Example sentences of "i knew was " in BNC.
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| 1 | This I knew was not a sexual invitation but a protection against the evil eye . |
| 2 | All I knew was that the more I ate , the more I hated myself and my body , and the more depressed and despairing I felt of ever being back ‘ in control ’ . |
| 3 | I heard about the first one pretty soon , the next night in fact , because everyone I knew was talking about the arrival of the new beauty . |
| 4 | The Elsie I knew was a very bright girl , very self-assured , very confident , very capable , very … ’ |
| 5 | I reached for The Mayor of Casterbridge which I knew was somewhere in the bed . |
| 6 | I lay rigid , willing myself into the exhausted stupor that I knew was there waiting to engulf me again . |
| 7 | A little Gibraltarian girl with pneumonia in both lungs , was not responding to the May and Baker Lung resection I knew was in progress . |
| 8 | He seemed to answer every question I had ever asked and to have lived a life far above everything I knew was to be aimed at . |
| 9 | I went and sat in a field and experienced that great bubbling up of love for the Father and for Jesus which I expressed alternately in English and in this new language which I did not understand but which I knew was to be addressed to God and which built me up as I used it . |
| 10 | So I had stuff which I knew was good , but that did n't quite fit the group because the tunes needed to be more orchestrated . |
| 11 | During the 15 months I lived in New Jersey before my injury , just about everybody I knew was connected with the game . |
| 12 | ‘ Did you know she 's a Catholic ? ’ he asked me as though it really mattered , and he gestured with his cigarette at a crucifix that hung over the narrow bed , which I knew was there solely for sentimental purposes because it had belonged to Ellen 's dead father , but to McIllvanney it was a challenge . |
| 13 | After a lot of bad feeling , the next thing I knew was Rosenberg , the producer , was on the set every day and Brando was arguing about every scene with him instead of me . |
| 14 | She seemed to consider the proposal favourably and Princess Margaret , who I knew was keen on the idea , was supportive . |
| 15 | I explained that before I came to Arabia the only djinn or genie that I knew was Aladdin 's genie of the lamp . |
| 16 | The first I knew was a call from your old chum Roy Bliss not ten minutes ago . ’ |
| 17 | All I knew was that my life was intolerable and that the only way not to be destroyed by it , or by ‘ them ’ as I called the adult , authoritative world , was to reject them and everything they stood for . |
| 18 | All I knew was pain . ’ |
| 19 | The next I knew was when the boy came for me and told me that there were two dead bodies in the Little Vestry . |
| 20 | The next thing I knew was Gwenellen , shaking me violently . |
| 21 | He slipped something in my wine and the next thing I knew was that we were on the Continent . |
| 22 | The endearment eased the expression of pain on his face a little , but still he held me and still he searched my eyes for something I knew was n't there . |
| 23 | It seemed that there was some , because his face , which I knew was not handsome , with its thin nose and high , bony forehead and small mouth , had still some special quality for me which an unbiased analysis of the features could n't explain . |
| 24 | All I knew was that I felt married to him . |
| 25 | I found it tiring to have somebody in the house whom I knew was not really enjoying what she was doing . |
| 26 | All I knew was that I must keep him out of sight until Herbert returned . |
| 27 | All I knew was that it was buried somewhere in the middle of that sea of bricks ’ ( Orwell , 1939 ; 1962 edn , p. 117 ) . |
| 28 | All I knew was that North Yemen was on the south western coast of the Arabian peninsula , that the language was Arabic and that the country had been closed to the West until 1962 when a revolution overthrew the ruling Imamate . |
| 29 | I think the only body that I knew was er an old man McDonald , you called him , was a pack man at that time . |
| 30 | All I knew was that one afternoon while I was at the office in London someone poured petrol through my letter-box at Seaview , along with a note warning me that if I did n't get out of G.W. Fashions there would be other similarly unpleasant incidents to look forward to , and that next time the petrol would be accompanied by a lighted rag . ’ |