Example sentences of "knew [that] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she knew that this outing had been contrived by him so that he could make progress with her . |
| 2 | She knew that this day would decide it . |
| 3 | But Anton knew that this man , one way or the other , would n't be working in this place much longer . |
| 4 | As soon as I saw the file , I knew it was the one I had stolen from Joe , and I knew that this man knew my convict . |
| 5 | Coun Jim Knowles said : ‘ We all knew that this proposal would not go through , and it is now clear that we should not be pursuing a policy of closing schools . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But Kit , ’ Tom reminded him , barely a year ago , we hardly knew that this paradise existed . |
| 7 | From past experience he knew that this subject was usually given a low priority , on the basis that by far the majority of business is transacted without ever having to refer to the small print . |
| 8 | " Lorrimer knew that this idea of the lab as a scientific arbiter would n't work , not with the British accusatorial system . |
| 9 | Second , I also knew that this disquiet existed alongside other more conventional attitudes which perfectly fitted the portrayal of parents usually found in that literature . |
| 10 | I knew that this spiral joined the crypt to the turret via the south-east corner of the tower . |
| 11 | And because he was a doctor , he knew that this snake 's poison is difficult to find in a dead body . |
| 12 | And Jimmy knew that this time he was in serious trouble . |
| 13 | She knew that this trouble with her daughter would be all the more enjoyed because it was a reflection on herself . |
| 14 | The circumstances in which Anselm used the phrase Libertas Ecclesiae in these nine letters from 1101 to 1106 show that he knew that this phrase embodied the papal policy with which Hugh of Lyons had probably made him familiar , and which he was in duty bound to carry out in the matter of homage and investiture . |
| 15 | No part of his mind said , ‘ It 's silly to feel like this about leaving the house , ’ because he knew that this feeling was n't in any way connected with his leaving the house . |
| 16 | We all knew that this carnage was the work of Unionist Fascists bent on teaching the Republic a lesson — stay out of our affairs . |
| 17 | Jenna did not have her mother 's memories , she could not conjure up his face , and she knew that this fact alone would haunt her if she stayed away . |
| 18 | Everyone knew that this body had been a key element in Stalin 's rise to power and that any criticism of it was , by inference , a critique of Stalin . |