Example sentences of "knew who 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 ! |