Example sentences of "she knew [prep] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She never asked if she could help in the kitchen since she knew Alice would be irritated by an offer which she knew to be impractical and insincere . |
| 2 | In this new life which had been thrust upon her , she felt that she must surround herself with a little group of servants whom she knew to be loyal to her . |
| 3 | She drove slowly in Conterchi so as not to miss the turning and Italians hooted at her or raised their fingers in gestures she knew to be obscene . |
| 4 | ‘ How much sailing did you say you 'd done ? ’ he enquired in that soft even tone she knew to be lethal . |
| 5 | Perhaps the lack of self-confidence led the woman to marry a man she knew to be unsupportive in case she was not asked by anyone else . |
| 6 | With a calm she knew to be unnatural it struck her that her life was probably at an end . |
| 7 | She was cruelly obsessed with class and if her children had not come from a background that she knew to be reliable she would certainly have ignored them as she ignored the au-pair girls . |