Example sentences of "the [noun] i know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time of the afternoon I knew only Lisabeth would be home , so I was n't too worried . |
| 2 | Like the driver I knew where we were going without being told . |
| 3 | When the studios were built , I wanted to record some of the songs I knew when I was young and I wanted to record them the way I wanted to hear them . |
| 4 | When I visited Estella 's London home , I found she had gone to stay with Miss Havisham , and so , leaving Magwitch in Herbert 's care , I went by coach to the town I knew so well . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps I could teach him some of the things I know instead ? ’ suggested the Bookman . |
| 6 | It was something you could see , you know , I mean a lot of the things I knew anyway and knowing them is a different problem from actually putting them right . |
| 7 | A little fluttery , but positively macho beside the Queen of the Frocks I knew so well . |
| 8 | The jokes I know absolutely vulgar . |
| 9 | The moment I touched the ground I knew why — the excessive ( to me — but normal to Tiree residents ) wind whipped me and my heavily laden briefcase into the lounge where Peter McMillan , Manager of Scarinish Branch offered me the relative calm of his car . |
| 10 | If many of Hewlett 's correspondents felt as Mrs Lowndes did , this explains why Hewlett 's letters as edited by Laurence Binyon ( 1925 ) make such unexciting reading ; she herself records that of the three hundred letters printed by Binyon there was only one ‘ which I felt to be characteristic of the man I knew so well ’ . |
| 11 | The men I knew just did n't give their wives presents for no reason . |
| 12 | The men I know just do n't give their wives gifts for no reason . |
| 13 | If you think of the environment Gerry Conlon was in when he was wrongfully arrested — that world of squats and lodging houses and casual labour — that 's the world I knew when I was younger . |
| 14 | They were a totally different set of people from the ones I knew before . |
| 15 | I mean I 'll go out and do my bit in the way I know how and I leave him behind . |
| 16 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |