Example sentences of "knew [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be inferred from the decision in the Northwestern Utilities case that if the occupier knew or might with reasonable care have ascertained , that the danger existed , he is liable for its escape . |
| 2 | Of course he knew he would hang for the offence , but he also knew that humanity is not an endangered species , and reckoned therefore that twenty-seven ( did you say twenty-eight ? ) |
| 3 | In a study of nearly 650 children aged 14 to 17 , 98% knew that smoking harmed their health and 89% knew that passive smoking was harmful — yet one in five were , or had been , smokers . |
| 4 | He accepted this programme , and half knew that Montini would have to carry it through . |
| 5 | Even the humblest peasant probably knew that embalming entailed mutilation and evisceration of the corpse , and that such a ‘ privilege ’ was reserved for kings and queens and certain high officers and nobles of the land . |
| 6 | I knew that Will loved that boy of his — red-haired , bright as a new penny , full of life . |
| 7 | In that instant she knew that standing before her was the most exciting man she had ever met . |
| 8 | It should have been a new beginning , a clean slate but , as she rode out the following morning , her head clouded from lack of sleep , Kelly knew that life was never that easy . |
| 9 | ‘ We knew that criticism was unwarranted , and we 've proved the knockers wrong , but we 're still only halfway to finishing the job . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We knew that criticism was unwarranted , and we 've proved the knockers wrong , but we 're still only halfway to finishing the job . ’ |
| 11 | Evan Campbell , or John Hay , or Laughland Vass , or perhaps all three Highlander guides , knew that milk could be had from the Macraes of Auchnasheal ; the travellers sat down outside a house and were brought wooden dishes — Johnson calls them ‘ pails ’ — of milk . |
| 12 | Although everyone in Rush River told the story the same way , most of them said ‘ and their slaves ' instead of ‘ and their people , ’ but Martha knew that Nana did not like the word ‘ slave . ’ |
| 13 | Tuathal , who knew that thoroughness was the secret of success , had long since extracted from Thorkel Fóstri all that he could tell about Earl Siward of Northumbria , and had deduced a good deal more . |
| 14 | ‘ And they say that everyone knew that Dierdriu would never be faithful to one man . |
| 15 | She knew that grin , it meant something had happened , but she was n't going to ask what . |
| 16 | The new men knew that film could be shown anywhere , in any old storeroom or vacant shop , and even away from the cities in booths and makeshift structures in fairgrounds , on waste ground , and in fact anywhere crowds were likely to gather . |
| 17 | Every long service worker employed at the plant and within the division knew that union restrictive practices had lowered productivity to below the levels achieved on the continent . |
| 18 | I knew that voice almost as well as I knew the theme from Doctor Zhivago . |
| 19 | Tom : ‘ I mean , I doubt if anyone ever knew that bloke existed until the stories . ’ |
| 20 | He knew that escape would not be made by force but , even so , his mind returned again and again to the grains and snippets of stories that had somehow ( how ? ) permeated into the world of Men . |
| 21 | She was paralysed , could n't focus , knew that Gran could n't hurry herself getting dressed and needed help . |
| 22 | If the Victorian era was over , the example set by Queen Victoria during her long reign was still fresh in the mind , and all women who had the right amount of sense and spirit knew that attack was the best form of defence when dealing with men who liked to lay down the law . |
| 23 | We decided to abandon the piano lessons , Constance , ’ Miss Hatherby chided , ‘ as you well recall , because we knew that progress was not being made . |
| 24 | Now even Eiker would n't say she could n't keep up with him — having seen the speed of Ember 's reactions , she knew that imminence was sharper than studs . |
| 25 | Hank was the product of a boom town and knew that money earned money extremely fast ; with luck , he could double and treble his capital by investment in Tollemarche . |
| 26 | Diana then knew that divorce was out of the question . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And Branson knew that Virgin stood a better chance of achieving that than either EMI or A&M had done . |
| 29 | The person who called me a positivist went on to add that everyone knew that positivism was out of date — another case of refutation by denigration . |
| 30 | He knew that shock , grief , trauma took people in different ways , and if this bizarre opening was helping her , he could conceal his impatience . |