Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] knew [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized I knew almost nothing about his background . |
| 2 | Did I really think I knew better than the FO , full of clever people who were experts on British foreign policy ? |
| 3 | I mean I knew just as much as him . |
| 4 | When the car stopped I knew exactly where we were . |
| 5 | Sometimes it seemed I knew more about my guests than they did themselves . |
| 6 | The hand of friendship , extended so warmly by so many , was rudely brushed aside by those who believed they knew best . |
| 7 | For the sack itself — it was there , pillowing Hugh 's head and although Hugh knew what was in it and believed they knew also , he had taken care not to show it to them . |
| 8 | I do n't think she knew either . |
| 9 | Cecily the courtesan made constant barbed remarks , hinting she knew more about Watkin than his wife did . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's not here , ’ he told her with a mocking ring to his tone which showed he knew exactly what she was thinking . |
| 11 | It makes me wish I knew more . |
| 12 | International aid donors meeting in Paris this week to discuss cutting payments to that far-flung little country — once a bulwark against communism , today a relic of one-partyism — must wish they knew exactly what . |
| 13 | ‘ They comprise Ling 's housekeeping , ’ Silas informed her , his cool tone indicating he knew perfectly well that she was dodging the previous issue . |
| 14 | It was no longer necessary to pretend they knew less or more than they did . |
| 15 | At which point she insisted I knew more ( true enough ) and therefore should take over the project ! |
| 16 | I thought I knew already , and to give this knowledge an official seal of approval . |
| 17 | I always thought I knew more , felt more , understood more . |
| 18 | Afterwards I felt ashamed that I thought I knew better than they did , especially when they were doing everything for free . |
| 19 | I thought I knew that much about the country . |
| 20 | She had always been interested in beauty culture and hair-styling , so she took a job with a small hairdressing parlour in Stepney to learn the tricks of the trade and when she felt she knew enough , gave in her notice and advertised her services : Lady clients visited in the comfort and privacy of their own homes . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't realise you knew quite so much about the gee-gees , sir ? ’ |
| 22 | It was clear that her father had been wrongly advised and Emily thought she knew exactly who was responsible . |
| 23 | And we thought we knew enough about , at the moment there are still a lot of needs that people had already raised that had not been addressed . |
| 24 | It meant they knew exactly where to go looking for them . ’ |
| 25 | Nobody felt they knew enough about Sweden to agree or disagree . |
| 26 | Parents and families in the reception areas were shocked by what they saw and heard , incredulous that they could until then have been ignorant of the deprivation within a society which they thought they knew well enough . |
| 27 | They thought they knew better , and they were , in turn , thought to know better . |
| 28 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 29 | He felt he knew very little about her present feelings , which were so malign toward him and unmapped that it was as if he were seeing the back side of the moon . |
| 30 | It was a trick , a way of helping his mother , and a cruel experiment because he thought he knew best . |