Example sentences of "she had [adv] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes he suspected that she had even known how diminished was his remaining store of faith , that it was this essential lack and not his general inadequacy which was at the core of her disdain . |
| 2 | She had already known , half consciously , that she liked her grandmother better than she liked her mother , and loved her mother more fiercely than she loved her grandmother . |
| 3 | Despite being so many years his junior , she had instinctively known how to handle him . |
| 4 | She remembered the time she had returned the coffee she had borrowed from him , and how she had instinctively known there was a woman waiting for him in this very room . |
| 5 | She had also known that Charles would have to see his mother just as regularly after they were married as before : there were matters of state they had to discuss , and discuss in private . |
| 6 | She had been brought up in the most isolated of spots — although , perhaps , because of its very isolation and Granny Tremayne 's aloofness , she had simply known about , but not exactly experienced , communal village life . |
| 7 | Liz , like a pale convent girl too long mewed up , went wild in her first year , as she discovered the world of parties she had hitherto known only by reading and by hearsay : in those days , such was the imbalance between the sexes , women were much in demand as status symbols , as sleeping partners , as lovers , as party ballast , and Liz went out a great deal , her appearance improving dramatically as she did so . |
| 8 | Things could n't go on as they were without something happening , and she had intuitively known that when it did her life would be forever changed . |
| 9 | She looked up — into a face she had once known very well . |
| 10 | As Ariel 's voice reached through the darkness that had walled up Sycorax in pain , she tried to recall some of the things she had once known ; she murmured and found that when she did so Ariel stopped singing , so she tried not to remember out loud , but to save the retrieved pieces inside her so that the low , scraping voice of the girl she loved would not be interrupted . |
| 11 | She saw what she was searching for — the deep love she had once known before . |
| 12 | Today he was more talkative than she had ever known him , pleased with life , his eyes shining with enthusiasm . |
| 13 | As his mouth descended hungrily upon hers and he swept her down among the bracken , Tamar succumbed to a passion far greater than she had ever known before . |
| 14 | She was afraid of this savage pain , which was unlike anything she had ever known . |
| 15 | Life , from now on , was going to be quite different from anything she had ever known . |
| 16 | That , too , was on a larger scale than anything she had ever known . |
| 17 | Life , for the short space of a few weeks , was better than she had ever known it . |
| 18 | He was the most romantic man she had ever known — and the most exciting . |
| 19 | She had never heard of Peggy Guggenheim , nor of her boast that she had slept with every man she had ever known . |
| 20 | He helped her to her feet , anxiously dusting her coat , apologizing , undistressed , so courteous and unconfused that she felt that he had conferred upon her a favour , and to her amazement she heard her own voice answering , with equal , answering ease , assuring him that no , she was not hurt , no , of course it was not his fault , yes , it certainly was the roughest she had ever known it . |
| 21 | Emily tried to remember if she had ever known in the days of seeing him that he was such a strong swimmer , but nothing much came back . |
| 22 | He was the only person she had ever known whose humour seemed entirely immobile . |
| 23 | She began to cry , deep powerful gut-wrenching sobs , more painful than anything she had ever known . |
| 24 | It was the longest night she had ever known . |
| 25 | Was it too much to think that that dying little creature with the last of her strength had carried her kitten to the only haven of comfort and warmth she had ever known in the hope that it would be cared for there ? |
| 26 | The deepest pleasure she had ever known possessed her . |
| 27 | Claudia wondered if she had ever known Dana . |
| 28 | It was perhaps the most luxurious moment she had ever known . |
| 29 | He was the only man she had ever known and now the only human being she saw . |
| 30 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |