Example sentences of "[adv] know him " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I only know him as Pie , ’ Chant said .
2 But they only know him as Graham .
3 But Dr Kent , you obviously know him , would you say he was capable of misreading a patient 's notes ? ’
4 She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend .
5 It 's ridiculous — I 've only known him for a few weeks .
6 I 've only known him a few weeks , after all . ’
7 She 'd only known him a few hours yet every cell of her body seemed sensitised to his presence .
8 ‘ You 've only known him for a few months ! ’
9 He only knew him by his codeword , Seabird .
10 O' course , I only knew him a few years after he got married .
11 We really only knew him through childhood over-the-counter dealings smiling , ever-patient , avuncular .
12 ‘ All the better not to know him then , ’ said Lili .
13 Harry was puzzled that Nicholas seemed not to know him .
14 How unusual that word appeared from his lips , of course you , who did not know him , can not conceive . ’
15 Alexia did not know him well , he realised .
16 The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town .
17 She takes a short cut down Avondale Road , and passes the five-bedroom detached house of Vic Wilcox without a glance , for she does not know him from Adam , and the house is outwardly no different from any of the other modern executive dwellings in this exclusive residential district : red brick and white paint , ‘ Georgian ’ windows , a tarmac drive and double garage , a burglar alarm prominently displayed on the front elevation . )
18 Evidence from all over the world suggests that women have all the gifts needed to be effective and caring priests : to bring the love of Christ to those who do not know him and to be enablers of others .
19 You may not know him ,
20 ‘ I have lived with my husband for twenty years and still I do not know him . ’
21 Twenty years I have lived with the same man and still I do not know him .
22 We have never slept apart and still I do not know him .
23 I have borne his child and still I do not know him .
24 I am Catholic and can not divorce but I do not want to divorce because I do not know him well enough to want to divorce him .
25 ‘ Then you are deluded , my darling , because you do not know him .
26 ‘ Because you did not know him .
27 For twenty years I have known the same man and yet still I do not know him .
28 God , by his unpredictable and uncontainable Spirit , is guiding the destinies of nations and individuals who do not know him , or deny his very existence .
29 I do n't know the driver and I would rather not know him .
30 SHE had feared that she would not know him any more … that his 1,943 days of hell as a hostage would have left them strangers .
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