Example sentences of "[Wh pn] knew " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only somebody who knew his weakness for them , ’ said Peggy . |
| 2 | As did the House Manager who roamed throughout performances in the foyer or the staircases , the bars of Stalls , Dress Circle and Upper Circle , keeping an eye on programme girls ( most of them certainly mature ) who , in their black dresses and little aprons , ushered , sold programmes and in the intervals brought trays of tea and biscuits ( coffee in the evenings ) , while in the orchestra pit the band ( tuxedoed , although who knew whether their trousers matched ) played pleasing music . |
| 3 | ‘ That would have meant , ’ said the inspector alertly , ‘ that anyone who knew where you were all sitting would have been able work out who would get which plate in the pile . ’ |
| 4 | Francis , who knew Lucy , said little ; Francis , who cared about Jay , kept brandy in the office . |
| 5 | This novel seems , but only seems , but does seem insistently , to come from a man who knew nothing but was very opinionated , who checked no facts and guzzled rumour scraps , whose mind was uncouth , raggity , raucous , florid . |
| 6 | It so happened that the novelist 's wife had a younger brother at this Academy who knew Ivanov . |
| 7 | But for the moment , that 's not the point — which is rather that those who have been , legitimately or at least understandably , affronted by the pretensions of Olson as poet should not therefore write him off as anything but what he was : an exceptionally earnest and magnanimous man , and a man moreover who knew , as few poets since John Milton have known , what the polity looks like from the point of view of those who administer it day by day . |
| 8 | Over the months of her battle with lung cancer her unfailing humour and concern that others should be able to handle her illness without awkwardness were an example to all who knew her . |
| 9 | Only the canny Mr Genscher , who knew the East Germans ' minds , could have thought of letting the regime save face by ‘ expelling ’ their own people across their own territory . |
| 10 | A 26-year-old woman accountant who knew nothing about the mechanical side of vehicles asked her more knowledgeable friend to find a car for her . |
| 11 | Mr Havel was one of a handful of people who knew of Mr Devaty 's decision in advance . |
| 12 | McKenzie , who has never been in trouble before , was described by people who knew him as a pleasant individual . |
| 13 | Soon he was in Belgium and facing a committee of patriots who knew only too well how the Gestapo had infiltrated supposed POWs into organisations . |
| 14 | One who knew her remembered a very large hole in her stocking . |
| 15 | Lloyd George was not a person who knew little about clergymen . |
| 16 | Macmillan consulted the Queen , who knew and liked both Ramsey and Coggan . |
| 17 | Ramsey , who knew the announcement was coming , delivered a public tribute to Fisher in the York Convocation . |
| 18 | Gide at the end of his life remarked that Wilde only began to live after dark as it were , away from most of those who knew him ( So Be It , 27 ) . |
| 19 | These companies all had able and high-calibre people who knew their respective businesses very well , but his objective was to inject his own ideas into the decision-making process in the hope that this would produce an added beneficial dimension . |
| 20 | Who knew Mr Hatton would pass along the Kingsbrook path that night ? ’ |
| 21 | not unhappy at staying away from a western business man , even though he might be a temporary guest of the State ; after all , they were permanent guests and who knew but … . |
| 22 | I went to a special sports school — not Leipzig , ’ she added hastily , to a nod from Erika who knew very well what Leipzig meant in the athletic world of the G.D.R. , the absolute , superlative top — ‘ but I was a second rater there . |
| 23 | To anyone who knew Lewis in the second half of his life , and remarked his preference for boys ' books such as R. M. Ballantyne or Captain Marryat over the so-called ‘ moderns ’ , there can be no doubt that he was here addressing a warning not just to his brother but to himself . |
| 24 | For how could a reader who knew nothing of the original matter — the origin of the Silmarils , the rise and fall of Numenor , the triumphs and ultimate ruin of Gondolin , etc. — find a way in ? |
| 25 | For those who are familiar with Lewis 's literary persona , as for the much smaller number of people who knew him in life , his acceptance of an orthodox Christian position seems in an almost literal sense fitting . |
| 26 | While such thoughts were inevitable for those who knew Lewis before the great change came upon his life , it was not quite right to speak of ‘ pastiche ’ . |
| 27 | Her father , Earl Spencer , at that time Viscount Althorp , was the perfect gentleman to all who knew him , but not so gentlemanly behind closed doors . |
| 28 | Charles had said he wanted a practical farmer on the council who knew something about estate management , and John Higgs was the man found for the job . |
| 29 | Having known the Royal Family all her life , she was easy to talk to , and was one of the few people who knew what Diana was talking about when she spoke about her day-to-day life . |
| 30 | But while it 's true that Woolf 's disapproval of the film 's distinctive angles and extreme lighting contrasts does betray a degree of conservatism and , in his later campaign against The Man who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ) , he was clearly the enemy of anything even moderately original , Woolf was not a simple philistine . |