Example sentences of "knew [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they passed through the hall , she saw him glance at the picture that was hanging there , and asked him on an impulse if he knew who the original was . |
| 2 | She knew who the man on the boat with Sabine Jourdain was . |
| 3 | The mother of one of the victims maintained that although the girls were referred to in court only by their first names to protect them from reprisals , she was particularly worried that people in the court 's public gallery knew who the girl was . |
| 4 | She took it for granted that each knew who the other was , and standing aside to motion him in she said : ‘ It 's good of you to be so accommodating , Mr Dalgliesh . |
| 5 | All day long he insisted that they already knew who the fellow-Communists of his branch had been in the Forties and that he did not want to ‘ crawl through the mud for no purpose ’ . |
| 6 | Fight fans knew who the champions were ; the prize was worth having . |
| 7 | Murder : he remembered the first chilling thrill of the word in the school playground , when it was still something to be excited about and before he knew who the victim was , or the chief suspect . |
| 8 | He asked whether anyone knew who the woman was . |
| 9 | Hence I never knew who the culprit was and was never put into possession of the document or documents which existed and which would certainly have identified that person , since each copy of the minutes had , on my advice , been numbered . |
| 10 | Well if I knew who the hell Dawn 's brother was ! |
| 11 | That might in itself imply that she felt for some reason that she would be suspected , or perhaps she knew who the killer was and preferred to keep quiet . |
| 12 | I knew who the murderer was , but I could not tell anyone . |
| 13 | A third is that many of the buy-outs and recapitalisations succeeded because the managers knew something the shareholders did not about future cash flows . |
| 14 | The demonstrators knew something the demolition workers did n't . |
| 15 | I have n't , I have n't got a clue but I knew it the minute the second you said it I knew it . |
| 16 | Tonight 's crowd was a good one — Rory knew it the second her fingers curled possessively round the microphone , the atmosphere reaching out to enfold her like a lover 's embrace , and she revelled in it , her eyes glowing , her whole body tingling in response . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew it the moment I saw it last Sunday . |
| 18 | Donleavy posed these questions as if , like Coleman , he knew what the answers were already . |
| 19 | Herein lay a paradox : the PSBC was ‘ patronage [ good ] , that is , supporting projects of merit and quality ’ , whereas ‘ paternalism ’ [ bad ] referred to institutions , such as the BBC , which believed they knew what the public needed . |
| 20 | The Navaho knew what the moon wanted of her . |
| 21 | Jessamyn knew what the cowboy was made of . |
| 22 | Now , she knew what the sting in the tail would be . |
| 23 | Although he evidently knew what the king had planned , he nowhere states it explicitly , and his silence has left the field to Mancini 's version . |
| 24 | Although he evidently knew what the king had planned , he nowhere states it explicitly , and his silence has left the field to Mancini 's version . |
| 25 | She knew what the singing in the air had been and her arms crept around his neck as he drew her closer still . |
| 26 | And Preston knew that William knew what the rest of them had known , or suspected , for some months : that he and his mother were never going to America and that the Master Sergeant was never coming back . |
| 27 | Sally Jones , the sports presenter , clearly knew what the plural of Grand Prix was . |
| 28 | It would be easier to work out the story of the Jingoes if we knew what the beginning was . |
| 29 | Hau knew what the Khmer Rouge could do . |
| 30 | And he hoped Papa Grimwood would handle the Lennox girl with finesse — assuming the old villain knew what the word meant . |