Example sentences of "knew at " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he first reached the blissful shore of the redhead 's body , a peculiar idea occurred to him : he now knew at last what it meant to be absolutely modern ; it meant to lie on the shore of the redhead 's body . |
| 2 | I knew the face and knew at once that we had been intimate , but I had no idea who she was . |
| 3 | She had seen her country overrun by both the German and the Russian armies ; she knew at first-hand the madness of war and the fear it transmits to the civilian population . |
| 4 | But otherwise he preferred the system at Durham , where the teaching unit was powerful , to the system he knew at Cambridge , where the social unit was powerful yet excluded the spouses . |
| 5 | One deplorable result of this early specialisation is that university science and engineering departments choose their students from the minority of sixth formers who knew at 16 that they wanted to continue with maths and science . |
| 6 | But perhaps because she was thus secretly rejecting him and yet knew at the same time that he was in love with her , a sense of justice prompted her to help him in amorous efforts , to support him , to rid him of childish embarrassment . |
| 7 | She knew at once this was a trite remark . |
| 8 | He knew at once Lee had taken it . |
| 9 | My kind aunty knew at once what she meant , but first she would invite Lucy to choose a sweet from the box on the counter . |
| 10 | She knew at that moment that she wanted to injure every penis that ever came into her hand . |
| 11 | He knew at once of a house to let for a whole year , the owners being abroad and failing to let it before they left last month and seeing my condition he took pity and had the caretaker prevailed upon to come to me at his premises . |
| 12 | ‘ That bitch … ’ said Surkov softly , and I knew at once he was referring to Imogen . |
| 13 | He explains that an Englishman he knew at Czech radio used always to get the usual toast na zdrave ( health ) wrong , confusing it with nadraži , meaning ‘ railway station ’ . |
| 14 | She knew at once what he meant and looked nervously round at the others . |
| 15 | I know now , although I think I knew at the time , why one was so cared for by the ordinary people of Bury in 1941 . |
| 16 | I knew at Becher 's second-time that we would not really get involved . |
| 17 | Mr Prentice , a 41-year-old local government officer , knew at 12.30am that he had won Pendle from defending Tory John Lee . |
| 18 | I was already upset because one of my best friends , a girl I knew at school , has been having a surgical operation today . |
| 19 | However , I knew at least a couple of players because I 'd caddied for Roger Fidler in the 1977 British Open while I was still an assistant , and I 'd also carried Florentina Melina 's bag . |
| 20 | After more than forty years , strangers now dwelt in the houses I knew at Wood Green . |
| 21 | Although she knew they were both wrong she could n't apportion blame to either of them , not yet , at any rate ; the only thing she knew at the moment was that what she had heard tied her to this house and the business as if she had signed a contract giving away her life . |
| 22 | Margaret of Carlisle , 47 , was widowed two years ago and knew at first hand the financial problems that can arise from the sudden death of a loved one and the trauma of finding that her partner was inadequately insured . |
| 23 | She suddenly saw how selfish she had been , and knew at last the answer to the thing that had puzzled her for so long — why her mummy , who had been a keen Brownie Guider and loved Brownies , would n't let her join a Pack . |
| 24 | Virginia knew at once that the witch had seen her , for she stopped , as if in surprise , and then stared at her . |
| 25 | Penny knew at once that it was her lost budgerigar . |
| 26 | Her shriek awakened the house , and Coleridge , who had been asleep when his father returned , knew at once what it signified , saying to himself in the darkness , ‘ Papa is dead . ’ |
| 27 | I knew at once I had never |
| 28 | Two or three months prior to the Dams Raid , when the new squadron was being formed in the spring of 1943 , ground crew personnel from all over Bomber Command were selected and sent to Scampton , the best men at their respective jobs , for what they only knew at that time was going to be one special operation . |
| 29 | The girls I knew at COHQ thought he was particularly unattractive , but I expect his own girls applied different criteria . |
| 30 | I knew at once that something was wrong . |