Example sentences of "[noun pl] she knew " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Christina 's thinking it was a mess , but seeing the faraway look in Stephen 's eyes she knew he viewed it differently . |
| 2 | His head turned , and although she could only just see the shadow of his eyes she knew he was looking at her . |
| 3 | If it was a battle between the two brothers she knew whose side she was on ! |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't care , ’ she said stubbornly , but even as she said the words she knew they were n't a hundred per cent true . |
| 5 | She had no idea of the age of ‘ La Felicità ’ but such houses had stood on the white furrowed hillsides in the pictures she knew by heart . |
| 6 | Even as the words left her lips she knew they sounded ridiculous . |
| 7 | You refer to her stately homes , which she cared for deeply , but more importantly round these homes she knew by name a huge number of tenants , workers and friends who always received a warm and cheerful word , and many enjoyed great generosity from her and her husband . |
| 8 | She seemed pulled out , elongated by it , so that her shoes , her new bronze slippers with rosettes on the toes that Aunt Emily had said she must keep hidden at all times if possible since legs and feet were highly indecent , seemed far further away than the five and a half feet she knew separated them from the crown of her head . |
| 9 | Before she 'd gone very far , she could see that this was n't like the fogs she knew . |
| 10 | He took her to the biggest house , whose womenfolk she knew well . |
| 11 | She spent her time building the only defences she knew . |
| 12 | Normally she would have screamed at him for the minute splinters she knew he must be creating , but now she kept her anger for other matters . |
| 13 | The family moved to the middle of the country , a contrast to the northern industrial cities she knew so well and ‘ definitely warmer ’ than the West of Sheffield . |
| 14 | Within about 10 days she knew that when the phone rang at night it would be Tony , despite never having seen a phone before . |
| 15 | And Clara , walking by her side and hearing these words , burst suddenly and at last into loud hysterical weeping , and as the tears flooded down her hot cheeks she knew that they were not for her father , but for the meanness and the lack of love , and for the fear that she would die in so ugly a hole , and so unloved . |
| 16 | Cripples she knew about . |
| 17 | Cripples she knew about . |
| 18 | She spilt liquid things and broke hard ones ; she slipped on banana-skins in the street , and even in places she knew quite well she frequently lost her way . |
| 19 | Sally knew her mother had trouble making ends meet on the nine pounds ten shillings a week that her father brought home from his job as an electrician 's mate and she did n't have the heart to plead for luxuries she knew they could not afford as Paula did . |
| 20 | Now she decided that an active and harmless occupation was what he needed , a pursuit within the powers she knew to be passing from his skill and prowess with horses . |
| 21 | She comforted him ; and meanwhile thought to herself that tomorrow she would go round the managers she knew , having met them more than once in the company of Papa . |
| 22 | She was forgetting everything else — the sub-language she spoke , things she knew , chunks of her past , people she had killed — but she had a clear memory of the way the world really looked . |
| 23 | Alice , well used to such situations , was standing her ground , was not hurt , or offended , or any of the things she knew Faye wanted her to be . |
| 24 | But sometimes Creggan and Kraal would ask Minch questions and she would speak of things she knew and wisdom she had taught herself or remembered from her distant past at Callanish . |
| 25 | Stephen was felled by the things she knew . |
| 26 | She became a snob ; she thought only of smart society ; and finally she tried to turn her uncle out of the very house in which the most useful things she knew had been inserted into her brain . |
| 27 | Those things she knew about Gus Hambro which did not fit into this picture , such as his manipulations over the room at the inn , she did not care to mention to anyone until she herself understood them better . |
| 28 | Of all things she knew that that was not true . |
| 29 | And in her heart of hearts she knew that the sight of him , the sound of his voice , would demolish the wall she was trying to build to separate the present from the past . |
| 30 | 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 . |