Example sentences of "she knew the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew the shape of her hips , from riding on them , and the tumbling rhythms of her high-pitched voice . |
| 2 | The telephone call was made , and Margaret , heard amid the distant screams of children quarrelling , gushed that it was a darling-idea and she would telephone the Advent herself , since she knew the women 's editor well . |
| 3 | Lucille noted how the girl refused all partners but that one man and she felt a surge of sympathy because she knew the girl must be in love , just as she herself was in love . |
| 4 | She knew the girl who accompanied him well enough , but her companion 's face escaped her . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , actually , this is such a beautiful place , I was thinking of maybe staying on for a few extra days , ’ she invented hastily , knowing her mother would worry herself silly if she knew the half of it — let alone that her car had packed up . |
| 6 | ‘ She knew the storm was coming , ’ Simon explained . |
| 7 | She had taken the opportunity to read so much about the social work of the Army she felt she knew the history , background , areas of special need inside out in theory . |
| 8 | Katherine thought she knew the occasion that had sparked it . |
| 9 | She knew the direction was right , it would stop at Bond Street where she wanted to be . |
| 10 | When she knew the plans were afoot to move her on her concern was for her second in command , a Sinhalese whom she considered worthy of being leader . |
| 11 | She knew the press would seize on the food from Maxims , the tents by Jansen , and so on . |
| 12 | She saw the way his eyes roamed her body , lingering on the full curves of her breasts , the flat plane of her stomach , and then he removed his shirt , his jeans , so that once again she knew the thrill of seeing his gleaming , naked torso . |
| 13 | Oh she knew the bloke , she 'd be she 'd been out with him a few times before right , he 's , he 's not a bad bloke but like I said like I said erm but he 's respect for her I said to her |
| 14 | She knew the offers would disappear again the very moment she tried to take them up . |
| 15 | So she thought she knew the sector , and set her favourite ideologue , Sir Keith ( now Lord ) Joseph to give the universities a brisk , introductory course in Thatcherite economics . |
| 16 | But in her tributes to Colette , Middlemarch 's Rosamund , Baudelaire 's Black Venus , Lizzie Borden , Viv ( ‘ Spend , Spend , Spend ’ ) Nicholson and chorus girls elsewhere , she shows she knew the strategies of female outlaws have lacked nothing in resourcefulness or invention . |
| 17 | Clearly she knew the way to a man 's heart was through his feet . |
| 18 | She knew the way back . |
| 19 | It was no matter ; she knew the way back . |
| 20 | She knew the Brownie Motto and Law , and now they flashed into her mind : ‘ Lend a Hand ’ and ‘ A Brownie thinks of others before herself and does a good turn every day ’ . |
| 21 | She knew the hymns from school days , the tunes at least . |
| 22 | Her secretary said some crank had tried to get an appointment and a woman came to the clinic pretending she knew the secretary . |
| 23 | I do n't think she knew the crochet lady and I 'm sure neither knew that I had perfected the art of correcting typescript undetectably ! |
| 24 | She knew the procedure . |
| 25 | It was too far to make out his smile , but she knew the smile was there . |
| 26 | She knew the cops would n't just fine her . |
| 27 | She knew the rebel baron who had been ravaging the countryside , the man whose name Ralf had been unable to recall . |
| 28 | She knew the part for which she was cast was that of the self-sacrificing heroine , encouraging the man she loved in his spiritual aspirations ; but she withheld the words of sympathy and understanding . |
| 29 | She knew the man by sight , as he was amongst her tennis fans . |
| 30 | She left them to it : interventionist though she was , she knew the limits of her power . |