Example sentences of "that [pers pn] knew [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Instead , now that I knew where she was living , I contacted my solicitors and instructed them to start divorce proceedings .
2 Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice .
3 She did not consciously know that , with Luke 's swift co-operation , she had rid him of his tie , nor that she was left unaided to tear at his shirt buttons with frantic fingers ; and it was only through her senses that she knew when she came to hard flesh and soft springy hair , her palm sliding damply over his chest , fingers catching luxuriously in the light tangle of hair covering it .
4 So that she knew when he stood up and walked round to drop to his knees beside her .
5 She replied that she knew where he was but she did n't want to discuss it .
6 She began to feel that she knew where she was , a little : and after a while she too began to talk .
7 He started keeping Fred and himself to timetables , so that she knew where she was , and cut out eating with Fred after the show or seeing him in the daytime at weekends .
8 After all , ’ said the kind-looking gentleman in his pleasant voice , ‘ they were aware by then that you knew where they lived , and that there was a chance you 'd have them arrested . ’
9 It could be accomplished , I thought , by not worrying about the future , by taking things day by day , and our being perfectly honest with one another so that we knew where we were ; and loving .
10 ‘ He did n't realize he 'd dropped a brick when he admitted that he knew where we were going .
11 Now that he knew where he was the details of the room became familiar , and he knew at once what had wakened him , and strained his ears to hear it again .
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