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Example sentences of "[art] [noun] i know [adv] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	At that time of the afternoon I knew only Lisabeth would be home , so I was n't too worried .
2	Like the driver I knew where we were going without being told .
3	When the studios were built , I wanted to record some of the songs I knew when I was young and I wanted to record them the way I wanted to hear them .
4	When I visited Estella 's London home , I found she had gone to stay with Miss Havisham , and so , leaving Magwitch in Herbert 's care , I went by coach to the town I knew so well .
5	‘ Perhaps I could teach him some of the things I know instead ? ’ suggested the Bookman .
6	It was something you could see , you know , I mean a lot of the things I knew anyway and knowing them is a different problem from actually putting them right .
7	A little fluttery , but positively macho beside the Queen of the Frocks I knew so well .
8	The jokes I know absolutely vulgar .
9	The moment I touched the ground I knew why — the excessive ( to me — but normal to Tiree residents ) wind whipped me and my heavily laden briefcase into the lounge where Peter McMillan , Manager of Scarinish Branch offered me the relative calm of his car .
10	If many of Hewlett 's correspondents felt as Mrs Lowndes did , this explains why Hewlett 's letters as edited by Laurence Binyon ( 1925 ) make such unexciting reading ; she herself records that of the three hundred letters printed by Binyon there was only one ‘ which I felt to be characteristic of the man I knew so well ’ .
11	The men I knew just did n't give their wives presents for no reason .
12	The men I know just do n't give their wives gifts for no reason .
13	If you think of the environment Gerry Conlon was in when he was wrongfully arrested — that world of squats and lodging houses and casual labour — that 's the world I knew when I was younger .
14	They were a totally different set of people from the ones I knew before .
15	I mean I 'll go out and do my bit in the way I know how and I leave him behind .
16	Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion .
17	I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action .
18	‘ Reminds me of a horse I knew once , ’ the farmer said , ‘ long time ago .
19	How long it continued as a workhouse I know not , but records were kept up till 1795 .
20	I do know about that , but this is someone else , a man I know slightly .
21	The position is , of course , quite different if the witness knows the person concerned well enough to say : ‘ I was hit by a man I know well and whose name is Jack Spratt . ’
22	It was a man I knew quite well .
23	‘ It 's a lovely evening , my dear Watson , ’ said a voice I knew well .
24	It is a river I know well , but a stretch I have never fished before , and when I see it I wonder why .
25	He relapsed into silence then , and because my mind was still trying to grapple with the politics of a country I knew very little about , I failed to ask him whether Gómez had made that flight on his own or if he had had a crew with him .
26	Ross , on his return to Britain , went back into the new route business as an outsider to the establishment scene — a position I know only too well .
27	I will ask a family I know well , out in the country , if you can stay with them . ’
28	‘ When I was an accountant I knew when I was going to be busy well in advance .
29	As an historian I know how valuable a commodity — and I mean valuable in terms of hard cash — it ought to be in these days when the whole of life , our own present as well as the past , seems to reach us pre-packaged in the form of interviews and telly-probe .