Example sentences of "knew [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew who the other boy was . |
| 2 | All day long he insisted that they already knew who the fellow-Communists of his branch had been in the Forties and that he did not want to ‘ crawl through the mud for no purpose ’ . |
| 3 | But we never knew who the other three were . ’ |
| 4 | As they passed through the hall , she saw him glance at the picture that was hanging there , and asked him on an impulse if he knew who the original was . |
| 5 | That might in itself imply that she felt for some reason that she would be suspected , or perhaps she knew who the killer was and preferred to keep quiet . |
| 6 | She took it for granted that each knew who the other was , and standing aside to motion him in she said : ‘ It 's good of you to be so accommodating , Mr Dalgliesh . |
| 7 | The participating banks each knew who the other participants were , but the figures in the report were presented so that readers could not work out which figures came from which bank . |
| 8 | In the far realms and colonies no-one knew who the true king was . |
| 9 | Fight fans knew who the champions were ; the prize was worth having . |
| 10 | The mother of one of the victims maintained that although the girls were referred to in court only by their first names to protect them from reprisals , she was particularly worried that people in the court 's public gallery knew who the girl was . |
| 11 | And in that moment , Joseph suddenly knew who the three men were ; only Katherine Lundy 's men would be enquiring after Patrick . |
| 12 | Murder : he remembered the first chilling thrill of the word in the school playground , when it was still something to be excited about and before he knew who the victim was , or the chief suspect . |
| 13 | Hence I never knew who the culprit was and was never put into possession of the document or documents which existed and which would certainly have identified that person , since each copy of the minutes had , on my advice , been numbered . |
| 14 | He asked whether anyone knew who the woman was . |
| 15 | She knew who the man on the boat with Sabine Jourdain was . |
| 16 | I knew who the murderer was , but I could not tell anyone . |
| 17 | She thought that she knew who the lucky man might be , and it took all her strength of mind not to betray the dreadful emotions which merely thinking of him aroused in her . |
| 18 | He thought he knew who the tall young man might be . |
| 19 | Well if I knew who the hell Dawn 's brother was ! |
| 20 | A third is that many of the buy-outs and recapitalisations succeeded because the managers knew something the shareholders did not about future cash flows . |
| 21 | The demonstrators knew something the demolition workers did n't . |
| 22 | ‘ I knew it the moment I saw it last Sunday . |
| 23 | Tonight 's crowd was a good one — Rory knew it the second her fingers curled possessively round the microphone , the atmosphere reaching out to enfold her like a lover 's embrace , and she revelled in it , her eyes glowing , her whole body tingling in response . |
| 24 | I have n't , I have n't got a clue but I knew it the minute the second you said it I knew it . |
| 25 | Sally Jones , the sports presenter , clearly knew what the plural of Grand Prix was . |
| 26 | Hau knew what the Khmer Rouge could do . |
| 27 | He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists . |
| 28 | We both knew what the other one meant but we never said it in so many words . |
| 29 | The right hand never knew what the left was doing . |
| 30 | He wished he knew what the time was . |