Example sentences of "we knew [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We knew marriage was on the cards . ’ |
| 2 | We knew Lord Spencer 's father and we like Charles . |
| 3 | Indeed , all of us here today are privileged by the fact that we knew Nigel . |
| 4 | I went to Scotland Yard this morning and saw an Inspector and told him all about our suspicions , and about how we knew Nigel had been down at Streatley that Saturday — ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We caught Kenny after he had been off the road and were worried that he was going to hold us up because we knew Nolan was catching up quickly , ’ explains Dean . |
| 6 | We knew Compaq would be around and it would be a technically healthy upgrade not a guddle . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We called off the surveillance after we knew Blagg had spotted us . ’ |
| 8 | and we knew peace |
| 9 | We knew Nelson Mandela would be powerful , disciplined , and clear in his sense of purpose in going to Wembley . |
| 10 | Sandra says : ‘ In our hearts we knew Kelly would n't live until Christmas . |
| 11 | ‘ We knew Mark was moving in , ’ said a neighbour . |
| 12 | we knew Chris by error , but he 's got a |
| 13 | We knew palm trees and jungle thorn trees , and the temple frangipani with its fragrant chiselled flowers , as we knew peach , plum , and cherry blossom ; and birds from flamingoes , peacocks and the brain-fever birds to bulbuls and hoopoes . |
| 14 | We knew Malcolm had been really impressed with Hell in New York because they kept up a correspondence . |
| 15 | By the teethmarks in Heather 's T-shirt we knew Penny had pulled her back from the stairs — Heather 's body did n't have a mark on it . |
| 16 | ‘ We knew people would be interested in the debate but the level of enthusiasm and the depth of knowledge shown by both the audience and the panel was extremely impressive , ’ says Wimpey Environmental managing director , Mike Lynch . |
| 17 | and we knew him quite well because er before we moved , my parents moved to Debenham , we 've lived at Trimley and he lived erm well next door but one to us and er so we knew Mr quite well . |
| 18 | We knew Souness would want his own set of players and that he 'd shift people in and out very quickly just as he had in Scotland . |
| 19 | We knew palm trees and jungle thorn trees , and the temple frangipani with its fragrant chiselled flowers , as we knew peach , plum , and cherry blossom ; and birds from flamingoes , peacocks and the brain-fever birds to bulbuls and hoopoes . |
| 20 | Stephen Ross ( no relation ) , a director with 3i in Birmingham , takes up the story : ‘ We knew Alistair Ross and respected what he had done with the other poultry business . |
| 21 | We — we knew Ronny 'd be back soon , it was near the half-hour , so we tidied up and I kissed her and — gave her a hug … |
| 22 | If you want in Colossians chapter one in verse twenty seven , it 's , it 's given again very simply , again can I use J B Phillips , he puts it like this , he says the secret is simply this , Christ in you yes he says Christ in you , bringing with him the hope of all the glorious things to come , so what God does he comes in to this situation that 's marred that 's warped , that 's twisted and he comes in by himse , Jesus Christ comes into it , he becomes the central point , the focal point and that circle , it starts to get dealt with , that marred twisted like , it does n't happen being like that , we knew creation straight away , we do n't have to work at that , but he , as we allow him to dwell in us and to work out his purpose , he restores that relationship with God and God starts to fashion us , he starts to work on us and bring us back into how he originally created us . |
| 23 | It made it worse when we knew Watson had picked up a shot here . |
| 24 | ‘ We knew Wednesday had problems at the back when long balls were played at them , so it came as no surprise when we scored on the break to make it 1–1 . ’ |
| 25 | We knew diesel car drivers go overseas more than others , so we created a package including features like free European cover . |
| 26 | As well as monitoring haulier performance , we initiated many projects where we knew savings could be made . |
| 27 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 28 | Until 15 or so years ago most of us knew pineapple only from cans — who has n't used chunks to make sweet and sour pork , or rings in an upside down cake ? |