Example sentences of "[conj] i know [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to tell him calmly that I knew perfectly well that it was absurd and quite understood the point of his questions . |
| 2 | It is an autumnal sign and one in which the ‘ balance ’ might be tipped one way or another , and in sexuality could hover between male and female , with one sexual scale dipping then the other rising obediently and almost passively , distantly , independently , in an alternation of identities and desires that I knew so well . |
| 3 | The nose and beard also seemed to imply , to produce , to secrete constantly a certain kind of mind which had nothing to do with the intelligence diffused throughout the books , books that I knew so intimately , and which were permeated by a gentle and God-like wisdom . ’ |
| 4 | Irina had the idea that I knew certainly as much of the truth behind the events as anyone and possibly more . |
| 5 | The special educational needs support service ( SENSS ) that I know well now has a structured hierarchy to ensure that available staffing resources are distributed through the borough according to needs . |
| 6 | ‘ But all that means is that I know damn well what not to do . |
| 7 | All that I know so far — at least , all that is worth telling here — is that there are a number of different glycoproteins of a variety of molecular weights , on both pre- and postsynaptic sides of the membrane , involved in the response to training on the bead . |
| 8 | But I would much rather find Mason puzzling than feel , as I do only too often , that I know all too well what so many of his more consistently praised contemporaries are on about , in music that routinely tells me nothing I did n't know already , or would indeed prefer never to hear again . |
| 9 | I think everyone 's got their own ways of dealing with them , you know certainly some people ignore them , you know I prefer to ignore them rather than taunt them , er possibly because I was n't really friendly with any of them that did go back , I think people who were close friends have found it very awkward and I know even now they 're probably looking daggers at each other you know , that sort of thing . |
| 10 | And I know full well now what it 's like to be standing on a picket line for seven months . |
| 11 | Well actually people in my area do have a concern about this , also though I was brought up in my teens at least within a rural area and I know full well that to hold certain views even those of the majority within rural areas , are not necessarily easily expressed and I have today been told of yet another example of this being the case . |
| 12 | And I know perfectly well Croxford is a crummy school , but it suits me and I suit it , which does n't say a lot for either of us . ’ |
| 13 | And I know perfectly well that there 's no way that er I could get my wife to move out of the town , she loves it . |
| 14 | I was widowed four years ago and I know only too well what a terrible thing it is to suddenly find yourself alone . |
| 15 | I am by no means inclined to consider Diodorus a mere copyist of his sources , and I know only too well that by stylistic criteria one could prove that Sir Ronald Syme is the author of some of the books written by his pupils . |
| 16 | Because what I really want , after all , is to give them a true belief , and I know very well that , although I want my own beliefs to be true ( because that 's what makes them useful ) , we can all make mistakes . |
| 17 | And I know very well how much you love them all — especially the old rogue Abuelo Freitas . |
| 18 | I mean ah I know I know but then he 's pretty tied up and I know very well but even trying to get lunch with is difficult but there may be there may be I mean I know quite well but would want . |
| 19 | In our family my cousins and I knew well beforehand because there were always slightly older sisters and cousins who told us … |
| 20 | I heard the pounding of rapid footsteps and I knew straight away that it was n't a policeman ( they wear rubber soles these days ) and then somebody yelled , ‘ Hey , you ! ’ |
| 21 | The other students stayed seated , all turned towards the newcomer , anxious to make his acquaintance , and I knew only too well that he could have any one of them he liked as his friend . |
| 22 | And I knew all too well that we possess our lover only in our minds , that passionate love is incom-patible with life . |
| 23 | How far all this was homesickness or a defensive strategy against ( anticipated ? ) rejection by the surrounding community , or just sheer stubbornness , I now ca n't tell , but I knew even then that it had nothing to do with the world in which I was trying to live . |
| 24 | But I knew straight away that you and that handsome husband of yours just had to be Leos ! ’ |
| 25 | I would have loved to have stayed because I really enjoy things like that , I love discos and get up and have a dance but I knew damn well that if I did I 'd be absolutely shattered today and I , I just would n't be with it so I , I said to Matthew I 'm going up . |
| 26 | But I knew very well the ones with fruits that we could eat , that provided food for birds , that had special flowers . |
| 27 | I was only a couple of years older myself , but I knew enough never to believe a word he said . |
| 28 | ‘ But I know somewhere even safer than that . ’ |
| 29 | But I know also now that you love me . |
| 30 | ‘ But I know perfectly well that your welfare services would have put her into a home , if she was as poor as you claim — ’ |