Example sentences of "i knew [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew no other way to learn technique , so I kept on trying to do what she told me , hoping for the best , hoping that my true voice would appear around the corner . |
| 2 | I knew no fear . |
| 3 | ‘ I knew no good would come of such a marriage , ’ she said . |
| 4 | ‘ I knew no one . |
| 5 | After 24 hours of freedom I knew no one was going to lock me up again |
| 6 | Apart from the facts about the different regiments gleaned from the poster on the wall at Lille , I knew no more now than I had as I stood watching England disappear from the back of the ferry . |
| 7 | I knew no one in their sane senses who believed that Profumo was a spy , and in fact that suggestion was never made . |
| 8 | " Two weeks later I was ready to go to a place I did n't know , and where I knew no one . |
| 9 | Only the sound of the engine , and my eyes shifting from the mist and the road to take covert glances at his face ; I knew no more about him now than when I first met him , except what he had told me on the flight down from Mexico . |
| 10 | Alcoholism is a social thing , not a homelessness thing — I mean , I knew a few university lecturers who were alcoholics , but they all had homes to go to — or still had , last time they ever spoke to me . ’ |
| 11 | I knew a few of the Marines . |
| 12 | ‘ I knew a fellow , ’ Wexford lied ruminatively , ‘ a lorry driver like yourself . |
| 13 | I knew a family — six children in that case there were — they got evicted neck and crop just because they cracked a drainpipe . |
| 14 | I 've encountered Arena -reading Young Conservatives who get off on The Smiths and Sex Pistols : I knew a girl whose favourite group is The Jam but who claims to be apolitical and whose one great desire in life is a Mercedes . |
| 15 | She did seem to meet quite a number of people on her walks ; people whom I knew a little , so that fragments of conversation pursued me . |
| 16 | I knew a bit more about . |
| 17 | I knew a bit more about Sir Ivor than they did . |
| 18 | I knew a putt would have to drop before long and it came at the 8th , the par-3 ( 178 yards ) . |
| 19 | I knew a family of five devoted daughters — all married — who took it in turns , when their father died , to stay with their widowed mother night and day , on a rota basis , for the years until she died , because they knew that she would not want to leave her own home . |
| 20 | Though I knew a remarkable plumber with only a stump for a hand who worked for Uncle Ted , I could n't see Changez decorating Anwar 's shop with one arm . |
| 21 | I knew a woman who was terrified that her house would burn down . |
| 22 | I knew a south London teacher who invented an instant tradition of local environmental walks to remedy this deficiency , and called it Beating the Bounds of the Catchment Area . |
| 23 | ‘ I knew a girl who got hooked on cocaine . |
| 24 | Wish I knew a tenth as much . ’ |
| 25 | I knew a lot of other people who were both gay and punks ; there was no question of having to establish yourself . |
| 26 | And because I knew a lot of people , you 'd do things for different motives . |
| 27 | I wished I knew a few of the answers . |
| 28 | He had wanted to know if I knew a good cardiologist , because he had a granddaughter with a rare heart condition who needed an operation , or else in a year 's time she would have died . |
| 29 | At that moment I did have some kind of advantage over him , because I knew a little more about some things than he did . |
| 30 | I knew a letter had come for him . |