Example sentences of "knew how [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear Marje never knew how her ‘ faithful ’ lover felt about Meli , or whether she even knew this rival existed . |
| 2 | These smiths , towards the end of the first millennium AD , clearly knew how their metals would behave . |
| 3 | He knew how their voices would sound from above . |
| 4 | His idea was that this would make no difference to those who knew how they were going to vote anyway , but could sway the others ; the floating vote , I suppose . |
| 5 | But now she knew the names of the victims , she knew who had found them , she knew that the door had been unlocked , she knew how they had died , although surely he had n't mentioned the slitting of throats . |
| 6 | Liz knew how they were regarded : as a powerful couple who , by breaking the rules , had become representative . |
| 7 | If only the pros knew how they suffered . |
| 8 | Wordsworth probably never knew how his walks with Dorothy and Coleridge had been misrepresented by the garrulous old man , and would have been sorry to discover the truth . |
| 9 | They knew how his preoccupations with ‘ the high-flyers ’ and with discipline would affect themselves . |
| 10 | Probably , subconsciously or , I dare say , consciously , you knew how you would react if you had a baby and that is why you never wanted one . |
| 11 | I mean , I expect she knew how you felt about the only things worth having being the things you 'd worked hard for and earned for yourself , so you would n't want her to leave you the house ] But she did n't want you to think she 'd forgotten you , or that she was just being spiteful , or something … ’ |
| 12 | She said to Maurin : ‘ I never knew how you and Joseph decided which pictures went to the States and which were sold through your gallery . |
| 13 | CATHERINE I 'd be more pleased if I knew how you got in the door . |
| 14 | I even knew how you would look . |
| 15 | ‘ I imagine Dad knew how you 'd react to having Guy at Armscott . |
| 16 | But I always knew you were fiercely independent and I knew how you 'd react to my eternal presence if you realised I was there as a self-appointed bodyguard . ’ |
| 17 | Inside he knew he was very male : he wanted Carrie and he knew how he wanted her . |
| 18 | God , but she knew how he liked to be pleasured , taking care not to stale his nerves with repetition , but cajoling his juice into cells already brimming , until he was ready to come in blood , and be murdered by her work , willingly . |
| 19 | God only knew how he had tried to replace her in his thoughts and in his heart — striking relationships with one woman after another , lurching from one crisis to the next , building his business with her in mind … driving himself like a man demented and amassing a fortune , yet knowing all the time that he was striving for the impossible . |
| 20 | No one — not the Seven nor Hal Shepherd — knew how he really felt about the matter , only that he had refused to see Tolonen since that day ; that he had exiled him immediately and appointed a new General , Vittorio Nocenzi , in his place . |
| 21 | Clearly those calves had drained him and I knew how he felt . |
| 22 | Now Jenna knew how he could afford the great house outside Paris . |
| 23 | ‘ You knew how he could get if his acting was n't working out — it was about the only thing that could really bring him down . ’ |
| 24 | 1 knew how he felt , for in an operation like this nerves take over and you rest so heavily upon the skill of the dispatcher that you ask his permission even to breathe . |
| 25 | I knew how he felt . |
| 26 | And he got out of there fast , before she could see it , some masculine fear in him that if she knew how he felt she would use his vulnerability against him . |
| 27 | She knew how he felt and shivered in reaction . |
| 28 | He knew how he wanted the last scene to look . |
| 29 | If we knew how it was produced , for example not by moving a pencil round on one end of a taut thread , but along one fixed at both ends , we could conclude that it really is an ellipse and not a circle . |
| 30 | When he was forced to leave Arabia his sense of loss was enormous : ‘ As the plane … swung out to sea , I knew how it felt to go into exile . ’ |