I knew that three or four of them were almost always present in the hall, but what they were doing, and exactly where, I could not tell.

No one knew exactly.

Fortunately, I knew almost exactly what the will had said.

The style is very condensed, with many mistakes, possibly as a quick reminder to people who had danced the dances before and knew exactly what the terms meant.

'" Still, many believe that it is unclear exactly what Reagan knew and when, and whether the arms sales were motivated by his desire to save the U. S. hostages.

Consequently the Swiss knew exactly how many athletes and officials to plan for.

He knew, however, that " there were a million issues to consider " when translating, since the book relies not only on word-play but " structural puns " as well — writing where the form and content of the work mirror each other ( such as the " Crab Canon " dialogue, which reads almost exactly the same forwards as backwards ).

Nobody knew exactly what had happened, since there were no reports about the outage.

Through his own investigations, Cicero knew exactly what was being planned.

d ) they could not be certain that the two halves of the map, held together by a binding strip glued on the back, had ever been a single sheet — unlike any other known medieval double-page map ; looking at the map, it is clear that the artist knew exactly, to the nearest millimeter, where it was going to be folded, because several place-names start or finish right next to it while none are written straight across it, and the rivers of eastern Europe run parallel to it ;

He knew exactly what he was doing.

James Berardinelli wrote that Mirkin " brings a lot of energy to the production, always keeping things moving ," while Jack Matthews of The Los Angeles Times says Mirkin " knew exactly what he had here and composed it like frames in a comic strip, ordering cheerful snow-cone colors for everything from the girls ' childlike outfits to the decor of a Laundromat.

He knew exactly what he was doing: by fighting the pitched battle, he could now retreat with the Russian army still intact, lead its recovery, and force the weakened French forces to move even further from their bases of supply.

Admiral Yi, meanwhile, knew exactly where Shimazu was, after receiving reports from scouts and local fishermen.

Bismarck alone knew exactly what he wanted, and how to attain it.

From his experiences at the Battle of Grunwald, Žižka knew exactly how his enemies would attack, and he found new ways to defeat forces numerically superior to his own.

Much of the disparity was caused by Barry's policy of combatting unemployment by creating government jobs ; The city government ’ s payrolls swelled so greatly that by 1986 nobody in the administration knew exactly how many employees it had.

Sound engineers would watch sitcoms and knew exactly which recurrent guffaws were next, even if they were viewing an episode for the first time.

The surveyors knew exactly how to properly construct these aqueducts.

The nature of the shared house market meant that not even the landlord knew exactly who was living there ; tenants were replaced, and may have shared a " single " room with their partner.

His abilities raised the morale of the team, as each member knew they were not alone in their powers, as Calvin could do exactly what they could.

At one time, it was assumed in the physical sciences that if the behavior observed in a system cannot be predicted, the problem is due to lack of fine-grained information, so that a sufficiently detailed investigation would eventually result in a deterministic theory (" If you knew exactly all the forces acting on the dice, you would be able to predict which number comes up ").

We knew exactly what we needed to do.

This book was passed around so all passengers in the door area knew exactly what to do to make sure the slide extended when the door was opened.

But if they really hoped to succeed they needed professionals, men who knew how to use a gun against men, who would match the killers on the other side.

Maybe he was only doing the best he knew how, like any of us.

He knew how to shoot down Nazis.

Now he was going to show how much he knew.

He never knew how he got there.

He knew how to channel their exuberant disorderliness so as to transform them from mere plunderers into A-1 guerrilla fighters.

Tom never knew how to condense, to boil down.

After complimenting Morgan and the riflemen and saying he was praising them to Congress, too, the ardent Frenchman added he felt that Congress should make some financial restitution to the widow and family of Morris, but that he knew Morgan realized how long such action usually required, if it was done at all.

he knew he should get to Cap, but he didn't know how.

Afraid at one and the same time that his work might be turned down -- which would be a blow to his pride even though no one knew he was the author -- and that the work would be accepted, and then that his violent feelings in the matter would certainly betray how deeply concerned he was in spite of himself.

Many times I tried to reach you, but I never knew how.

But he knew how important it was for her to keep her figure.

Each brass handle and hinge shone for his reward, and he knew how to get at the dust in the china flowers and how to take down the long glass drops which hung from the chandelier.

And at once Claude saw what the trouble was and he knew just how to correct it.

Regardless of how much of a slob you knew yourself to be, you could be certain they would never find out -- and even if they did it would make no difference.

It is already difficult to recall how little we knew before the Trial of what had been done to the Jews of Europe.

He knew Vince Steiner was one of those men who had to work up a fury once in a while just to prove how dangerous he could be.

Marty knew how the Union soldiers must have felt at Chancellorsville and Antietam and Gettysburg when the ragged gray ranks charged at them, screaming the wild banshee howl they called the Rebel yell.

He did not bother with his radio -- there would be time for that later -- but as he scrambled out on the pavement he saw the filling station and the public telephone booth and knew instantly how he had been summoned.

`` I knew it all along '', confessed Arnold with a grin, `` but I just happened to think how much nicer it would be to drop one way up there ''.

Henrietta thought, It's extraordinary how much she always knew about both of us.

For Linda knew how to help her husband, not just the Stuart-family contacts but also the little dinners for Reuben Lovejoy.

I no longer knew how deep I was, somewhere under 230 feet, getting drunker, happier and more contented by the second.