Example sentences of "know that he could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did everyone know that he could n't read ? |
| 2 | We do know that he could n't have used a beehive . |
| 3 | ‘ They did n't know that he could n't have drawn a proper furrow let alone a real good 'un if he had n't got his owd pipe a-drawin' in his mouth ! |
| 4 | I think he just wanted to know that he could . |
| 5 | It pleased me immeasurably to know that he could sense the difference now , the promise of fulfilment , which would be the sweeter , it seemed to me , for having been so long deferred . |
| 6 | ‘ I know that he could n't have done owt to Mr Bishop , though ! 'Cos he was n't here on Friday . |
| 7 | He had scarcely known Maggie , could not have known that he could not have chosen a better treat than this mysterious park , with its vast statues carved out of the living rock : the huge-mouthed cave with its mighty teeth , the vast stone giant , his shoulders visible through bushes a hundred yards away , half hidden in greenery ; and above all , the great carved stone dragon with its broken wings , and wild Chinese eyes . |
| 8 | She had always resented Luke , and feared the way he made her feel — because she must have sensed from the beginning the power he could and did have over her ; because he had deprived her of himself when he had had her dismissed from that very first job back in South Africa ; because something had led him to misjudge and despise her , and he was unable to see the truth ; because she had always known that he could break her heart … |
| 9 | He begged permission to look inside it , which the airport authorities granted , knowing that he could neither fly nor navigate . |
| 10 | Preston said to William , knowing that he could not possibly have forgotten , whatever else conveniently slipped his memory . |
| 11 | He waved to the bartender , knowing that he could n't expect her to make any coherent reply to such compliments . |
| 12 | He knew that he could be accused of acting like some less satisfactory prime ministers in this constitutional field , that is , choosing an archbishop of his own lay power without the approval of the Church ; and he disliked that situation . |
| 13 | Even Denis Healey knew that he could make the pips squeak only after the mortgage has been paid . |
| 14 | He knew that he could be an ice-cube at times — God knows , Beethoven , Mozart and Wagner had not been easy to live with either — and Alexia took the chill off him . |
| 15 | And he knew that he could n't continue avoiding her — or not without catching pneumonia , he thought , and smiled at his own joke . |
| 16 | But Selznick knew that he could not hand over the selection process to assistants . |
| 17 | Something about them made him feel deeply afraid , but he knew that he could n't just stand there . |
| 18 | He had achieved great things for God but he knew that he could not claim the credit . |
| 19 | Ceauşescu knew that he could not both meet the miners ' demands and achieve his economic targets . |
| 20 | She now knew that he could never satisfy her , but was not prepared to dislike him just for that . |
| 21 | Had the house actually left the ground , he knew that he could n't have felt more strange than he did at this moment , or more afraid : there was someone here . |
| 22 | He knew that he could have carried the coffee into the comparative serenity of his study but he had n't the courage to get to his feet . |
| 23 | Nixon , one of the fiercest anti-Communists and " cold warriors " of the 1940s and 1950s , knew that he could not easily be accused of being " soft " on communism when he tried to lessen tension with Russia and with Communist China . |
| 24 | On one level I knew that Robert had been unfaithful to Lili and on another I knew that he could n't possibly have been . |
| 25 | The Fontanellatesi knew where his real sympathies lay , and they knew that he could not refuse to do as he was asked . |
| 26 | In the depths of her soul she knew it , knew that he could hurt her , badly . |
| 27 | Fran closed her eyes , willing the frantic pounding of her pulse to slow , but when his fingers completed their slow journey and came to rest at the base of her neck she knew that he could feel every frantic beat . |
| 28 | She also knew that he could die within five minutes . |
| 29 | When George saw that Curley was attacking Lennie , George allowed Lennie to fight back because he knew that he could not do everything for Lennie . |
| 30 | She senses what he 's after : she ca n't exactly explain it , but she knows that he could take her away . |