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Example sentences for "knew about"

  • And I am convinced that as much as he knew about Cuba, all he knew was from books and so on.

  • I knew about it before he left for Dallas, that he already had work there.

  • Among other things contained in Wade's letter, which Phil had just delivered, it was evident that his new chief had asked Lawson to post the bearer in regard to Loan Company affairs, particularly to tell all he knew about J.

  • The less I knew about it the better, in case I was questioned.

  • What a lot he knew about history, about Italy; and how cleverly he told it all!

  • In the mornings, she discussed a host of details with Prince Ercole, who, notwithstanding his secluded life, knew about everything.

  • Behind that mask he knew infinitely more about me than I knew about him.

  • She knew more about it than he knew about himself, since he now knew nothing.

  • Where in the long procession of lodging and boarding-houses and summer-resorts should he meet people who knew what he knew about life?

  • If he had told Thyrsis that he was doing harm to himself, Thyrsis would have said that it was not true, and stood by it; for he knew about himself.

  • At first I thought I couldn't, because we'd been brought up together, and I knew he knew about me.

  • Lily remembered Nettie's words: I KNEW HE KNEW ABOUT ME.

  • Whereupon I told Sir Roger what I knew about him.

  • Almost before I realized it, I found myself submitted to a keen examination as to what I knew about Edgecumbe.

  • For the moment I almost determined to tell her what I believed I knew about Springfield, and about the things of which I had accused him.

  • I told all I knew about him, and I thought Jo was much interested in the statement that he had been raised at Mateel’s old home, and that they had grown up together.

  • I then told her what I knew about Barker, his curious home, and how much I admired him.

  • In the past I have told what I thought I knew about Amalgamated; from to-day I shall tell what the men who control and manage Amalgamated say they have found out about it.

  • She never uttered one word that I knew about.

  • As I recall, it was, and I told them what we knew about it.

  • Then they start coming, and over and over and over, and then I told the same thing what I knew about, and that's all I know about.

  • She never said and I have never asked her but I think I did hear from Mrs. Ford he was rather cold man; that is remark she made to me and that is only thing I knew about it.

  • Now, that must have been prior to the time that I saw this deal on television, and then the next thing I knew about Lee, it was all over television, that he had killed the President, and the rest of it you know.

  • And he asked me if they could come over, that they were writing this story on him, and I told him to come over if he wanted but I didn't think I could really help him, because it wasn't anything I knew about him.

  • Well, I knew about it over a year in advance.

  • Do you believe that I knew about Khalid's assassination a month before it happened?

  • When he came after us, we dropped on him with what we knew about him; and between us we knew a deal.

  • And because he had no idea of all I knew about him, he took things as they looked on the surface.

  • I was not going to have her think I knew about Collins, much more all the stuff Marcia had said.

  • Well, finally, Delia took Myrtle and Little Billie up to bed, and Mitch began to ask me if I knew about marriage.

  • I had never seen anybody married before, but I knew about it because when I was only 6, the first day I went to school, a boy told me all about it, and it made me so shamed I didn't know what to do.

  • So I went on tellin' Mitch how my grandpa hired Linkern once in a lawsuit; then we went to the court house, for I wanted to show Mitch some things I knew about.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been brought; calyx small; cut down; early age; knew full; knew her; knew him; knew himself; knew how; knew just; knew must; knew not; knew nothing; knew the; knew thee; knew their; knew them; knew then; knew well; knew would; perfect virtue; solar hero; state government; trust that; turning again; well contented