Example sentences of "and i knew " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | In our family my cousins and I knew well beforehand because there were always slightly older sisters and cousins who told us … |
| 3 | Just because he came here in his working clothes and I knew he drove a lorry … |
| 4 | Dholuo was the language and I knew I was an encumbrance until I could make myself understood . |
| 5 | ‘ He knew and I knew , the obvious thing for him was a yorker . |
| 6 | This resulted in ‘ Aladdin ’ and I knew I did n't have much more to say about rock and roll . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And I knew he knew it . |
| 9 | After all , I had no real claim upon your attention , and I knew I meant so little to you I could be dropped at any moment without a second thought . |
| 10 | You looked back at me , and I knew I had to follow you . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yet I could not let him go : his love was too precious to me , and I knew I would never find its like again . |
| 13 | The white calico drawers would be standard wear , laundered all together , and I knew , having realized that none of the patients wore their dental plates , that there was no place here for black lace with rosebuds — nor if I brought them would they be long in her possession . |
| 14 | Then Julius Caesar comes up and I knew what he were going to say before he said it . ’ |
| 15 | In any case — thank God — eventually my period came and I knew I was n't pregnant . |
| 16 | But I loved the orchestra the moment I stood in front of it ; and I knew from that moment that wherever my musical life might lead me in the meantime , this was what I wanted . |
| 17 | And I knew it was wrong , but I could n't get out of this tradition because of the difficulty of realizing the inner content of the music . |
| 18 | ‘ I was looking forward to the film because there is a beginning and an end , and I knew where the character was going . ’ |
| 19 | I was looking forward to the film because there 's a beginning and an end , and I knew exactly where the character was going . |
| 20 | ‘ That bitch … ’ said Surkov softly , and I knew at once he was referring to Imogen . |
| 21 | I was only 19 or 20 , and I knew nothing about singing — but I was conscious of two things . |
| 22 | I was running , and I knew it . |
| 23 | He pleaded on the radio and I knew something terrible was happening there . |
| 24 | But long ago , in 1946 , the questing and the questioning had become almost unbearable , and I knew that to keep my sanity I must force myself to an arbitrary conclusion : I would believe the least terrible of terrible possibilities — that the plane had been shot down over the Channel by enemy action . |
| 25 | She should be the centre of social life abhorred and dominant , and she should sit like a great spider behind the curtains of the Garden Room , spying on her friends , and I knew that her name must be Elizabeth Mapp . |
| 26 | He reflected , ‘ It was a disaster , this movie , and I knew then it was going to set me back . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Those were all done on one roll of film ’ he explained , ‘ Because they had to be instantaneous and I knew if I went back again , it would not be the same . |
| 28 | And I knew in some sort , I think , that the animal was my brother , in this meek and helpless form . |
| 29 | Of course I did n't know at the time that this was to have been O's last night in The Bar ; and I knew that it was n't Boy 's first visit to The Bar , I mean he did not see O the very day he walked in , their eyes did not meet across the bar on that very first night . |
| 30 | But then eventually the surroundings grew unrecognizable and I knew I had gone beyond all previous boundaries . |