Example sentences of "[pers pn] knew [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Once I knew about the other woman , I realised we 'd been drifting apart and that , at weekends , I 'd felt quite distant . |
| 2 | I knew about the famous Sherlock Holmes . |
| 3 | I knew about the bad weather , and I had learned later that , on account of this , the plane had been recalled without accomplishing its mission . |
| 4 | I knew on the one hand that he was playing some kind of trick on me ; a trick like the one with the loaded dice . |
| 5 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 6 | ‘ The first I knew of the positive test came in a letter from the Jockey Club . |
| 7 | I told them all I knew except the one thing the great cardinal wanted . ’ |
| 8 | I knew from the first moment you were the man for her . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I knew from the very start that you sent that poison pen letter , Eleanor . |
| 10 | I knew from the thick fragrance that filled the air that it was Mrs. Constantine . |
| 11 | Leith had grown fond of both of them , and , feeling sorry for them , she knew at the same time that this was something they would have to work out for themselves . |
| 12 | Luce thought over what she knew about the other woman . |
| 13 | Her friends did not think of her as a drunk and Rachel would be truly shocked if she knew about the long nights of insomnia and secret alcohol . |
| 14 | This was her way of thanks — the only way , perhaps , that she knew in the pitiful misery of her life . |
| 15 | Normally , although his massive body dwarfed her own , he showed her consideration in his bed , but she knew from the rare occasions when it had happened before that drinking heavily coarsened his sexual appetites . |
| 16 | She knew from the frequent worried glances the other woman sent in her direction that Candy had seen through the act , but she 'd managed with some effort to avoid her , always finding some pretext to disappear in the opposite direction whenever Candy appeared on the horizon . |
| 17 | His expression was unreadable , but she knew from the hot breath flowing over her breasts that he was finding the procedure as erotic as she was . |
| 18 | It had the same feel to it that she knew from the long hours she 'd spent experiencing the mass-market romantic slush that Madreidetic packed into their holos . |
| 19 | Basically my father who I believe you knew in the Sixties … he organised lots of the roadhouse shows ? |
| 20 | We knew on the other hand that Redbridge and Waltham Forest was not a competent authority and it could not have achieved this scale of planning . |
| 21 | In his spotless home , amongst his large and benevolent family , we were fed enormous meals , shown their exotic collection of shells and sponges , and pumped for all we knew about the outside world . |
| 22 | We knew about the social side and we knew about the , the shop was our shop . |
| 23 | Russian writers actually lived simultaneously in the two worlds — the ancient communalism of the peasantry , which so many of them knew from the long summers on their seignorial estates , and the world of the westernised and much-travelled intellectual . |
| 24 | Only John and Nora could see it , for only they knew of the terrible demand that would sooner or later be made on their resources — and it was going to be well over the hundred thousand that John had estimated . |
| 25 | These candidates simply vomited over the page everything they knew upon the two topics ; they made no attempt to bring their knowledge into relation with the question , and did not even divide off their answer by the ( a ) and ( b ) of the question . |
| 26 | All he knew of the early Daurog myth was the creation myth . |
| 27 | Yes , he knew Henry Stych , and , yes , he knew of The Cheaper Sex ; he had confiscated a copy of it from a Grade 10 child only this morning . |
| 28 | It is not precisely clear when he knew of the extra cases . |
| 29 | However , he knew of the sacred prophecies . |
| 30 | Gide 's response nicely if unawares repudiates the sexual-difference view of homosexuality as a solipsistic refusal of the other : ‘ how little he knew of the human heart ! — of mine at any rate … |