Example sentences of "[that] [pron] knew [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beating the bounds , when the parishioners walked round the parish boundaries to ensure that everyone knew where they were in case of dispute , was associated with the Rogationtide crop blessing . |
| 2 | Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings . |
| 3 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
| 4 | The wind was high when I knocked at her door , and I heard a voice from within that I knew not what to make of , though it sounded like the lullaby of a Mother to her Baby . |
| 5 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 6 | But I decided fairly quickly that once the reins were in somebody else 's hands , and that somebody knew exactly what they were doing , there was no point in coming back . ’ |
| 7 | She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it . |
| 8 | So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her . |
| 9 | She replied that she knew where he was but she did n't want to discuss it . |
| 10 | She began to feel that she knew where she was , a little : and after a while she too began to talk . |
| 11 | He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends . |
| 12 | She thought she knew herself very well , but faced with God she realized that she knew virtually nothing . |
| 13 | When they did converse , she said little and mostly listened ; it had only recently struck Angelica that she knew almost nothing more about Alina now than she had at the end of that first day . |
| 14 | After all , ’ said the kind-looking gentleman in his pleasant voice , ‘ they were aware by then that you knew where they lived , and that there was a chance you 'd have them arrested . ’ |
| 15 | The third reading , for instance , was slower than the first , despite the fact that you knew exactly what you were looking for . |
| 16 | It could be accomplished , I thought , by not worrying about the future , by taking things day by day , and our being perfectly honest with one another so that we knew where we were ; and loving . |
| 17 | Then , when we actually visit that place for the first time , a subconscious memory is triggered and we are convinced that we knew instinctively what it would look like . |
| 18 | Not necessarily : ‘ I do n't think I meant that even the people who have no caveats attached implied that they knew absolutely everything in the box . |
| 19 | ‘ He did n't realize he 'd dropped a brick when he admitted that he knew where we were going . |
| 20 | Now that he knew where he was the details of the room became familiar , and he knew at once what had wakened him , and strained his ears to hear it again . |
| 21 | He was sprawled in an armchair opposite and the expression on his face clearly told her that he knew exactly what she and Jennifer had been discussing . |
| 22 | Small wonder , then , that the Scotsman Sir George Douglas burst out , as the English ambassador Sir Ralph Sadler reported to Henry VIII on 13 October 1543 , that ‘ the world is so full of falsehood , that he knew not whom he might trust ! ’ . |
| 23 | He was diffident , seemingly vague , declaring a lack of knowledge and ignorance of education and of teaching , and that he knew only what he had learned through his own work as a painter . |
| 24 | By the time Louise returned to the kitchen to tell him that his mother was ready to go home Constance felt that he knew absolutely everything about her , but had revealed nothing of himself . |
| 25 | The fact that he knew absolutely nothing about the airline business was neither here nor there . |
| 26 | You know he 'd far prefer to have the cheap workforce that you could tell exactly and appear to know what he 's talking about , whereas the older men knew that he knew absolutely nothing . |