Example sentences of "she know [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 How did she know it had been like that ?
2 She knew everyone watched her carefully , not knowing how to interpret her steady dutifulness , not crediting that it would last .
3 She did n't know their names ; she would n't have recognized their faces ; but she knew they existed .
4 She knew they mated for life , and though she did not think much of married bliss , yet she approved of constancy .
5 She knew they 'd been on the verge of drawing at least a little closer to each other , yet she had been the one to ruin the opportunity .
6 Yet surely she knew they had no way of paying , should she demand it ?
7 They reassured her that she looked beautiful , and she knew they had bought the dress for her .
8 She knew they had different fathers and she knew that in each case there was only a certain number of possibilities , but beyond that all was obscure .
9 She knew they had had a visitor last night , but no one had told her who it was or why they 'd come .
10 That was how she knew they had arrived .
11 ‘ Very well , ’ sighed Isabel , obeying only because she knew they had to find shelter , and there was none where they stood .
12 Inwardly she exulted , for she knew they had won .
13 She knew they had triplets and their approximate age .
14 Even as the words left her lips she knew they sounded ridiculous .
15 Never let them think she knew they fancied her .
16 She knew what had happened but she had completely forgotten the details — including the description of the perpetrator .
17 She knew what had happened , all right : she was being slowed down again .
18 She knew what had happened but could not be bothered to deal with it .
19 And before she knew what had happened , his knuckles had slipped inside her pelvis , and she had swallowed his whole fist inside her dewy cavern .
20 She knew what had happened straight away ; she did n't need to work it out .
21 Instantly she knew what had caused it .
22 The home-help , too , had seen films on television : she knew what happened at the scene of a crime .
23 Then he 'd tell Phil Simpkin that he was having trouble with one of the staff , and she 'd be out on her wiggly bottom before she knew what hit her .
24 Oh well she knew her did she ?
25 She knew we 'd got a clue , even if she did n't know what it was .
26 Was it because she knew we 'd had an affair and was jealous or was it the heartbreak of coming face to face with Steve ? ’
27 However thirty-six hours before she died she telephoned for some of us to visit ; she knew we had all been worried and concerned but she had it all under control .
28 She was part Mulholland on her mother 's side and she knew we had fallen from the middle class or , to be precise , that her mother had married down , even though she loved her father .
29 ‘ Perhaps she knew we had proof of her treachery , but there is no need for her to fear our vengeance . ’
30 Furthermore , he had always related to her on an intellectual level , unlike the majority of men she knew who saw her as just another pretty face ( to try a line on ) , and although she and Whitlock never mixed socially , only ever meeting up at work , she had come to regard him as one of her few real friends .
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