Example sentences of "but he knew [pers pn] " 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 | He had his little peccadilloes , the quaint and rather Machiavellian ways to gain his little ends , but he knew me and I knew him , and in essentials he made good . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ But he knew her . ’ |
| 4 | A furlong separated them but he knew her at once . |
| 5 | He had never actually seen one , but he knew they were there . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They would celebrate with him but he knew they would be envious . |
| 8 | The team inside the car , three of them , would occasionally turn on the engine and try to warm themselves , but he knew they 'd feel the cold after such a freezing night . |
| 9 | He had given up dashing through to adjoining rooms running to look downstairs or above , craning his head out of windows to look for hovering helicopters , but he knew they were there somewhere all right , he knew what they were up to . |
| 10 | Luiza and Freddi were there but he knew they would be hopeless . |
| 11 | But he knew they 're bred for working and when he retired he decided to give it a go . |
| 12 | But he knew she 'd cut him off . |
| 13 | He thought for a moment that if she would only accept his feelings for Carrie he would go to her this minute and put his arms about her and comfort her , but he knew she would never accept Carrie . |
| 14 | There was n't a note , but he knew she 'd gone for good . |
| 15 | It was too dark in the small room to see by her expression if Isabel remembered also , but he knew she did . |
| 16 | But he knew she would be if he could work it . |
| 17 | He wanted her to relax into happiness — physically , mentally , spiritually — but he knew it would take time . |
| 18 | A little tickle , but he knew it would keep him awake all night . |
| 19 | But he knew it would never come . |
| 20 | He was unsure of the exact translation but he knew it to be very , very rude . |
| 21 | But he knew it would n't last , and it did n't . |
| 22 | But he knew it would be useless to press his mother too hard for any major decision . |
| 23 | He had not visited the place he was seeking before , but he knew it was there , and had heard tales of it from numerous acquaintances . |
| 24 | They might n't have a pound between them but he knew it would be paid . |
| 25 | But he knew it was true . |
| 26 | But he knew it was more likely that alien golden eagles would have taken it over and it might not be easy to win it back for his own . |
| 27 | Delia Sutherland closed her fingers around the inside of his elbow with a pressure that could have been the overture to an embrace but he knew it was not . |
| 28 | But he knew it to be a frequently found trait , for most of the Noble Lords of Tara had long since dispersed and the enchanted Beastblood , once guarded so jealously , had nearly died out . |
| 29 | But he knew it was a routine , automatic business , none the less essential for all that , and nine times out of ten effective . |
| 30 | Her eyes remained hard , but he knew it was an act . |