Example sentences of "a [noun] i know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action . |
| 2 | ‘ Reminds me of a horse I knew once , ’ the farmer said , ‘ long time ago . |
| 3 | How long it continued as a workhouse I know not , but records were kept up till 1795 . |
| 4 | I do know about that , but this is someone else , a man I know slightly . |
| 5 | The position is , of course , quite different if the witness knows the person concerned well enough to say : ‘ I was hit by a man I know well and whose name is Jack Spratt . ’ |
| 6 | It was a man I knew quite well . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's a lovely evening , my dear Watson , ’ said a voice I knew well . |
| 8 | It is a river I know well , but a stretch I have never fished before , and when I see it I wonder why . |
| 9 | He relapsed into silence then , and because my mind was still trying to grapple with the politics of a country I knew very little about , I failed to ask him whether Gómez had made that flight on his own or if he had had a crew with him . |
| 10 | Ross , on his return to Britain , went back into the new route business as an outsider to the establishment scene — a position I know only too well . |
| 11 | I will ask a family I know well , out in the country , if you can stay with them . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ When I was an accountant I knew when I was going to be busy well in advance . |
| 13 | As an historian I know how valuable a commodity — and I mean valuable in terms of hard cash — it ought to be in these days when the whole of life , our own present as well as the past , seems to reach us pre-packaged in the form of interviews and telly-probe . |