Example sentences of "[noun prp] knew [adv] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Grubb knew well enough that Algy dreaded her visits , and to let her off the trial of breakfasting with her mother he had installed a complicated route of strings and pulleys that led from her second-storey bedroom to the basement . |
| 2 | Tilda knew very well that the river could be dangerous . |
| 3 | ‘ The theory we all had was that Richard knew very well that women worked twice as hard for half the price , ’ as one girl put it . |
| 4 | Benny knew very well that her mother 's day was far from full . |
| 5 | She said it as if it was a joke , but Alan knew perfectly well that she meant it from the bottom of her heart . |
| 6 | As he soaped Miranda 's back , Adam knew perfectly well that she was about to propose to him again . |
| 7 | ‘ Damian knew right away that it had to be Japan or nothing . |
| 8 | Ian knew perfectly well that his father loathed being called prof , disliked intensely the way the boy went between the bathroom and his room with his towel flung over his shoulder so that he could flaunt his nakedness . |
| 9 | The proposal by the then second lieutenant was addressed directly to the Commander-in-Chief Middle East , as Stirling knew full well that ‘ going through channels ’ would be a total waste of time . |
| 10 | This , Miss Miggs explained , was because her hand had become too shaky to form the letters clearly , but Christine knew perfectly well that the old lady could n't write . |
| 11 | The extreme snobbery of this abstruse observation would have been rude had it been clear , for Lydia knew perfectly well that the Molesworths were the sort of people who picnicked in lay-bys , bringing little chairs and tables and using the car boot as a sort of sideboard . |