I had lived among them all my life, and I knew what must be done.
Father said man was born a praying animal, and no matter how wicked he was, if he had an accident, or saw he had just got to die, he cried aloud to the Lord for help and mercy before he knew what he was doing.
I was thinking, for I knew what the "fly in the ointment" was.
I don't think the Lord helped me any that time, for I knew whatit took--before, they just went.
So I played up to Tommy with all my might, and though he became very discreet after the first betrayal, having hit upon the clue, I knew what to look for, and I found it.
I understand they come off Borthwick Water side," he replied, but I saw by his eyes that he knew what I meant.
Who could say; perhaps he had a bit of a sly little thought in his mind for all his stolid simpleness; maybe he knew what he was doing after all, trying to tempt the blue sky now, at the change of the moon.
Ay, a madcap was Gustaf, but he knew what he was doing!
To his father and those at home he made it appear that he was proud at having secured Storborg at the very price he had fixed--it would show them he knew what he was about.
The grip of the sucking sand was yet pulling at his legs and body; while if the branch broke he knew what it meant; that sucking, insistent pulling, and caving away beneath his feet told him.
It hit so blame hard, Miss Chicken, that it knocked me down and knocked me out, and Mr. Bruce picked me up and carried me three blocks in his car before I got my wind or knew what ailed me.
Nellie performed and sang so well, and in my soul I knew what I could understand and liked in music she scorned.
If we knew what we were really seeking, we should know where to go to look for it.
But he knew what a distance their ages seemed just now to put between them,--a distance which would grow practically less and less with every year, and he did not wish to risk anything so long as there was no danger of interference.
Murray Bradshaw laughed, and told Mrs. Clymer Ketchum not to worry about him; he knew what he was doing.
It was no time for empty words of consolation: I knew what he had lost, and that now was not the time to intrude upon a grief borne as men bear it, felt as women feel it.
He knew what a nervous woman is, and how to manage her.
If it should prove, as it seemed likely, that there was springing up a serious attachment tending to a union between them, he knew what he should do, if he was not quite so sure how he should do it.
After what had passed between the Sergeant and me, I knew what it was that he had left unspoken as well as he knew it himself.
I knew what it would be like--two weeks of paradise, and little enough for another twelve months at Nahala.
And I knew what it meant--it meant that the words Roy is safe had been printed in great big black letters across the sky.
I just looked at him and it gave me the creeps, because I knew what he had done.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knew what" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
