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Example sentences for "knew then"

  • The word rang horribly in my ears, though unpronounced; and I knew then that I lacked her courage, and the knowledge was part of my agony.

  • I knew then that I could not alter it even were I to go all the lengths of abjectness.

  • I knew then that it was her soul I loved most; I had been swept all unwittingly to its very altar.

  • I knew then, of course, that I'd made another awful break.

  • I knew then, all of a sudden, why I'd felt somebody was listening.

  • I knew then I should get the whole story.

  • All I wanted was the chance to prove what was so plain to me to others, and I knew then, what I have found so often, since then, to be true, that the chance always comes to the man who is sure he can make use of it.

  • And then, I knew then, as I know noo, that when ye fail it's aye yer ain fault, one way or anither.

  • He was wild before they were wed, but no so bad, sae far as we knew then.

  • And I knew then that I'd made a whole new countryful of friends that nicht--for after that I couldna hae doots aboot the way they'd be receiving me elsewhere.

  • We knew then that we were safe till morning did we desire it; but the Professor told me that we should not want more than an hour at most.

  • I knew then that, unknown to his mother and me, he had planned a surprise.

  • I knew then he did n't really see me nor anything else except the body of his wife somewhere in that basement.

  • He said he knew then, he couldn't get away from his past; it was livin' right there along with him.

  • He knew then at once that the whole town had heard all about his trip to Boston and what the doctors had said.

  • He was tempted once to count them--but he could not bring himself to do that; so he knew then that in his heart he did not want to know just how many days it would be before-- But there came a day when he was but two steps away.

  • I knew then that I was not to be allowed so easy a happiness.

  • I knew then, when I saw you hitting that fellow, that you'd killed Carfax.

  • I knew then when I loved you that I was being urged, by this God, to confess everything to you.

  • Because I knew then, in one look, that John Chalmers and Monty Cranch were one.

  • But the Judge drew himself up and stiffened his body and set his teeth, as he looked at that scene, and I knew then he would not break down again, but would play the game he had begun to the end.

  • I knew then, as if I had heard her command, that I must go up the slope to the Judge's house and knock upon the door.

  • I knew then that we two should understand each other.

  • I knew then I was never again to be harsh with him, let him dress as he would.

  • I knew then that I should find myself overlooking many things in him.

  • As well as I know it now I knew then in my inmost soul that I should summon Mrs. Effie before matters went farther.

  • I knew then that it must be the place we were looking for, and this made me plod on with fresh energy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    different race; fine ship; immense quantity; knew also; knew every; knew him; knew himself; knew how; knew more; knew nothing; knew something; knew that; knew them; knew they; knew well; knew what; knew where; knew would; knew you; laughed again; legal process; mile limit; only brother; relatively speaking; special effort; time came