Example sentences of "[verb] know [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 All who have kept wild animals as pets or got to know them in the wild have come to realize that they each have their own personality and manner of expression , within the constraints of that species ’ natural instincts .
2 The important point about heritability is that we do not need to know anything about the actual genotypes in order to say what it is .
3 Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place .
4 You also get to know them on a personal basis too …
5 Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy .
6 I could n't remember her ever having been any different , and even Lili could n't have known her as a young woman , for Syl 's mother was old enough to have been his grandmother .
7 It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time .
8 Maxim would have known it for a British government office no matter where in the world he met it : small neon-lit with a hodge-podge of cheap furniture and painted to look scruffy even when it was surgically dean .
9 It was a nice face and , other things being equal , she would have responded to that first , she had been wanting to get to know him for a long time .
10 He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform : ‘ We know the Germans , we 've known them for a long time .
11 If he does really well he can hope for a bonus of cross-party votes : never mind Patrick 's party label , we 've known him for a long time , we like him and he 's been very helpful .
12 I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman .
13 I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War .
14 But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott .
15 His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time .
16 The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel .
17 In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation .
18 I felt that I had known it for a long time .
19 I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome .
20 I said that I had been in the British Army which prompted another Englishman called Chris to ask if I had known anybody in the Royal Signals in Aldershot or Catterick .
21 Although most Gazans — 70% of whom are under 35 — have known nothing but the Israeli occupation that started in 1967 , the young are fired with the idea of resistance , however futile .
22 It was an occasion filled with memories of a life time in the carpet business , highlighted with speeches by Ralph Ellis , Rod Turnbull , Steve Higgins and from customers who have known him for a long time .
23 Rimbaud would seem to be especially culpable since ‘ the deconstructions of semantic forms , the destabilizations of meaning , as we have known them during the past decades , derive from Rimbaud 's dissolution of the self ’ .
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