Example sentences of "[conj] i knew [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't believe it , ’ I said , although I knew she had boyfriends . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ In those Go-away times that I knew you had I should have guessed you needed help . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd been told the baby was semi-posterior so I knew I had to turn her into a more comfortable position for birth . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I knew more or less where he was and I knew he had not been recaptured — that was all . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You looked back at me , and I knew I had to follow you . |
| 10 | Again you just looked at me , and I knew I had to do as you had done , so I stretched out my right hand and touched the bones , which were slightly sticky . |
| 11 | But then eventually the surroundings grew unrecognizable and I knew I had gone beyond all previous boundaries . |
| 12 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 13 | I saw guys around my age [ in their forties ] dying around me from abuse , and I knew I had to quit to survive . |
| 14 | And I knew I had found my spiritual home . |
| 15 | And I knew I had been a child when I first came to live with him . |
| 16 | With the onset in the later stages of unmistakable labour pains in my lower abdomen all doubts were resolved and I knew I had to do something about it . |
| 17 | He did not change expression , but an eyebrow flickered and I knew I had him . |
| 18 | And I knew I had him . |
| 19 | Say no I 'm alright and I must 've lifted my head , all I could hear was this old scraggy voice like a witch , ah serve the fucking bastard right , the fucking honest to fuck , so I must 've sat for another half an hour and I knew I had to go that way to get home . |
| 20 | and I knew I had orders for them all , Katriane . |
| 21 | ‘ Depends — I mean , if I knew I had a team coming of course I 'd tell her . |
| 22 | I was laughing and you were getting the hump with it cos I knew I had it all on tape . |
| 23 | ‘ Ah , but I knew we had a first-class lifeguard on board . ’ |
| 24 | However , I did not find the professional ambience all that conducive , but I knew I had to do something with my voice . |
| 25 | As a concession to the New Wave I wore a black shirt , black jeans , white socks and black suede shoes , but I knew I had uninteresting hair . |
| 26 | But I knew I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 27 | But I knew I had to look , so slowly I peeped round the door . |
| 28 | ‘ I had no previous experience of minefields , but I knew I had to do something , ’ Dennis said at RAF Stafford . |
| 29 | But I knew I had become involved in something too uniquely bizarre to miss , or to spoil , through lack of patience or humour . |
| 30 | ‘ The bone was sticking out of my arm but I knew I had to carry on . |