Example sentences of "knew that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The article appeared in an Italian magazine Metro , who had intended to pay $300 for an article ; but when Johns ' dealer , Leo Castelli , knew that Steinberg was considering an article , he arranged for the magazine to offer $1,000 , paying the difference of $700 himself . |
| 2 | Alas , my aquatic love , said another line , and Jaromil knew that the aquatic love was Magda ; but he also knew that nobody else could find her in that line … ’ . |
| 3 | Alas , my aquatic love , said another line , and Jaromil knew that the aquatic love was Magda ; but he also knew that nobody else could find her in that line … ’ . |
| 4 | After all we knew that subsidy did n't exist to subsidise empty seats but rather the necessary and new ideas that were wanted at the time . |
| 5 | And yet , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , I also knew that it was this cold that drew me , this steady destruction of body and imagination , this utter alienness , as though only that could still excite me , as though anything less alien would only leave me indifferent . |
| 6 | We knew that the one way to get the world 's two greatest detectives to come here would be to stage a mysterious disappearance . |
| 7 | There were no teas being served and , anyway , everybody in Little Tuckett knew that either Mrs Clancy or Mrs Feather always won the Cake Competition . |
| 8 | I knew that , in the cold light of day , he held all the aces . |
| 9 | And we both knew that hardly anyone would be prepared to speak out and argue my case . |
| 10 | However , I knew that Sarah and John had to be still around . |
| 11 | I did n't have the faintest idea how this girl could help me but I knew that she was going to try . |
| 12 | It is equivalent to landing on the hedge because you did not close the airbrake , even though you knew that you were likely to hit it . |
| 13 | This distrust of the social scientist is so deeply ingrained that when I was reading anthropology as an undergraduate and I was asked by my colleagues what subject I was reading , I knew that I would have to prevaricate or face problems . |
| 14 | And of course I knew that this hierarchical organization offers the possibility of reward and incorporation into the highest ranks to those who conform to such dictates . |
| 15 | In this setting the qualitative was constantly under evaluation at the expense of the quantitative measure , for the ‘ wise ’ amongst us who were present knew that the statistical return often gives a skewed version of complex social events , although it speaks volumes about the way our systems of control are generated and maintained . |
| 16 | But equally , ’ his voice surged , ‘ they knew that the Lord would provide . |
| 17 | The river again , the far bank was nearer but here was a black smooth stretch , he half knew that he was dreaming , he wanted to stop the dream and he wanted to get across , if only he could raise his mouth and nostrils above the swell of the water … |
| 18 | He knew that to face their defeat in Strath Tay ( he assumed defeat now ) would be too wounding , too dispiriting : it would bring him near despair . |
| 19 | Almost immediately on arrival , surrounded by the cosmopolitan excitement of New York , its immense anonymity , the total lack of personal interest shown towards him after having been the centre of warmth and appreciation in Montreal , he knew that it was not for him . |
| 20 | He knew that ‘ it was not good for man to dwell alone ’ ; and he sharply felt his loneliness . |
| 21 | Maggie knew that if she felt like that she 'd never say so . |
| 22 | For example both children knew that bricks A and B were the same size , but , when viewed through portholes in a box , A looked bigger to one child and B looked bigger to the partner . |
| 23 | ‘ Never knew that , promise . |
| 24 | She knew that his Gothic romance and glossary were being turned down by publisher after publisher and he grew despondent as he rewrote and rewrote again . |
| 25 | I knew that my presence annoyed him , and if I 'd stop to nurse hurt feelings , I 'd travel home each night on the el , lonely and defeated , in the way one can be on a train . |
| 26 | Petipa 's orders to Tchaikovsky were sacrosanct because the composer knew that if that ‘ dictator ’ did not approve the music would have to be changed ( as it was for The Nutcracker . ) |
| 27 | As for Hewlett , how far he knew that he was being ‘ used ’ by Pound is what at this point no one can determine . |
| 28 | And this echoed a letter of 1937 to Michael Roberts , extolling Ford and saying , ‘ The old crusted lice and advocates of corpse language knew that The English Review existed ’ . |
| 29 | The phantom was initially nameless but the viewer knew that , if he had shouted Class or Guilt after it , it would probably have answered . |
| 30 | At the same time she knew that her gender isolated her from the ritualised socialising of other senior officers . |