Example sentences of "knew [pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew I had to choose between the two , and I chose Doctor Jekyll . |
| 2 | Three weeks later at a meeting I knew I had to come to the point where I said yes or no to Jesus . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew I wanted to go into the application of research ’ , he said . |
| 4 | She knew she had ridden from the woods , screaming her grief … but she felt no grief , only a terrible inevitability , only cold acceptance . |
| 5 | AS A small girl Arden saw A Flea in Her Ear and knew she had to go into the theatre . |
| 6 | He cared enough about his loathsome , drunken and violent third wife , Mayo Methot , not to leave her until he knew she had gone to the furthest extremes to try and cure herself of the alcoholism that threatened to ruin both their lives . |
| 7 | She was part Mulholland on her mother 's side and she knew we had fallen from the middle class or , to be precise , that her mother had married down , even though she loved her father . |
| 8 | like , you know at that age I knew they had to go across the sea . |
| 9 | He knew he had gone down the road no cop should take , namely that of allowing the pursuit of a criminal to become a personal vendetta . |
| 10 | He desperately needed a drink but he knew he had to get through the next little while — ten minutes , half an hour , an hour — completely sober . |
| 11 | He knew he had come to the right person . |
| 12 | His plans were thwarted for some time as no-one knew what had happened to the trophies . |
| 13 | Neither knew what had happened to the upper-crust types , only that they would not be welcome now . |
| 14 | However , Chicot and his father had been killed by the Nazis , and no one knew what had happened to the girl . |
| 15 | At last we knew what had happened to the Archbishop 's special envoy . |
| 16 | He already knew what had happened to the arms . |