Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] knew [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that time of the afternoon I knew only Lisabeth would be home , so I was n't too worried . |
| 2 | I said I wanted it for an amateur production of James Saunders A Scent of Flowers — a play I knew well and which required a coffin to be positioned downstage during the entire action . |
| 3 | The concerns about what to wear , the latest haircuts and how to deal with acne were subjects I knew well — and I could identify with the girls ' interests too . |
| 4 | ‘ Reminds me of a horse I knew once , ’ the farmer said , ‘ long time ago . |
| 5 | Two others were journalists he knew already . |
| 6 | As he turned and looked into her eyes he knew instinctively there was no need to worry on that score . |
| 7 | But last month the Department of the Environment revealed that , out of more than 1500 large dams it knew about 191 have no known owner — and many more have no certificate of safety . |
| 8 | Then the seas settled a little , and a boat came , carrying a crew he recognised and a Skyeman he knew well , but who would not meet his eye . |
| 9 | I got talking to a Faber editor I knew slightly . |
| 10 | Before I reached my window I knew full well the terrible sight which surely awaited me . |
| 11 | As a schoolteacher she knew only too well the dance they led their parents . |
| 12 | Here these Cornish sappers dedicated themselves to the work they knew best , digging defensive trenches and building parapets as well as blowing up houses blocking the range of the gunnery . |
| 13 | They knew every day you , when you went on the rounds they knew just where to stop and start , especially the last pony I had . |
| 14 | Tolkien perhaps found such opinions in a work he knew well , King Alfred the Great 's personal translation of Boethius into Old English . |
| 15 | Whatsoever of thought or feeling came to him from England , or by way of English culture , his mind stood armed against in obedience to a password , and of the world that lay beyond England he knew only the Foreign Legion of France in which he spoke of serving . |
| 16 | ‘ … he said that a girl he knew once used to do it while in a handstand position . |
| 17 | He took her to the biggest house , whose womenfolk she knew well . |
| 18 | About Daniel 's Mum she knew very little . |
| 19 | The family moved to the middle of the country , a contrast to the northern industrial cities she knew so well and ‘ definitely warmer ’ than the West of Sheffield . |
| 20 | When I visited Estella 's London home , I found she had gone to stay with Miss Havisham , and so , leaving Magwitch in Herbert 's care , I went by coach to the town I knew so well . |
| 21 | For one blinding moment she knew absolutely that Galileo should have died for his truth , and yet had also been right to retract because he had still not known one particle of the whole . |
| 22 | She spilt liquid things and broke hard ones ; she slipped on banana-skins in the street , and even in places she knew quite well she frequently lost her way . |
| 23 | Peters and Waterman found the excellent companies were those that kept to the business they knew best . |
| 24 | The progression from selling records by mail-order to retailing in shops , to running a record label , studios , publishing company — all was perfectly logical and obvious , allowing Branson and his colleagues to expand in the business they knew best . |
| 25 | Furthermore one can perhaps see the solution to which Tolkien , in his philological way , was drawn , namely to present the First Age as ‘ a complex of divergent texts interlinked by commentary ’ ( UT , p. 1 ) , the texts themselves being supposedly written by Men , of different periods , looking back across the ages to vast rumours of whose truth they knew only part . |
| 26 | Perhaps on another occasion , in another mood , he would have been more sympathetically disposed towards it , but at the moment it seemed merely the repetition , however well-prepared , of a diet he knew only too well . |
| 27 | A sound he knew too well . |
| 28 | It was something you could see , you know , I mean a lot of the things I knew anyway and knowing them is a different problem from actually putting them right . |
| 29 | Robin I knew well . |
| 30 | A little fluttery , but positively macho beside the Queen of the Frocks I knew so well . |