Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] knew the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course I knew the path led to the Camus na Dobhrain , and the lawyers had told me that the cottage was let to a girl , so I wondered why he was headed there . |
| 2 | In the back of his mind he knew the air in the Base was getting staler as the crisis progressed , but he could n't afford to worry about that now . |
| 3 | As a wee boy I knew the jargon of the Ayrshire pits , names and terms incomprehensible to the uninitiated . |
| 4 | As a boy he knew the names of the players in all the Welsh teams , the local teams , the world-beating teams . |
| 5 | She might have been daft in some ways , but she knew what was in and what was out , did Mary M. She knew the right clubs to go to . |
| 6 | Of course she knew the eyes had already assessed , swiftly categorising her purely on this evening 's evidence : a silly , empty-headed girl who did n't know any better . |
| 7 | Thankful that because of Rosie 's appendix she knew the quickest way to the hospital well , Shelley drove like a demon after the ambulance , and ran in as the casualty was stretchered in . |
| 8 | In that moment she knew the lovely air hostess had been someone special in his life . |
| 9 | These people were dangerous in their fury , and for a brief moment he knew the terror of the threat of physical attack , and he looked over his shoulder for an escape route . |
| 10 | ‘ As you know , my husband commanded 2 Para and as an Army wife I knew the Parachute Regiment for many years . |
| 11 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 12 | Although the telephone wires had been cut minutes before the assault he knew the authorities would still have been alerted and were almost certainly on their way to the prison at that very moment . |
| 13 | ‘ By the third round I knew the fight was going my way , ’ Leonard said . |
| 14 | ‘ It was just about the only song I knew the words to and was an impromptu thing , but it got things started . |
| 15 | CLIVE DID NOT like the idea of spending the early evening with Amelia Dorf 's crowd of goat rapists and rich sickies , but as an entrepreneur he knew the importance of maintaining a personal relationship with his best customers . |
| 16 | From long experience he knew the hangover would pass before it was time for him to stalk on stage and rebuke Hamlet for grieving overmuch for his father . |
| 17 | ‘ The next thing I knew the boys were arranging my stag night , ’ says the 39-year-old heating engineer , from Slough , Berkshire . |
| 18 | The next thing I knew the pilot was screaming ‘ Mayday ! ’ ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The next thing I knew the people in the stands behind the goal were jumping up and down . |
| 20 | She waited a long time ; so long , she must have fallen asleep , for the next thing she knew the room was in darkness , and Connor was in bed beside her . |
| 21 | And the next thing we knew the year was dead . |
| 22 | We 'd always be fighting coz we knew the older fellas had . |
| 23 | It was a good thing he knew the way so well . |
| 24 | By the second treatment I knew the routine . |