Example sentences of "knew that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How long he lay against Mick he did n't know ; he only knew that between the sounds he had been emitting and the wash of tears that seemed to have drained him dry , a voice within him had kept repeating : ‘ She killed your father , Mick ; she killed your father . |
| 2 | Eve knew that through these doors next week would come girls who only intended to use university as part of their social life . |
| 3 | Erm Isaac Azimov writes er , rather amusingly about this , he says why did , why did Weismann bother , he said Weismann was Jewish , of course , Weismann knew that since time immemorial , er , Jewish little boys have been having their foreskins chopped off , Weismann only had to look at his own children , when they were born , to see that even Jewish little boys are born with foreskins . |
| 4 | Twice , White lost European finals to him ; , on the last occasion , in 1988 , he lost on a rather harsh penalty , but knew that at last he had the measure of the Frenchman . |
| 5 | People knew that at Kawz and at Hawaria , their grandfathers had fought and died as Zuwaya ; the history in poems , which have a wide audience , was also more general , and concerned Zuwaya as a whole rather than segments of Zuwaya . |
| 6 | He was good at them , linking all the stories together with more gum and spit , reintroducing the characters with , ‘ You know that bad bad man who was caught naked in the bathing hut ? ’ , as in a wild soap opera , until he knew that at the end of her day spent sucking on dusty brain juice , her maddening mouth would inevitably say , ‘ Hey , Changez , husband or whatever you are , do n't you know any more about that politician geezer that got thrown into jail ? ’ |
| 7 | She knew that at least the dress — given to her by Monsieur de Levantiére as a farewell gift — looked right . |
| 8 | He knew that at night , alone in his room , he should be crying , but no tears came ; that in itself was strange , for he 'd often cried about small things , such as seeing a fox with its leg in a trap , still alive , its eyes begging for release . |
| 9 | Some people speak , and write , through a blur of adjectives as if they secretly knew that at heart of their hackneyed attempts to articulate is nothing . |
| 10 | Even when I could n't rightly understand him , I always knew that at the heart of his talk there was summat good — sum mat true . |
| 11 | Such assets as Virgin had were almost meaningless : not the bricks and mortar so reassuring on the balance sheet , but the more nebulous assets of music and publishing copyrights tangible enough , perhaps , to people who understood the music business , and knew that at any given moment Virgin could raise millions if they so chose ; less comprehensible to a bank where customers were still greeted by frock-coated doormen . |
| 12 | Which the authorities could not understand , because everyone knew that at lunchtime Mr Wolski always went down to the benches by the Cages and ate his sandwiches looking at the eagles . |
| 13 | But letters could be dealt with and bills paid by anyone who had access to the flat , and we knew that at least one other person had a key . |
| 14 | They were already in the sala , having a pre-dinner drink , when Maggie walked in , and she knew that at least one pair of dark eyes watched her sardonically . |
| 15 | I knew that at the end of the four sets of treatment I would have the final scan . |
| 16 | But they knew that on the left lay the Waste ; and that somewhere west of the Waste , no one knew precisely where , was the Great Camp of the outlaws . |
| 17 | I knew that on the whole the U-boat commanders had fought the submarine war cleanly , the only major exception being the murders committed by the U.852 and her captain , Lieutenant-Commander Eck . |
| 18 | I knew that on this trip my husband would go on to Oman and Cairo before returning home . |
| 19 | McCreery knew that on the following day his HQ would have difficult talks with AFHQ representatives , who would arrive with a brief which , for operational reasons , would present 5 Corps with great difficulties . |
| 20 | I knew that on the island one was driven back into the past . |
| 21 | Desmond was one of those dominant husbands who knew that on one or two issues he faced adamantine resistance , and understood when to give in . |
| 22 | For example , you might have been a mere , much more happy about making a sacrifice for your brother , giving him a sweet , if you knew that on other occasions , he would give one to you , and because you are related to each other . |
| 23 | She had read of Cupid , the little god of love , and of his wicked darts piercing the heart at the moment of understood love , and she had laughed a little at the idea ; but one of them had struck home at last , and she knew that on the two previous occasions when she had previously and disastrously thought herself in love it had not been love at all … |
| 24 | Ramsey knew that as a bishop he had a teaching ministry , and that this needed a journal which was more than diocesan news . |
| 25 | She knew that as a Deacon she was still an uncommon enough phenomenon in the Church to evoke curiosity . |
| 26 | If only they knew that to him their revelations were but bricks in the house he was trying to build , rungs on the ladder of discovery , twisted curve-edged pieces in the current puzzle ! |
| 27 | Like all the children born shortly after the Great War , we knew that to our parents , the war was the great divide . |
| 28 | Jess knew that to be true . |
| 29 | She knew that to outside eyes they were behaving like two civilised adults , even though that was the last thing she felt . |
| 30 | She knew that to be true , though Emily meant the world to her . |