Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] knew [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Two others were journalists he knew already . |
| 3 | As he turned and looked into her eyes he knew instinctively there was no need to worry on that score . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He took her to the biggest house , whose womenfolk she knew well . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A little fluttery , but positively macho beside the Queen of the Frocks I knew so well . |
| 11 | He reached out for something outside his prison and found The Rights of Man , he concentrated on passages he knew well and summoned them up word for word . |
| 12 | Most of the other passengers I knew only vaguely , by face more than by name . |
| 13 | In particular the special garden for the blind was her favourite , where she would gently rub the sweet-scented leaves and herbs and flowers between her fingers and recall their names — the names she knew so well from the allotment we had had in South Shields . |
| 14 | The opportunity class teachers I knew either had some extra training and/or some special quality or flair . |
| 15 | Her eyes linked them until she went to pull together the curtains she knew very well had never met properly . |
| 16 | Here I am , for Chrissakes , about to dine alongside two people who knew Claudia Cohn-Casson , in surroundings she knew well , in an ambience which I know ail too well , although I have only just arrived . |
| 17 | When he came back and saw the cages and animal houses he knew immediately that he would never be able to go inside one of them again . |
| 18 | But there were some rules he knew better than she ever would . |
| 19 | The men I knew just did n't give their wives presents for no reason . |
| 20 | It gave them confidence to introduce these materials to children , but in the teacher 's own way and taking into account the particular environment , needs and potential of the children they knew best . |
| 21 | They were a totally different set of people from the ones I knew before . |
| 22 | All the 30-something women we knew then seemed about the limit beyond which you went into suits and Burberry raincoats . |
| 23 | Just as the company was about to enter a crisis period through shortage of water , Meirion Rowlands , then Production Director , thought to use copper divining rods to search for new sources of water in the hills he knew so well . |
| 24 | I saw him to the door and watched him pace away along the streets he knew better than most others in London . |
| 25 | Beyond the few meadows on this apron of land that girdled the house on the lochside , the hills rose again , hills as individual and familiar to her as people , whose slopes and habits she knew intimately , walking them year in , year out with her father , the gun he had taught her to use broken carefully in the crook of her arm . |