Example sentences of "knew from his " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one at the banquet could possibly have crossed the Firth of Forth in such weather with such speed and he knew from his own spies that only the King had crossed the Forth that night . |
| 2 | Indeed , more than half the Allied ships lost off Norway in 1940 foundered on shoals or rocks , as Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott knew from his service aboard a Q-ship in that campaign . |
| 3 | Luckily for Jack , Raynham , who Jack knew from his Brooklands days , was grounded after an accident . |
| 4 | When she went into the kitchen , Philip was there , and she knew from his manner that he had something to say . |
| 5 | When Gabriel arrived , Bathsheba knew from his expression which words in her note had made him come . |
| 6 | Moi , " he knew from his reading , was an Annamese term derived from the Chinese word for " savage , " and looking at the dark-skinned , low-browed men , he could see they were of a different racial stock from the Annamese ; they wore only breechclouts that left their haunches naked and they grinned and chattered animatedly in their own language as they moved quickly about their work . |
| 7 | The USSR , set against an international background of ethnic strife , was a ‘ truly unique example in the history of human civilisation ’ , as he knew from his own experience in the northern Caucasus . |
| 8 | He 'd see them around , Timothy Gedge said , but they knew from his tone of voice that they were of no further use to him . |
| 9 | But David Evans was a fair-minded young man , and knew from his historical studies that bad luck can not be avoided by even the greatest of men . |
| 10 | The reference section he already knew from his work on local history — a long , narrow room , darker than the rest of the library by reason of the heaviness of the books and their respectable bindings . |
| 11 | Unless Andrew was lying , she knew from his own lips that the evidence had vanished by the time he arrived at rue Roland . |
| 12 | She knew from his voice that he had seen the news too , and she had never been so glad to hear a friendly voice . |
| 13 | He knew from his work with the emergency services that there were particular dangers in flooded quarries but had not known that Bellrock Quarry was flooded . |