Example sentences of "i knew that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I put my head in my hands and prayed until I felt right , but I knew that feelings would not buy God . |
| 2 | I knew that Anna had a lot of adjusting to do , and that in the orphanage many children had n't had beds . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I knew that Nick was going to have an incredible television career , ’ says Andrew . |
| 4 | Classic comedy : ‘ I knew that Nick would have an incredible TV career |
| 5 | I knew that voice almost as well as I knew the theme from Doctor Zhivago . |
| 6 | But I knew that Posi was quite capable of droning on forever with useless stuff about gross domestic product and tertiary natural resources . |
| 7 | I knew that Inez had had her turn in the little hut but I did n't know until afterwards that she was pregnant . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew that Frank had to grow up , after five years , ’ said the star , ‘ or he would seem a complete idiot . |
| 9 | I knew that Aubagne was the depot of the 1er Régiment Étranger ( the 1st Foreign Regiment ) of the French Foreign Legion , through which everybody passed on their way to basic training , and where legionnaires spent time while on attachments from other regiments , and pending postings overseas . |
| 10 | I knew that Quechua , the lineal descendant of the Inca language , was spoken by the majority of the Peruvian Indians and told him that in the Gaelic-speaking parts of Scotland there were similar tensions . |
| 11 | I knew that knowledge was the way to turn situations around . ’ |
| 12 | Nesting nearby in holes in the boulder were a colony of puffins , and I probably imagined that these Icelandic birds looked larger than those nesting in Shetland , because I knew that studies had shown this to be the case . |
| 13 | I knew that Frontenac had certain rights to the material and Jean-Claude had none . |
| 14 | I knew that Syl 's mother , like my own , would consider talking to yourself the first sign of madness . |
| 15 | ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’ |
| 16 | My letters were now addressed not from the Middle East Forces , but from the British North African Forces and , moreover , headed 137/166 Newfoundland Regiment , R.A. This quite confused me for I had never heard of Canadians in North Africa — even though I knew that Newfoundland was not really Canada . |
| 17 | I knew that presenters could be expendable . |
| 18 | I knew that scheme would not hold . |
| 19 | I knew that response had been bad in our parish and I honestly did n't expect many young people to be there anyway . |
| 20 | I knew that Mrs Duncan was in the kitchen and that Mr Duncan was working in the garden . |
| 21 | I knew that word … but only that morning had warned us to be quiet whenever was around . |
| 22 | If I knew that policeman better , the one I met at the bus stop , she thought , I 'd be tempted to tell him , because it tells you how Rose felt about her son . |
| 23 | However , I knew that Sarah and John had to be still around . |
| 24 | I knew that Sarah would treat the child as her own , and even take him from me , but at the time I did not mind — what was mine was hers . |
| 25 | I knew that shrinks were meant to respect the inability of their patients to express certain fundamental anxieties , that the whole thrust of their endeavour was to move around the edifice of such neuroses , gradually excavating their foundations in memory with a sort of verbal teaspoon . |
| 26 | I knew that Will loved that boy of his — red-haired , bright as a new penny , full of life . |
| 27 | I KNEW that Earl Spencer had made a special provision in his will . |
| 28 | I knew that Ben was a good enough footballer to play effectively where we wanted him . ’ |
| 29 | And when it did arrive , I knew that Kano was still one thousand , seven hundred miles away over mountains and dunes , almost as far from me as Manchester , my home , where , as I turned ruefully north , I wished I had stayed . |
| 30 | I knew that men did n't enjoy talk about emotion . |