Example sentences of "knew you " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I kinda knew you 'd say that , but had forgotten the unique thrill of the way only you can say things . |
| 2 | my pain is that I knew you |
| 3 | ‘ We knew you were there . |
| 4 | Soft-centred milk chocolates that came as one bit them seemed almost as exciting as dancing with someone you knew you were about to sleep with used to be . |
| 5 | Daddy , We Hardly Knew You , by Rupert Murdoch , Clive James and Germaine Greer . |
| 6 | ‘ And did he not send any word to anybody when he knew you were coming home ? ’ |
| 7 | I knew you would n't mind having her for just a fortnight . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I never knew you was married , ’ I say . |
| 9 | ‘ What do you think Father and Mother would say if they knew you were even thinking of going off with those kids — and at this time of night ! |
| 10 | ‘ I knew you would n't believe me , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ I knew you 'd jump to conclusions , ’ Kitty said . |
| 12 | You wonder that it should seem to me at first all illusion But how natural — It is true of me … very true … that I have not a high appreciation of what passes in the world under the name of love ; & that a distrust of the thing had grown to be a habit of mind with me when I knew you first . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew you 'd come back , that you would n't drop me like that , ’ breathes a husky male voice . |
| 14 | ‘ When I first knew you , you would have been full of despair and melancholy at the thought of clerical life , but now though there is a faint hint of it you are full of hope and joy . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Still , I 'm sure it brought out hidden strengths you never knew you had . ’ |
| 16 | I knew you 'd be delighted to hear that . ’ |
| 17 | I knew you were coming . |
| 18 | There was just no point in remaining on the premises when you knew you had to go , as Muldoon had said . |
| 19 | ‘ To get into the group at all , you have to say what you 'd do if you knew you were going to die tomorrow . |
| 20 | That weekend is also memorable for something Dana said to me in the train on the way back to Salamanca : ‘ I knew you were gay as soon as I saw you that morning in the galleria . ’ |
| 21 | Dana 's words struck at my heart , as he had done , quite deliberately , when he had told me : ‘ The very first time I saw you , I knew you were gay . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Knew you 'd be here , ’ he said . |
| 23 | That it was him did all them things ? — I knew you were daft , Gazzer . |
| 24 | I never knew you was that daft , though . ’ |
| 25 | I knew you would n't ! — I 'm going to get you ! — I 'm coming after you ! — Losers ! |
| 26 | The babies , the bottles , the cooking , the diapering , the burping , the carriage wheeling , the pressure cooker , the barbecue , the playground and doing-it-yourself was more comfortable , more safe , secure and satisfying than that supposedly glamorous ‘ career ’ in which you somehow did n't feel wanted and knew you were n't going to get anywhere . |
| 27 | By small things , she had learned , people knew you , by the quality of shoes and gloves and belts . |
| 28 | Everyone knew you 'd begun casting wider . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Who knew you took the floorboards up ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I did ask to sit next to you , ’ Erica remarked , as if reading my thoughts as I sat down , ‘ once I knew you 'd be here . ’ |