Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] knew [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I realized I knew almost nothing about his background .
2 When the car stopped I knew exactly where we were .
3 Sometimes it seemed I knew more about my guests than they did themselves .
4 The hand of friendship , extended so warmly by so many , was rudely brushed aside by those who believed they knew best .
5 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 .
6 ‘ She 's not here , ’ he told her with a mocking ring to his tone which showed he knew exactly what she was thinking .
7 At which point she insisted I knew more ( true enough ) and therefore should take over the project !
8 I thought I knew already , and to give this knowledge an official seal of approval .
9 I always thought I knew more , felt more , understood more .
10 Afterwards I felt ashamed that I thought I knew better than they did , especially when they were doing everything for free .
11 I thought I knew that much about the country .
12 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 .
13 It was clear that her father had been wrongly advised and Emily thought she knew exactly who was responsible .
14 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 .
15 It meant they knew exactly where to go looking for them . ’
16 Nobody felt they knew enough about Sweden to agree or disagree .
17 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 .
18 They thought they knew better , and they were , in turn , thought to know better .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 It was a trick , a way of helping his mother , and a cruel experiment because he thought he knew best .
22 Most of the older boys agreed with Jack and believed that Piggy was a middle-aged wet blanket because he always thought he knew best about everything .
23 Because he was on the spot , and had established a surprising , and surely almost heretical , chain of friendships there on the border , he thought he knew better than these older and cooler heads in London .
24 It made news when Victor Headley sold 10,000 copies of Yardie earlier this year and then went into hiding because some guys thought he knew too much about their business .
25 But do we really know any more about the animal kingdom now than Pliny thought he knew then ?
26 With a small smile that proved he knew very well what she had been thinking , he went out , and she tried to relax her tense muscles .
27 She wished she knew more about police procedures .
28 Loretta wished she knew more about that .
29 She wished she knew more about painting ; the name of Melanie 's mother meant nothing to her .
30 Robson , who was taunted by cruel headlines like ‘ In the name of God , go ! ’ during his stormy years in soccer 's most unforgiving job , said he knew exactly how Taylor must be feeling after the Norwegian nightmare .
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