Example sentences of "but he know [pron] " 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 | Mair sometimes grudged the work and time it involved but he knew its importance . |
| 3 | Mr Wolski did not want the eagle caught but he knew its chances of escape were very low . |
| 4 | Steve never worked in the shipyard , but he knew what it was like from Dad and Grandad and all their mates . |
| 5 | They were n't good times , of course , they were terrible , but he knew what she meant . |
| 6 | But he knew what he was looking at , though to the untrained eye it was just a pile of minuscule fragments . |
| 7 | Ian was very upset by his father 's intransigent attitude but he knew what he wanted to do and that was to pursue his studies by every means possible , although by now doubts were beginning to cloud his mind . |
| 8 | But he knew what Matchsticks meant . |
| 9 | No one would dare say that it was his fault outright , but he knew what was going on in everyone else 's mind . |
| 10 | But he knew what they said : |
| 11 | But he knew what he would see . |
| 12 | Your grandfather was too old , but he knew what you came to know . |
| 13 | He had never taken part in a ransom drop personally before , but he knew what an extremely delicate moment it was . |
| 14 | But he knew what she meant . |
| 15 | He had his little peccadilloes , the quaint and rather Machiavellian ways to gain his little ends , but he knew me and I knew him , and in essentials he made good . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ But he knew her . ’ |
| 17 | A furlong separated them but he knew her at once . |
| 18 | He said my words were of pellucid clarity and great wisdom , but he knew nothing of poison , and if I wished to complain , he would be glad to take sherbet with you , or with Zacco . |
| 19 | But he knew nothing of the Pacific 's tides . |
| 20 | But he knew nothing about Gregory VII 's comprehensive decree of 1078 against lay investiture . |
| 21 | But he knew nothing of the practical techniques of modelling and carving . |
| 22 | He had never actually seen one , but he knew they were there . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They would celebrate with him but he knew they would be envious . |
| 25 | The team inside the car , three of them , would occasionally turn on the engine and try to warm themselves , but he knew they 'd feel the cold after such a freezing night . |
| 26 | He had given up dashing through to adjoining rooms running to look downstairs or above , craning his head out of windows to look for hovering helicopters , but he knew they were there somewhere all right , he knew what they were up to . |
| 27 | Luiza and Freddi were there but he knew they would be hopeless . |
| 28 | But he knew they 're bred for working and when he retired he decided to give it a go . |
| 29 | But he knew she 'd cut him off . |
| 30 | He thought for a moment that if she would only accept his feelings for Carrie he would go to her this minute and put his arms about her and comfort her , but he knew she would never accept Carrie . |