Example sentences of "be [conj] [pron] knew [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sometimes thought how astonished , how appalled indeed , many of these women would be if they knew that these intra-uterine devices were not in fact contraceptives but abortifacients . |
| 2 | ‘ Made you afraid of men ? ’ he queried , and looked puzzled as to how that could be when he knew that , since leaving Ardis , she had been to bed with his cousin . |
| 3 | Adam found himself not at all sure what rates were but he knew that people who owned houses did pay them . |
| 4 | It 's cos we knew that otherwise you 'd be complaining . |
| 5 | The challenge with which we were faced on the day of the ‘ Fresh Start ’ Motion was that we knew that a very full House , which had come to hear the prime minister 's Maastricht statement , would deplete rapidly after he was finished , as the business to follow — a debate on the Earth Summit — was not very controversial . |
| 6 | ‘ Maybe what upset Dustin was that he knew that , although he was the better actor , Steve 's performance in Papillon was superior , ’ commented Norman Jewison , who had directed McQueen in The Cincinnati Kid and The Thomas Crown Affair , but who never worked with Dustin . |
| 7 | All I could think of was that I knew that a Lee Metford was the forerunner of the Lee Enfield .303 rifle and almost became standard issue to the British army before WW1 . |
| 8 | As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family . |
| 9 | It was because she knew that before the month was out she would have said a permanent goodbye to him that she was greedy to spend as much time with him as she could now . |