Example sentences of "she [verb] know [adv] " in BNC.

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1 She got to know so much about the individual and her home circumstances .
2 What she has known most intimately these last years has been intense pain .
3 Twenty years doing two shows a month , of a tiny range of parts which she has known inside-out for years — it 's a miracle her creative spirit survives at all .
4 What she 'd known instinctively from the start was absolutely right .
5 Alice thought perhaps she 'd known already she was ill .
6 She 'd known exactly what she was getting into when she had applied for a job with the commodity brokers , McKenzie Dunton .
7 She 'd known all along , deep down , that they had left her .
8 And again she recognised what she 'd known then instantly : that she loved him and that he would make a perfect father for her daughter .
9 She 'd known then who had taken it , and why Lori had left with so much friendliness .
10 She 'd known perfectly well what he meant .
11 She came to know instinctively the kind of candid , vivid anecdote that found favour with him , the sort of thing that made him chuckle with delight , and sometimes scribble it down in a note-book .
12 She seemed to know exactly what to do .
13 Of course , all magazines have their own format , which makes life much easier for the knitter who uses their patterns regularly , because she gets to know exactly how it will be laid out .
14 In Joan Halton 's attempt to be more whole , she needed to know more about her desire to come first , at least for part of the time , rather than always maintaining the veneer of premature maturity she had felt forced into adopting as a child .
15 One thing she did know however was that she was n't running after him .
16 He was right , she did know more .
17 A tall , statuesque Egyptian , she appeared to know nearly all the British and Australian officers .
18 At the beginning she had known clearly enough that he was an irrevocably solitary man , and it had seemed to her fortunate to live with him at all .
19 She had known deep down that he was a womaniser , but to think that their engagement meant so little to him that …
20 It was strange to be driving against the press of people leaving the Jerez track , but she was hardly aware of her surroundings any more ; soon she 'd be seeing Ace again , and , in spite of his bitter attack on her before the race , at least she had known deep down that he was n't ready to part from her .
21 She did n't want to remain here , to listen to all those things she had known already for herself .
22 Theda had reached down to clasp her trembling fingers lightly about the cold wrist lying on the coverlet , but she had known already that there was no pulse to be discerned .
23 There were things the men never spoke of to Angie ; and she had known instinctively that Eric 's job was something she and he would never openly discuss .
24 Looking back , Liz would try to remember the moment at which she had known rather than not known : she would have liked to have thought that she had known always , that there was no moment of shock , that knowledge had lain within her ( the all-knowing ) , that she had never truly been deceived , that at the very worst she had connived at her own deceit .
25 Looking back , Liz would try to remember the moment at which she had known rather than not known : she would have liked to have thought that she had known always , that there was no moment of shock , that knowledge had lain within her ( the all-knowing ) , that she had never truly been deceived , that at the very worst she had connived at her own deceit .
26 Most informal of all were the periods spent at the Villa Eugénie at Biarritz , the house built by the Emperor for his wife at what was then a small fishing port which she had known long before her marriage .
27 As the days meandered into each other she found herself spending all her free time painting , even though she had known almost from the start that painting him was not going to exorcise him .
28 When the initial grief of the desertion had passed she had known better than to mention her father 's name .
29 Living in such a house would nonetheless have exposed Leapor to a more leisured way of life than she had known before , though as a servant her enjoyments would have been circumscribed .
30 Perhaps it was because he did not defer to her , flatter her , praise her beauty and her charm , admire her ready wit , as all the men she had known before had done , when what they really liked and deferred to was the knowledge of her father 's immense fortune and the certainty that she was sure to inherit a great part of it .
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