Example sentences of "[that] i knew [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So thickly was the snow falling that I knew they could only just have been made , probably within the past five minutes . |
| 2 | I think that the real reason that I wanted to do Total recall was that I knew it might make me famous which then might help me get better parts . |
| 3 | I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right . |
| 4 | I would have to bite back my angry words — that better men than he had driven the jeep but that I knew he would share their fate . |
| 5 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 6 | Also , my brother was such a good trumpet player that I knew I would never be as good as he was , so there was that in there too : like , ‘ God , I do n't really want follow in this guy 's footsteps . ' ’ |
| 7 | I was shaken by its totality , its danger — here was a being that I knew I would die for without hesitation . |
| 8 | " I had chest pains so bad that I knew I would be unable to give 100 per cent . " |
| 9 | That was n't the case with me , I just wanted the opportunity to do something that I knew I could do . |
| 10 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 11 | It was n't until the party that I knew I could n't pretend to myself any longer . |
| 12 | It was then that I knew I could have a fight on my hands : If the manager sided with him and asked me to move a few feet away then I 'd have no choice but to join in the squabble . |