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Example sentences for "you knew"

  • You knew that I came here only to be educated.

  • You would be ready to fight if you knew all I know.

  • You knew I should advise it, or you would not have tortured your intellect by those researches into Bradshaw.

  • If you knew her as I do you would be proud to call her your daughter.

  • Perhaps," she resumed, "if you knew more of the world you would fear it more.

  • Oh, Belle, Belle, ii you knew how it hurts me to see such advantage taken of Miss Mildred!

  • You knew none so well, none so well as you, of my daughters flight Sal.

  • You knew of his departure, as you know What you haue vnderta'ne to doe in's absence Her.

  • But if you knew to whom you shew this honour, How true a Gentleman you send releefe, How deere a louer of my Lord your husband, I know you would be prouder of the worke Then customary bounty can enforce you Por.

  • If you knew me better, you would know that I depend on nobody but myself.

  • If you knew what my thoughts are; if you knew how hard I have fought against them, and how horribly they have gone on haunting me in the lonely quiet of this house, you would pity and forgive me.

  • If you knew, as I do, what a noble nature she has, you would not be surprised at this obstinate resistance of mine to your opinion.

  • You knew, before I met you, that I lived on my wits.

  • If you knew a lady was going to choose between a red dress and a grey one, and if you knew the lady very well, you could guess her choice before she made it.

  • If you knew a toper was to be offered as much free whisky as he could drink, you would be sure he would not come home sober.

  • If you knew an honourable man was to be offered a bribe to do a dishonourable act, you would feel sure he would refuse it.

  • It was he who consoled me in the morning assuring me that you would certainly come back to me as soon as you knew my real feelings, the loyalty of my intentions and my good faith.

  • Please do not seem as if you knew me if we chance to meet on your return to Paris.

  • If you knew me better, you would not doubt what I say.

  • You knew that to be the case; the point is its equality with the mercury I sold in Portici.

  • You knew that, alone with you in the presence of these trees, in the midst of this solitude where my love had its birth, I could not be silent!

  • If you knew how he has been treated, how they have mocked at all that is good, how they have taken pains to teach him all that leads to doubt, to jealousy, to despair!

  • I cried between my sobs, "you knew that it would kill me.

  • If you knew what an unforgettable delight it will be to me to make you a cup of tea!

  • You would be sure of that if you knew him.

  • A few months ago, you knew nothing of them.

  • You knew nothing, you were as green and ignorant as a young man from behind the counter of a country shop, but, my God!

  • You knew what it was like then to feed a genuinely starving girl.

  • If you knew everything," she continued, "you would not be so obstinate.

  • You wouldn't say that if you knew everything.

  • If you knew her as I do, you would understand.

  • Then if you knew that, why did you bring me here?

  • I was going out to tea at dear mother's to-morrow--you knew that; and you did it on purpose.

  • You could go to the other end of the ship and smoke a cigar, when you knew I should be ill--oh, you knew it; for I always am.

  • If you knew Mrs. Wiley as well as I do you wouldn't think God would want to meddle with her.

  • If you knew some of the words I COULD say if I liked you wouldn't make such a fuss over darn.

  • You knew he'd have to be killed sometime.

  • You knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not scattered seed?

  • Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father; if you knew me, you would know my Father also.

  • You knew that I was a hard man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?

  • If you knew," he said to Frantz, "if you knew how money is being squandered over yonder!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "you knew" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but which; girl whom; sorely wounded; you always; you choose; you knew; you know anything about; you know very well; you shall hear from; you tell; you would; young courtier; young fellow; young gentlemen; young gentlewoman; young lambs; young leaves; young love; young married; young officer; young officers; young soldier; your family; your ladyship; your love; your worship