Example sentences of "knew [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I also knew that it was this cold that drew me , this steady destruction of body and imagination , this utter alienness , as though only that could still excite me , as though anything less alien would only leave me indifferent . |
| 2 | Almost immediately on arrival , surrounded by the cosmopolitan excitement of New York , its immense anonymity , the total lack of personal interest shown towards him after having been the centre of warmth and appreciation in Montreal , he knew that it was not for him . |
| 3 | But they knew that it was a humiliating defeat . |
| 4 | As soon as she had said it she knew that it was true and that made her sadder and crosser . |
| 5 | The idea was just beginning to catch on in America and we knew that it was going to become the way that retailing companies were run . |
| 6 | He knew that it was no use shielding Charles . |
| 7 | Of those who had , only six per cent knew that it was dangerous . |
| 8 | That feeling was strange , she resisted it , she knew that it was absurd as well as amoral , but in the end she told herself that she could not command her feelings : she was no longer able to torment herself with thoughts of their wars nor to enjoy their celebrations , because she was filled with the conviction that none of it was her concern . |
| 9 | As a lifelong Communist , Clasper knew that it was absolutely essential to wrest control of the workers away from the plant management . |
| 10 | But I knew that it was time to leave , and we said goodbye to them on New Year 's Eve . |
| 11 | She knew that it was no use offering to make it : it would only make Bella angry . |
| 12 | Marie knew that it was no good going to ask Madge anything . |
| 13 | He saw an arc of blood , and knew that it came from his own neck . |
| 14 | Now , she knew that it had not been a hallucination , it had been real . |
| 15 | But he knew that it was a fantasy . |
| 16 | Trent thought of calling at her to relax but he knew that it would be as pointless as trying another smile . |
| 17 | It was just a place where she had been left , and as she grew out of infancy she knew that it was her mother who had left her there . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Although they knew that it was a volcano , it had been dormant for centuries , and they had no records whatever of any eruptions . |
| 20 | Then he pulled down the oven door , smelt the sweet , fatty smell of the meat and knew that it was probably this very fact that accounted for his decision to go through with the business . |
| 21 | I knew that it did not , and could not , but for the next week I found myself despairing as if it did . |
| 22 | In a prison-camp the world you wanted to get to was visible all the time and , although you did not live in it , you knew that it was only a matter of some barbed wire and a few yards away . |
| 23 | Not only was the world into which you wanted to escape there for you to see but you also knew that it was a practical possibility to reach it . |
| 24 | They 'd X-rayed my chest when any fool knew that it was the kidney that had had to come out . |
| 25 | None of his designs that we now possess was built , and my first thought was of regret that this should be so , but on reflection I knew that it was right . |
| 26 | I knew that it made , besides such things as textiles , the remarkable Oerlikon guns and that it was part of the Oerlikon-Buhrle Group , employing some 40 000 people , mostly in Europe , but also in the US and Japan . |
| 27 | The adrenalin was pumping but I knew that I could control it , knew that it was necessary to a good performance . |
| 28 | The team manager was well aware of it , knew that it was coming to a head , but took no action . |
| 29 | They walked on , thinking of This and That , and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap , which is sixty-something trees in a circle ; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four , not even when he tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it . |
| 30 | They all knew that it was a night drop into the ocean . |