Example sentences of "knew [Wh det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But how many people even knew what a cellular phone was seven years ago . |
| 2 | Not of his talent — he always knew he was good and he always knew what a great songwriter and performer he was — but for instance , he was nervous of audiences . |
| 3 | I do n't suppose I even knew what a pirate was , but I remember it vividly . |
| 4 | Not everyone desired to mimic the magnificent pomp of the College of Arms ; others knew what a risky business this could be , for the College maintained a rigid overview of funerary practices countrywide , taking to task any family which emulated that type of funeral reserved by the rules of etiquette for those of nobler birth . |
| 5 | ‘ And when she noticed I had two other children with me she laughed and said she knew what a handful they could be . ’ |
| 6 | Scott explained the choice of a modern radio magazine format to report on the events of 1944 : they all knew what a modern programme was like , but had only heard extracts from wartime broadcasts . |
| 7 | I thought I knew what a pirate looked like — a very different person from this clean and smiling man . |
| 8 | the chap that I sent he thought he knew what a confined space was . |
| 9 | But she looked back to her own childhood and wondered where she had got the idea that she knew what a normal family would be like . |
| 10 | Victorian scientists were devoted to facts , and even more were the Gradgrinds for whom knowledge meant a multitude of facts , and who thought they knew what a fact is . |
| 11 | Marian and Izz had seen Tess moving house with her family , and knew what a difficult position she was in . |
| 12 | She went very rapidly indeed but she knew what a long morning it would seem to her mother lying there alone unable to move . |
| 13 | Rupert too had seemed glad to relinquish the hot water bottle and let her take over , though one never really knew what a man was feeling . |
| 14 | But she knew what a constant and life-deforming worry the money had been . |
| 15 | After all , she had nothing to go on apart from what Terry Lewis had told her , and she knew what a liar he was . |
| 16 | Only Shelley , Rosie and Miguel knew what a momentous day this was for them . |
| 17 | I knew what a pineapple |
| 18 | Sally Jones , the sports presenter , clearly knew what the plural of Grand Prix was . |
| 19 | Hau knew what the Khmer Rouge could do . |
| 20 | He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists . |
| 21 | We both knew what the other one meant but we never said it in so many words . |
| 22 | The right hand never knew what the left was doing . |
| 23 | He wished he knew what the time was . |
| 24 | Suddenly , without trying , he knew what the real Harriet Shakespeare would say . |
| 25 | Nina now knew what the expression ‘ squealing like a stuck pig ’ really meant . |
| 26 | Maggie knew what the older woman was driving at . |
| 27 | Implicitly , the Government was saying that it knew what the problems were , and how they could be tackled . |
| 28 | God alone knew what the traffic would be like on the freeway , through the mean streets of Edgware , down to the inferno that was the A406 , on through gloomy Tolworth and Chessington , out to the no-man's-land that was Leatherhead . |
| 29 | The battles in Russia , Africa and Normandy became mere words , to be heard punctually from the loudspeaker at three or four o'clock , from the English news-reader if German security was sufficiently relaxed , or from anybody who thought he knew what the next allotment of words was going to be about . |
| 30 | Now I knew what the doctor at the Centre thought of me , and he was n't far wrong . |