Example sentences of "knew [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ultimate warning over ouija comes from a high-ranking chaos magician who knew I was writing this book . |
| 2 | I was so high on adrenalin that for all I knew I was talking utter rubbish . |
| 3 | She taught in a health club ; aerobics , that kind of thing , and the next we knew she was wearing hot pants on a street corner in New York and strutting her stuff at the cars . |
| 4 | Sweeping waves of desire were pitching Sarella headlong to the point where she knew she was leaving common sense behind . |
| 5 | Jitters knew she was doing two people a favour , because Fat Juanita got depressed when the johnny-passing-throughs left her downstairs in the parlour with her knitting and gave all the custom to Gretchen , Connie Calzone , Margaret Running Deer and the Games Mistress . |
| 6 | Another neighbour , Dr Charles Wright , said : ‘ We knew they were having marital difficulties , but Jane would n't tell anyone why she wanted a divorce . ’ |
| 7 | Apart from the political overtones and undertones , Nicholson knew he was breaking new ground with one specific sex scene in which he showed full-frontal nudity and a fairly complete filming of the sex act itself , still unheard of in the movies , in spite of the musical Hair . |
| 8 | But it 's no way , I mean it was a really wet morning at quarter to seven , it had been raining , and he was right behind a lorry , and he , he , the lorry went to go one way and the he did n't go back because he knew he was going one way and the guy was going the other , he just started to go round to go to the left and bike was just there , he had no way of seeing him or he . |
| 9 | Jasper knew he was allowed extreme latitude in almost everything he did . |
| 10 | I felt the world beginning to drift into the distance again , but I knew what was happening this time and got my head down quickly . |