Example sentences of "she know from " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a long-service employee she knew from first-hand experience the contribution Mark had made to the expansion of the Corporation over the years . |
| 2 | The sleeping pills had left her feeling groggy ; she knew from experience that unless she rose immediately on waking , she would feel drugged throughout the day . |
| 3 | She knew from experience that he took everything seriously . |
| 4 | But she had said nothing , and she knew from the look on his face that he was thinking she was still bearing a grudge from the incident in the storeroom the previous night . |
| 5 | Now he did smile , and it changed him completely , lifting the lines of his face so that he appeared hardly older than herself , though she knew from Miss Beard that he was almost thirty . |
| 6 | She knew from thirty years ' experience that bullies were a breed apart . |
| 7 | Enya claims to be stubborn , sulky and contrary where her composition is concerned , but she knew from unfortunate personal experience the natural anarchy and entropy of bands and very rationally allowed Nicky and Roma 's professional advice to guide her in the right direction . |
| 8 | When she went into the kitchen , Philip was there , and she knew from his manner that he had something to say . |
| 9 | She knew from village gossip and her own observation that Harry Pascoe treated his second son cruelly . |
| 10 | Disproportionately she had longed , in the interminable wastes of adolescence , in the grey and monotonous steppes , and some of the longing had attached itself to this night , this one night of the year , when others ( she knew from school friends , from the radio , from novels ) , when others went to parties and celebrated whatever was about to be . |
| 11 | It had the same feel to it that she knew from the long hours she 'd spent experiencing the mass-market romantic slush that Madreidetic packed into their holos . |
| 12 | She knew from experience that if she started a conversation with the girls about anything other than business , it could go on for ever , and Christina did not have time to listen to Todney 's domestic problems this morning . |
| 13 | She knew from her first meeting with him that he could n't always understand written languages the way he could speech , but if he visited Earth so often it was probably reasonable to assume that he would know languages other than English . |
| 14 | Normally , although his massive body dwarfed her own , he showed her consideration in his bed , but she knew from the rare occasions when it had happened before that drinking heavily coarsened his sexual appetites . |
| 15 | Her partner 's passionate hobby was shooting , and she knew from their telephone calls that he had been spending his spare time at a sports club which had a range . |
| 16 | But she knew from experience that it was as dangerous for policemen to speak honestly to the public as for members of the royal family . |
| 17 | Being poor , she knew from experience , did not necessarily mean being without taste . |
| 18 | She knew from bitter experience how treacherous such feelings could be , and the blind alleyways down which they led . |
| 19 | She knew from that moment she had to be a Salvation Army officer . |
| 20 | She knew from her own experience that the whole person needed to be developed , not just a robot only capable of regurgitating examination fodder . |
| 21 | She knew from pictures in the Book of Instruction clandestinely glimpsed in her father 's library what to expect , approximately ; and she had seen animals ; but exactly what happened she could not imagine . |
| 22 | In the night its silence and its matt , pewter gleam were alike deceptive , suggesting languor and sleep , while she knew from her memories of day that it was rushing down its bed with a tigerish fury and force , so concentrated that it generated no ripples and no sibilance . |
| 23 | She had taught Alexandra all the history she knew from an intensely Scottish point of view , and French with a cramped and ladylike accent . |
| 24 | His expression was unreadable , but she knew from the hot breath flowing over her breasts that he was finding the procedure as erotic as she was . |
| 25 | She saw that Hilda 's hands were on her hips , and she knew from experience that this was a danger signal , but she went on , unintimidated . |
| 26 | Belinda said hello to one of them , Judy Stack , whom she knew from the nurses ' home , then sat on a rather uncomfortable chair in the corner as Faye was examined by a junior obstetrician . |
| 27 | She wanted to jump straight up from this padded and sheet-covered bench , once her blood donation was completed , and go up to Labour and Delivery to see , or at least hear about , Faye , but she knew from experience that giving blood left her drained and tired , and giving two hundred and fifty mils extra tonight would really sap her physical resources . |
| 28 | And although Theodora could think of no more innocent errand then her own , she knew from experience what a very long time the police require to digest even simple facts . |
| 29 | But she could n't just desert them , either ; for several members of the cast this play of Josh Thayer 's was the first decent break they 'd had , and she knew from dressing-room conversations just how much personal and emotional investment they 'd made in its success . |
| 30 | She knew from Devlin Parnham that the old count had been a hard man . |