Example sentences of "he knew [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His audience was the crew , and the language their own , but he knew we sensed the content of the canisters of venom dropped into our claustrophobic sanctum . |
| 2 | well he knew we did n't mean to sell it better do some of the ship tomorrow , where 's the , look you had one of the masts out , where is it ? |
| 3 | He was going to pick them up out of the gutter and establish them in the monied world where he knew they belonged . |
| 4 | It seemed incongruous to Dexter , inappropriate when he knew they had come to talk about violent death . |
| 5 | ‘ In what way ? ’ he asked softly , his tone completely changed , as if he knew they had come to tread on sensitive ground . |
| 6 | He knew they abused their bodies with liquor and narcotic essences . |
| 7 | She was a fine person and he knew they related to each other , shared the same sense of humour . |
| 8 | He said he was sorry for not visiting more often , sorry for not being there , for not , for not , for not , these omissions of his , these confessions , they rose into his closed mouth until it seemed that he might choke , they were jumbled up , dislocated , like old bones in a crypt , but he knew they fitted together , he knew they would form a skeleton where he could hang the flesh and muscle of his guilt . |
| 9 | He knew they soiled themselves with one another . |
| 10 | He knew they needed any extra money they could get and would let Barbara stay in their spare room without asking questions . ’ |
| 11 | He knew they did , the laughter ; , the little ones , they would all gather to watch , for , to please , even rank water he would kneel to drink . |
| 12 | This time no expression came over their faces and he knew they did not have much time to live . |
| 13 | But when Grainne came to the Castle , he knew himself lost , and he knew that the carapace so diligently acquired over the years was melting . |
| 14 | He was not a fool ; he knew what went on in the fields about his home in summer ; he was not himself without desires , desires and curiosity . |
| 15 | It would be better , it might even be bearable , if only he knew what had become of James . |
| 16 | I asked if he knew what had happened to her . |
| 17 | He knew what had already befallen every kinsman with whom Nicholas had come in contact . |
| 18 | And he thought he knew what had happened . |
| 19 | Now that he knew what had to be done , it was remarkable how different he felt . |
| 20 | How he knew what had happened . |
| 21 | He knew what had happened years ago . |
| 22 | He knew what had happened to her . |
| 23 | He knew what had put the idea in his head . |
| 24 | Although she did not look at Jake , she could feel he was watching her and that he knew what had stopped her dead in her tracks . |
| 25 | Between the two of them there grew up so great an affection that King Henry was much alarmed and , afraid of what the future might hold in store , he decided to postpone his return to England until he knew what lay behind this sudden friendship . " |
| 26 | He knew what happened to men and women whose notion of themselves had become degraded ; he 'd seen how traitors worked with a special spite , with a fury that was reserved for themselves as they twisted the knife in the wound . |
| 27 | He knew what worked in popular national Sunday newspapers and what did n't . |
| 28 | He knew no-one had seen him at Barak 's house otherwise he 'd have been charged straight away . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , ’ she lied , and he knew she lied . |
| 30 | And He knew she 'd paid sorely for having Jenny , paid in her own shame at being caught by a married man at her age , paid in being the cause of her death . |