Example sentences of "knew [pers pn] was a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she kissed me , and called me her dear Blanche , and said I knew she was a good girl , and very strong , and not foolish . |
| 2 | The sergeant knew she was a tough woman and had few weaknesses . |
| 3 | I know my mother would n't agree and she would be even mad if she knew he was a black boy . |
| 4 | Indeed , to stay at the Langham was such a mark of having arrived in the world , that in a nineteenth century fraud case , a witness would declare : ‘ I knew he was a perfect gentleman . |
| 5 | He had heard many stories about Yanto , and knew he was a rough handful . |
| 6 | He knew he was a good horseman — no one had dared to tell him otherwise ! |
| 7 | I knew he was a good client of ours . |
| 8 | They knew he was a disqualified driver . |
| 9 | It was quite apparent that he knew he was a doomed man . |
| 10 | Hein — you knew he was a qualified dentist ? |
| 11 | He knew he was a dead man , no matter what happened — it was just a matter of time . |
| 12 | Of course we knew he was a celebrated painter , everyone did , and I think the neighbourhood felt quite disappointed when by moving down here he became less celebrated . |
| 13 | I knew it was a two-way thing . |
| 14 | ‘ What I 'd like you to know is that when it was all over and Peter was back from America , the grave-diggers were down here on their bended knees begging him for forgiveness because they knew it was a nasty business and said had they known at the time they 'd have had nothing to do with it . ’ |
| 15 | She knew it was a modern world and that it happened to people all the time and that it was n't such a big deal — medically or culturally . |
| 16 | ‘ I suppose they knew it was a friendly house . ’ |
| 17 | He knew it was a hopeless task — like assembling a jig-saw puzzle without the picture to serve as a guide — but still he could not abandon it . |
| 18 | ’ I knew it was a good script , ’ he recalls . |
| 19 | You had to watch but if people came to your door in a in a state that er you knew it was a genuine case , you would probably help them out you know . |
| 20 | No-one was ever able to locate the elusive and possibly mythical teenager who supposedly became pregnant in Mr Moore 's constituency merely to jump the housing queue , but still he knew it was a serious issue . |
| 21 | Shrew Shrewsbury try to play the ball forward , runs after it but he knew it was a lost cause and the ball is through to Bobby . |
| 22 | ‘ I meant what I said on the plane , ’ she reminded him stiffly , even though she knew it was a wasted effort . |
| 23 | The plaintiff could not prove that the defendant knew it was a secret process either because of its nature or because he had been specifically told that it was and Vaisey J pointed out that if it were really secret it was surprising that the defendant 's employment had brought him into contact with it ; he had been to prison in the past . |
| 24 | I knew it was a deliberate attempt from the word go to bring the band down . |
| 25 | He did it , though he knew it was a needless precaution . |
| 26 | Abu Dabi was the place I was trying to think of I knew it was a funny name |
| 27 | ‘ Maybe she 'd let you enter with me , if she knew it was a true vocation . ’ |
| 28 | Tony Jacklin tried to persuade him to reconsider because he knew it was a bad decision . |
| 29 | The crowd were very patient because they knew it was a difficult game for us . ’ |