Example sentences of "but he know [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His audience was the crew , and the language their own , but he knew we sensed the content of the canisters of venom dropped into our claustrophobic sanctum . |
| 2 | He said he was sorry for not visiting more often , sorry for not being there , for not , for not , for not , these omissions of his , these confessions , they rose into his closed mouth until it seemed that he might choke , they were jumbled up , dislocated , like old bones in a crypt , but he knew they fitted together , he knew they would form a skeleton where he could hang the flesh and muscle of his guilt . |
| 3 | There was n't a note , but he knew she 'd gone for good . |
| 4 | It was too dark in the small room to see by her expression if Isabel remembered also , but he knew she did . |
| 5 | ‘ I know I went to the ice rink and the pictures with Bill O'Hagan but he knew I went out with other fellows as well . |
| 6 | He was somewhat mollified to find that Armstrong was a cab and he could ride in the back and scowl at me , but he knew I thought it was a lousy idea going down to Brixton to track down Lewis Luther . |
| 7 | Lachlan was near heaving the shipmaster overboard , but he knew he 'd been wrong . |
| 8 | It cost Galvone a lot to say that but he knew he 'd blundered . |
| 9 | He tried to persuade himself that he 'd locked it but he knew he had n't . |
| 10 | He opened the other drawer but he knew he had n't put them in there . |
| 11 | Nigel was not quite sure Eleanor believed him , but he knew he had presented a plausible explanation . |
| 12 | He desperately needed a drink but he knew he had to get through the next little while — ten minutes , half an hour , an hour — completely sober . |
| 13 | Monument Hill was the last place he wanted to go to , but he knew he had to see it again for himself . |
| 14 | Jack had no idea but he knew he had to do something . |
| 15 | Edouard had already begun his campaign to persuade his mother to divert some of her capital holdings into an expansion programme for de Chavigny , but he knew he had to proceed slowly . |
| 16 | He was aware of the immense arrogance of this , but he knew he had not mistaken that long , steady look . |
| 17 | But he knew he had to be patient . |
| 18 | But he knew he had n't reached that point yet . |
| 19 | Martin was afraid of the churchyard but he knew he had to go inside . |
| 20 | He did n't know what was happening between Gesner and Suzi any more , had n't seen either of them since the Season began , since that dreadful scene at Willi 's party , but he knew he had to submit himself to yet another bout of torture and watch them together on the stage . |
| 21 | He did n't hate her , and he certainly did n't want to hurt her , but he knew he had just done the best thing he could ever do for Sandra Bamfield . |
| 22 | He 's attracted to me , but he knows he does n't love me … |