Example sentences of "he know [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | All he wanted was for him to put out the cigarette ; he knew he would just go on suffering the strangled air . |
| 3 | He is quite brazenly staging a public spectacle — a spectacle for which he knew he would either have been stigmatised as an upstart and a blasphemer , or acknowledged as precisely what he claimed to be . |
| 4 | He knew he would only get one chance with the plastic . |
| 5 | For all their mutual sympathy , for all the sense he had of their being irrevocably bound together , this was the one question he knew he would never ask . |
| 6 | Last week Mr McTear , who was 48 , began giving evidence in the case the end of which he knew he would never see . |
| 7 | He had ninety thousand men , of whom half might fight well , and he knew he would likely face a hundred thousand of Napoleon 's veterans . |
| 8 | He knew he could never talk himself straight with you . |
| 9 | But only yesterday one of his own batch had n't been so lucky , and it was when the news broke in the camp that he knew he could still feel emotion . |
| 10 | He knew he could always go to his mother for help , but pride stopped him . |
| 11 | He knew he could really have done with a saw . |
| 12 | He knew I would eventually return to London and my career . ’ |
| 13 | Because he knew I could handle it , he knew I would n't rip him off , and he knew I 'd automatically get treated with respect everywhere I went in the world to represent the company . ’ |
| 14 | I was sure he knew I could barely contain myself or restrain my trembling fingers that longed to run their tips along the insides of those meaty thighs that were spreadeagled enticingly over the edge of his seat . |
| 15 | He knew I could well hold my own . |
| 16 | But he knew it would never come . |
| 17 | He knows it will always get a laugh . |
| 18 | He knows he would probably lose now and can afford to bide his time . |