Example sentences of "but i know [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I knew that it was time to leave , and we said goodbye to them on New Year 's Eve . |
| 2 | But I knew that it was no massive dental operation in progress but that the sluice itself was blocked by leaves , that the water going into the pipe which fed the turbine was at a minimum and that if I did n't get up and deal with the problem the turbine would shut down and the melin would be pretty cold in the morning . |
| 3 | Soon I , too , was very distressed , but I knew that it was going to be dead within a few hours , and I was helpless . |
| 4 | But I knew that it would be difficult to persuade Jimbo that he had to work at the exercises : yet if the treatment were to succeed , it had to be him — Jimbo himself — who , in the end , would reopen the pathway of nerves between brain and muscle . |
| 5 | It 's been a lot of hard work but I knew that it would be when I first came on to the Tour . |
| 6 | I was very tired but I knew that I must look out for a trap . |
| 7 | The adrenalin was pumping but I knew that I could control it , knew that it was necessary to a good performance . |
| 8 | I left the hospital with Drew 's warning eating away at my subconscious , but I knew that I must keep faith with Toby and talk to Froggy 's sister . |
| 9 | But I knew that he would n't use the knife until the ship was safely on the beach . |
| 10 | He never said anything , but I knew that he knew , because he was nicer to me than he had ever been before . |
| 11 | To have asked him to be a godfather had crossed my mind ; but I knew that he already held this office in plurality . |
| 12 | But I knew that you wanted me to talk to you whether you wanted me to or not ! |
| 13 | I did n't have the faintest idea how this girl could help me but I knew that she was going to try . |
| 14 | It 's a difficult decision but I knew if I married out there , well , there is a certain loneliness , yet going back to English life is unsatisfactory . |
| 15 | I was told I could n't , but I knew if I did n't obey the order I would be put on report and would see the governor anyway . |
| 16 | How we managed without all these aids — in fact by merely buying a coffin and getting on with it — I ca n't imagine , but I know that we were lucky to be living in the UK and not the US , where the open coffin , or at least one quarter open at the head end , is de rigueur . |
| 17 | I think it was 1964 , he thinks it was 1963 , but I know that we met in El Vino and hit it off immediately . |
| 18 | I 'm not so keen on that but I know that they have to attract young people as well . |
| 19 | But I know that they are secretly changing the negatives of the photographs . |
| 20 | They have asked for two thousand pounds , the Centre have asked for two thousand pounds from all County Councils , but I know that they would accept less if we negotiate that , a lower figure . |
| 21 | ’ Fräulein Silber gave a wintry smile , ‘ and her coach is keeping her heights dark , but I know that she is keeping the bar up . |
| 22 | Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't know who she is but I know that she exists . ’ |
| 24 | I do not know why my hon. Friend is not here today , but I know that she is a very hard-working , committed hon. Member . |
| 25 | I was a virgin when we married , but I know that she had been with other men before me . |
| 26 | But I know that I was excited . |
| 27 | Personally I am strongly committed to a primitive Christianity , but I know that I can not return to the total world-view of the primitive church . |
| 28 | Erm , and i i , I think people quite often feel very bad when they try to stop smoking , I I ha , used to smoke about forty a day and I 've now succeeded in stopped for about four years , but I know that I did have several failures and whe when when you try to stop and and fail you feel extremely bad and low and depressed about yourself , and people probably need quite a lot of support . |
| 29 | There are drawbacks to the house and sometimes we think about moving again , but I know that I could n't leave that garden . ’ |
| 30 | The physics baffles me , the philosophy bores me — but I know that I would take about seven years for me to write out all the digits in a statement of the odds against encountering another ship in Highlight . |