Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] know that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm well I did n't actually hear about it , I 'd already known that sch that such schemes existed . |
| 2 | She 'd always known that it was n't her sort of outfit ! |
| 3 | ‘ You 're a good boy , Wayne , ’ Angelica had said , and they 'd both known that she was meaning for more than just the errand . |
| 4 | He 'd also known that when the chips were down she would n't back away . |
| 5 | We came here knowing that , if injustice existed , we could set it right . |
| 6 | Suppose that I claimed yesterday to know that it would rain in the afternoon , on the normal grounds ( weather forecast , gathering clouds , etc. ) , but that it turns out that I was wrong . |
| 7 | Some needed only to know that we existed — that was enough for them to throw themselves wholeheartedly into the gay life . |
| 8 | Oh , he was clever , and it hurt unbearably to know that now , of all times , she had to lie to him . |
| 9 | The most this can mean is that the people who voted for the party did so knowing that it was planning to do certain things , and that therefore these voters can be assumed to have consented to those plans . |
| 10 | The Rosenblooms had long known that they could take her with them anywhere in society . |
| 11 | Isabel had always known that , with Kathleen , one might , on very rare occasions , go too far . |
| 12 | We had always known that there were many people looking for a historic building to restore but had not realized the extent , which was very encouraging . |
| 13 | She had always known that Liza could twist him round her little finger . |
| 14 | He had always known that Graham would find him again one day . |
| 15 | Pressing his hand against her bosom or kissing his fingers softly and reverently , she told him that she knew and had always known that only she could make him happy , that there was already a mystical bond between them and that if she could not soon feel his arms about her and his lips upon her own , she would sink away into despair . |
| 16 | Richard Branson had always known that , sooner or later , he would have to face the possibility of a price war with the big transatlantic carriers . |
| 17 | Anthony had always known that she loved Julia , but after the things Comfort had said at Christmas he had not expected her to be thrown into quite such terror . |
| 18 | She had always known that Finn would reappear , because for a time they always did , never quite sure that the new woman was an improvement on the old one , keeping their options open . |
| 19 | She was fiery by temperament , Lisa had always known that , and he , a Cancerian to his fingertips , was all shifting , unfathomable water . |
| 20 | She had always resented Luke , and feared the way he made her feel — because she must have sensed from the beginning the power he could and did have over her ; because he had deprived her of himself when he had had her dismissed from that very first job back in South Africa ; because something had led him to misjudge and despise her , and he was unable to see the truth ; because she had always known that he could break her heart … |
| 21 | She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other . |
| 22 | She had always known that she must get away from him some time in order to reach Lori , and there could n't be a better opportunity . |
| 23 | Although two years had passed since that nightmare day when Simon had crashed on the Grand Prix circuit in Australia , Ashley had always known that , sooner or later , it must be her destiny to meet up with the tall , broad-shouldered Portuguese again . |
| 24 | She had also known that Charles would have to see his mother just as regularly after they were married as before : there were matters of state they had to discuss , and discuss in private . |
| 25 | Before that I had never known that human beings could do such things to others , but after that I knew . |
| 26 | She had never known that her parents met at a tennis party in a county far away . |
| 27 | I had never known that world and I wondered how Olga felt , consigning me to it while she luxuriated in the house . |
| 28 | Isabel loved her great-grandmother 's garden , although she had never known that lady , who had expired bearing her lord a son , the present Baron 's father . |
| 29 | Things could n't go on as they were without something happening , and she had intuitively known that when it did her life would be forever changed . |