Example sentences of "[noun prp] knew [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite his brother 's joyous reception of this confidence , Edward knew a sense of foreboding . |
| 2 | Corbett knew the King loved his luxury , and Woodstock , a large , timbered building , was the pleasantest of royal palaces . |
| 3 | Ranulf had bruises and cuts on his hands , arms and legs but one of the others , a young man , had received a terrible slash across his stomach and Corbett knew the fellow would be dead very soon . |
| 4 | Waited for some kind of sign , a handclasp , a chaste kiss on the cheek , some sign that Lucy knew the meaning of this time and space . |
| 5 | Nichols knew every colour , texture and nuance he wanted and worked like hell to get it . |
| 6 | Frankie knew the drill . |
| 7 | John Laing Construction andn John Laing Services … the gantry manufacturers Secalt and Tirfor plus the consulting engineering partenrship Flint and Neil knew the gantry was dangerous before the accident and breached regulations under the Health and Safety Act . |
| 8 | Dr Jaffery knew the building as well as anyone and I much looked forward to going around it with someone who had studied it for so many years . |
| 9 | if you leave them in the pile fair enough and I think they can go to archive , but please can you re-title the contents page and the pages cos they 're not interview data it 's count data , er I would of thought by now Scott knew the difference between interview and account |
| 10 | Neither Owen nor Dewey Clarridge , the chief CIA man assigned to the contras , spoke Spanish ; North knew a bit from school . |
| 11 | Maggie knew the source of her own fear : in her anger she had so nearly , so very nearly , launched herself into the air , growling a dragon 's fury , sparks flying not from her eyes but from her mouth , raining blows from above , hovering over the teacher like St Michael over the devil . |
| 12 | The count suddenly stiffened , his midnight-black eyes narrowing to glittering points of light , and Maggie knew the game was up . |
| 13 | Springfield knew the flame of Grant 's life was flickering dangerously low , and that time was short . |
| 14 | Though Ronni knew the remark was hollow . |
| 15 | They were only one of many small groups Nguyen Seth took an interest in , but Duroc knew the Elder saw Paris as an important flashpoint in the coming deluge and so they required more personal attention than similar factions in Johannesburg , Puerto Belgrano , Teheran , Shanghai , Mexico City , Malmo , Berlin , Belfast , Genoa or Birmingham . |
| 16 | Fergus knew the stories ; he knew how it was whispered that once inside the Prison of Hostages no one ever returned to the world of Men , but to Fergus , who had led the Fiana from the age of eighteen , and who knew the secrets and the devices and the weaknesses of half the ancient fortresses in Ireland , no prison was ever sealed so utterly and so completely that there was not a way out of it . |
| 17 | Mr Hudson knew the box intimately and had known Aubrey Clark well . |
| 18 | ‘ Johnny Giles knew the game inside out and could motivate players . |
| 19 | Sharpe knew the panic could not be controlled here , where the French columns filled the air with menace , but perhaps the sturdy walls of Gemioncourt would give these gunners some necessary reassurance . |
| 20 | The Government might fool the British public by denying the atrocity stories , but the Army in Ireland knew the truth , the newspapers knew , the people knew . |
| 21 | He was dressed casually in narrow white trousers and a white short-sleeved shirt and Ruth knew the shirt would be silk . |
| 22 | Ethel knew a lot more about what the master would and would not think of doing to a young woman than Mr Eames did . |
| 23 | Now Grunte knew a limerick or two , having been regaled at supper ( Safeway 's chicken stroganoff with frozen beans ) by Marjorie , who had a fund of the milder ones . |
| 24 | Having lived in Deptford all his life , Albie knew every jabber , snorter , speed-freak and pot-head in sixteen square miles . |
| 25 | Eva knew a man on the local paper , the same co-operative journalist who got Charlie on the front page of the Bromley and Kentish Times , and he interviewed Dad . |
| 26 | Eve knew the battle had to be fought and won there and then before the other students arrived . |
| 27 | Mr Woodward knew the area well and there were no railways here at all ; there used to be many years ago and there are still signs of the old trackbed to be seen . |
| 28 | When Dastmalchi called and showed his hand , Tom knew the game was up . |
| 29 | But Wilson knew the answer without enquiring any further . |
| 30 | All Montparnasse knew the stories of Simone and Beatrice . |