Example sentences of "[pron] knew [pers pn] have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I knew I had been a child when I first came to live with him . |
| 2 | I said ( I was shocked , because from what he had said about other things , I thought he must be Labour , I knew he had been a Communist once ) , I 'd rather we had the New People than poor people . |
| 3 | I knew he had been a colleague of my father ; I wondered how he knew I was on the Sort-to . |
| 4 | Yet though she knew she 'd been a fool and totally lacking in self-control , still tangled in the sensual web he 'd spun so effortlessly , she could n't regret it . |
| 5 | At the same time , she knew it had been a big mistake to lose her temper like that . |
| 6 | When they were driving along he encouraged her to talk about her father and from what she told him he knew it had been a struggle for her even to get a servant 's position . |
| 7 | He knew it had been a failure with a contemporary audience , however , and he looked very sallow and melancholy a few days after its openings . |