Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] know all " in BNC.
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| 1 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 2 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 3 | I saw now what I 'd known all the time , only I 'd hidden it craftily from myself because it did n't fit in with what I wanted to do , that Terry and I had no basis for a love-affair ; we were friends who happened to be attracted to each other physically , which was far from enough , and by thinking it was enough we 'd gone against the very nature of our relationship . |
| 4 | Suddenly Graham , whom I 'd known all my life , was different . |
| 5 | And I said oh yes Mr I said know all the carols . |
| 6 | As a small child I had known all the words of Masefield 's poem , ‘ Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir/Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine … ’ |
| 7 | And you got to know all these things , you got to know the peculiarities of what they liked best doing you see , and everything like that . |
| 8 | And Dot had a sinking feeling because she realized she 'd known all along even though she had n't wanted to . |
| 9 | She 'd known all along she 'd be made to stay and watch . |
| 10 | Oh no , she thought — as if she 'd known all along this was what would happen . |
| 11 | She had been so certain she 'd known all there was to know about the man in her arms — but she had n't . |
| 12 | She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained . |
| 13 | Maxine told me that she had known all the time that she was her twentieth-century self and that she was sitting in a comfortable chair in my consulting room . |
| 14 | In the bedrooms were the curtains she had known all her life , and the fitted carpets remained , but beds and cupboards had been spirited away . |
| 15 | She had known all along that DeVore would have some reason for helping her out . |
| 16 | She had known all this before she moved into it , from the estate agents ' sheet . |
| 17 | He conveyed the idea that she had known all of them in the beauty of her youth and theirs , and most of them had been her beaux . |
| 18 | Well , was n't that what she had wanted — to let him see that she had known all along what lay behind his invitation this evening ? |
| 19 | Leave all her friends , the ones she had known all her life ? |
| 20 | This Nationalist co-operation and its outcome led to the loss of many SNP activists , who had known all along that Labour could not be trusted . |
| 21 | She wanted to know all about the Tyrrell Society , of which Willy , Alan and I were members . ’ |
| 22 | And now , suppose you tell me why you wanted to know all this ? ’ |
| 23 | Uncle Alfred explained about dogs to Anabelle , who wanted to know all about them . |
| 24 | Oh did n't you know , I could 've told you that you know then we got to know all the all the things when it was too late but as regards my mother telling us anything brrr no . |
| 25 | We got to know all the money he had from these grants to get all these machines and all these . |
| 26 | And we got to know all the people there . |
| 27 | Perhaps they 'd known all along what was going to happen to him . |
| 28 | In fact they had known all about Crabb 's venture before they arrived at Portsmouth and their frogmen were waiting for him as he approached the cruiser . |
| 29 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 30 | He began crying and shouting — that he 'd known all along she was having an affair and was planning to leave him . |