Example sentences of "but i know [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I know that I was excited . |
| 2 | ’ Fräulein Silber gave a wintry smile , ‘ and her coach is keeping her heights dark , but I know that she is keeping the bar up . |
| 3 | But I know that , last night , he damn well nearly did for me ! ’ |
| 4 | I know about these pirate recordings and they cause a lot of trouble — this is something we have to be very careful about with our CD videos — but I know that sometimes there are things that we can never recapture and it is understandable that people will want to have them . |
| 5 | All three spoke as though the moment were of no real consequence , but I know that for Mother and for O at least it must have been a strange and moving moment . |
| 6 | I ca n't remember them all now , but I know that no speaking was allowed in the class-rooms , corridors or on the stairs ; no running anywhere indoors ; no borrowing of any kind ; all long hair had to be plaited ; indoor shoes were never to be worn outside , nor outdoor shoes inside , and there were specific shoes for games , gym , hockey and so on ; school uniform was strictly enforced , and hats compulsory . |
| 7 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 8 | I do not recall what kind it was , but I know that the next car to come into the dale was a bull-nosed Morris and that was owned by the Wallers . |
| 9 | I do not know when Elizabeth had first fallen under the spell , but I know that her friendship with Ivy did not begin until a year or two later . |
| 10 | But I know that there is not much time . |
| 11 | ‘ They say that they have nowhere else to go , but I know that facing the world on their own would be even more frightening . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But I know that the money will not last if you do not begin your studies this autumn . |
| 14 | For example : ‘ I will be sad that we wo n't all be together at Christmas , but I know that a holiday away is really what I need . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't know what it was about , but I know that it shocked me into the sort of terror that I did n't know I was capable of . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll be sorry to leave , but I know that whatever I did today I do n't have a chance of playing at Charlton on Saturday , or the week after . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I expect that experienced knitter will have tried most , if not all , of these but I know that there are lots of new knitters who have not . |
| 19 | But I know that he would wish the tournament to continue , and we , as sponsors of this great tournament , have a duty to the sporting public to carry on . ’ |
| 20 | Whether the lust for gold had mastered us , whether a hatred of the thieves suffused our outlook , whether their attempts to thwart it had not toughened our resolve I can not say : but I know that after the bomb had been thrown into our midst , we would , one and all , have died in agony rather than let the treasure fall into the enemy 's hands . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , you see , the thing is , there are very few people in our class or any group I 'm in [ O level ] that seem to go in for playing up the teachers , but I know that in some other classes there are . |
| 22 | I think it was 1964 , he thinks it was 1963 , but I know that we met in El Vino and hit it off immediately . |
| 23 | But I know that one day she 'll meet someone who 's worthy of her . |
| 24 | Besides , I want to protect the remains of my privacy ; I do n't want to appear cold-hearted or stubborn ; but I know that when I try to make my life give me its answers to how I have come to my current concerns , I ca n't do it without feeling that I am on the edge of a dangerous fiction of self-description . |
| 25 | but I know that quite often they |
| 26 | He asks me about my safari , but I know that what happens out there is of no interest to him . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But I know that he does n't love me , and despite that , he asks me to marry him ! ’ |
| 29 | But I know that it 's wrong . |
| 30 | I like to think my husband would be devastated by my untimely demise , but I know that he would not be left short of cash to buy black ties and Kleenex . |