Example sentences of "[pers pn] knew [pron] could [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had never suspected she had ever loved any man but Simon Ellis and I knew she could not have been referring to him since she had never spoken of him without affection and great kindness . |
| 2 | I knew she could n't swim so it was obvious she drowned . ’ |
| 3 | I knew I could not control my feelings much longer , and I needed time to think . |
| 4 | I knew I could not hide from him , so I opened the curtains wide . |
| 5 | But as I looked into her lovely face , I knew I could not live with the lie . |
| 6 | I knew I could n't do it alone , ’ Lucy said . |
| 7 | For example , I knew I could n't squat for fifteen minutes on a bed or a floor . |
| 8 | This time I knew I could n't fail . |
| 9 | I knew I could n't last out fifteen minutes of such silence and that I , at least , would get a childish attack of nervous giggles . |
| 10 | I knew I could n't face it again . |
| 11 | It was n't until the party that I knew I could n't pretend to myself any longer . |
| 12 | I lay on my back and watched it for a second , then got up and ran after her as fast as I could , again just because I knew I could n't catch her . |
| 13 | I knew I could n't trust him … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I knew I could n't trust you , although you checked out OK on my instrumentation , I 'll have to look into that . |
| 15 | I knew I could n't begin to match them . |
| 16 | I knew I could never inflict her as a mother on Kirsty , but I was totally trapped by the promise I 'd made . |
| 17 | I told myself I 'd have an abortion , although I knew I could never go through with it , and I was so relieved when my period came . |
| 18 | I knew I could never live with them again , but I thought … |
| 19 | I pretended to despise such modern aids , but that was really a defensive reaction because I knew I could never afford such frills for Masquerade . |
| 20 | I knew it could n't work . |
| 21 | Things started so well at the weekend I knew it could not last . |
| 22 | Not that I bore him any personal ill-will ; it was simply that I knew he could n't stay . |
| 23 | I knew he could n't resist being asked his professional opinion . |
| 24 | I knew he could not stay at my hotel . |
| 25 | It was none of my business , and I knew he could still feel the cold stone of that floor at the hotel while death hammered insistently just above his head . |
| 26 | Sally knew her mother had trouble making ends meet on the nine pounds ten shillings a week that her father brought home from his job as an electrician 's mate and she did n't have the heart to plead for luxuries she knew they could not afford as Paula did . |
| 27 | So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted . |
| 28 | He drove so smoothly and the tyres hummed so pleasantly on the tarred road that she knew she could easily have slept . |
| 29 | For the first time since she had moved back into the house , she knew she could n't face an evening with Jacob . |
| 30 | Suddenly she knew she could n't face him again in this new vulnerability — could n't look into his eyes and see sympathy . |