Example sentences of "[conj] i knew that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kay was the name that I was called at home , my middle name , one of my father 's names , and I knew that Kay , the boy in The Snow Queen , was me , who had a lump of ice in her heart . |
| 2 | If I knew that policeman better , the one I met at the bus stop , she thought , I 'd be tempted to tell him , because it tells you how Rose felt about her son . |
| 3 | If I knew that Mr. Andrew was n't coming back , I 'd give in my notice tomorrow . |
| 4 | I put my head in my hands and prayed until I felt right , but I knew that feelings would not buy God . |
| 5 | But I knew that Posi was quite capable of droning on forever with useless stuff about gross domestic product and tertiary natural resources . |
| 6 | But I knew that reason was powerless to undo these matters and ate some Yorkshire pudding in silence . |
| 7 | But I knew that Cynthia liked weddings and parties and dances . |
| 8 | But I knew that Mala would allow me no peace until I joined in her speculations . |
| 9 | Nesting nearby in holes in the boulder were a colony of puffins , and I probably imagined that these Icelandic birds looked larger than those nesting in Shetland , because I knew that studies had shown this to be the case . |
| 10 | Although this might suggest otherwise , I was all the time working hard for Schools , as I knew that Eliot , now my mentor in most things , would have strongly urged me to do . |
| 11 | I wondered why I had n't had the wit to take the starveling cat to Mother Joseph as soon as I knew that Nour might kill it . |
| 12 | My letters were now addressed not from the Middle East Forces , but from the British North African Forces and , moreover , headed 137/166 Newfoundland Regiment , R.A. This quite confused me for I had never heard of Canadians in North Africa — even though I knew that Newfoundland was not really Canada . |
| 13 | ‘ Even so , I 've been trying to get to this level for seven or eight years , even though I knew that people liked what I did . |