Example sentences of "[pers pn] knew [adv] [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew immediately what your message meant : ‘ If you do n't pay up , one slash is all it takes . ’ ’ |
| 2 | I knew immediately what I wanted to call the rose , and asked her there and then . |
| 3 | I knew immediately what they were , she could n't very well deny it . ’ |
| 4 | I knew exactly what I was looking for , they had to be here somewhere , the one and only pair of knickers left uncontaminated in that disastrous load at the launderette , the stuff that had got washed along with that bargain-price bright-pink non-fast Indian-cotton mini-skirt from C&A . |
| 5 | But in 1976 , when Jean Darnall gave me this advice , I knew exactly what she meant and I knew that what she recommended was exactly what I wanted to do . |
| 6 | I knew exactly what he meant , and I felt a seething of anger at his suggestion . |
| 7 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 8 | And when they brought the key , I knew exactly what it was — a left-luggage locker-key . |
| 9 | And I knew exactly what it was you they were talking about ! |
| 10 | Perhaps I knew already what the answer would be — that I must cut myself free from him . |
| 11 | After he 'd gone Dad said he would consider what Mr Vulcan had said but I knew already what I wanted and I knew Dad would n't object . |
| 12 | I knew instinctively what had happened . |
| 13 | I knew roughly what I was looking for and I found it on the floor under a seat frame from which the seat had been removed . |
| 14 | Even then I knew roughly what I was going to try and do though I had no idea how to go about it . |
| 15 | weather and I knew precisely what they meant . |
| 16 | Notts in this first half are going to be as they like to be , attacking the Kop end , a Kop end which is utterly deserted because Pisa have n't brought any fans with them but they 've brought a very large following of journalists , and as I said in the initial two-way with Martin , there has been a language barrier between them and me , but when they pointed to the weather and all shivered together , I knew precisely what they meant . |
| 17 | ‘ Give what ? ’ she asked , although she knew well what he meant . |
| 18 | She knew just what she had to do , knew the music perfectly , could sing it in her sleep , but now she felt , for the first time in years , she could bring something of herself , her personality , into her singing . |
| 19 | She knew exactly what she wanted to say but the words would n't come . |
| 20 | She knew exactly what that was . |
| 21 | But also , as a doctor , she knew exactly what it was . |
| 22 | With that intuitive understanding she had always had with him , she knew exactly what he meant . |
| 23 | She knew exactly what she was doing and where she was going . |
| 24 | She knew exactly what we did and who we worked for . |
| 25 | She knew exactly what she wanted , and where she wanted to go . " |
| 26 | She knew exactly what was going to happen now — she would lose her baby and he would commend her . |
| 27 | Oh , if only she knew exactly what she did want ! |
| 28 | For the first time in her life , she knew exactly what she was doing , as her body and brain melted together in a harmony of desire . |
| 29 | She knew exactly what Luke 's response would be . |
| 30 | She knew exactly what it was , of course , she thought sleepily . |