | For all the senator 's affability he was a proud man and I knew he had humbled himself to ask for my help and I also knew I could not refuse him . |
| 21 | I knew more or less where he was and I knew he had not been recaptured — that was all . |
| 22 | There were frogs all round us , bubbling away , and we sat still for a bit and then he said , ‘ That 's the sound of Africa — it 's one of the things I love best ’ , and I knew he had n't been thinking about the baby or about me . |
| 23 | And I knew he knew it . |
| 24 | He grinned amiably , and I knew he meant exactly what he said . |
| 25 | And I knew he wanted me to . |
| 26 | I never liked him and I knew he hated me . |
| 27 | He looked sad and I knew he did n't want her to leave but I also knew that he hated the constant uproar of quarrelling , so what was he to do ? |
| 28 | And I knew I know this bloke eh , when he was a sergeant I think , anyway he was an officer , and eh , said we go to Sheppeards , I said you silly devil I ca n't get into Sheppeards Hotel I 'm a signal man I had to laugh he said , shame , he said cor , you 're about my size , get stuck into one of my uniforms we had a couple of weekends at Sheppeards Hotel , we had a great time . |
| 29 | and I knew I 've had it . |
| 30 | ‘ Everyone started laughing and I was concerned that ‘ Jacki ’ might feel alienated but he immediately started laughing himself and I knew I 'd signed a character who 'd get on fine in Scotland . ’ |