Example sentences of "[pers pn] knew [pers pn] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came around the next time all I seen was smoke … and I knew we put the final bullet in him , ’ Destefani said after emerging from the cockpit of his winning racer . |
| 2 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah , but I knew we had a first-class lifeguard on board . ’ |
| 4 | Imagine that somehow I knew you regarded the proposed arrangement with distaste . |
| 5 | I knew I wanted a black and white hall with marbling , and also metal runners across the stairs . |
| 6 | So I just went I knew I did the only thing that I knew I could do . |
| 7 | ‘ I knew I needed a good right to win . |
| 8 | I knew he had a private hope that some day he might make a book with them . |
| 9 | Ahead of her she knew she had a tough day hosting a TV show about cancer , the disease which first struck Mae-Britt 22 years ago . |
| 10 | For herself , she wished she could have bought one of the paintings , she knew she had the ideal space for it on one of the walls of her long white sitting room in Kington Square . |
| 11 | Her hair was untidy and her face still on fire and she knew she presented a distraught sight . |
| 12 | She felt , in her new severity ( for want of a better word ) only half alive , she knew she wanted the old enthusiasms and passions and expectations to course through her and arouse her . |
| 13 | She knew he had an early appointment with one of his lawyers and hoped that that was what was distancing him from her this morning . |
| 14 | She knew he had the proverbial wife and two kids at Camberley . |
| 15 | And just as surely she knew he wanted the same thing . |
| 16 | We knew we had a tough target to go for . |
| 17 | He knew she had a failed marriage with a strange son , Steve . |
| 18 | Jack froze , not knowing what he should do , and when he looked at Steve beside him , he knew he felt the same . |
| 19 | From that moment he had had respect for Blanche : he knew it took a rare combination of self-confidence and courage to admit she had been wrong . |