Example sentences of "[verb] know [pron] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 2 | She had known William as a boy and as an adolescent ; she was beginning to know him as an adult and as a lover ; but between the two blocks of knowledge was a ten-year gap . |
| 3 | He 's we do n't really get to know him as a person . |
| 4 | You want to get to know me at a rate |
| 5 | We 've known them for a while , they 've been travelling to games solidly for years and are better fans on that score than I 've ever been . |
| 6 | I had known him for a number of years . |
| 7 | Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance . |
| 8 | Barbara was wonderful : unlike some people who had known him as a child , she treated him as an adult . |
| 9 | He denied knowing anything about a plan to abduct the driver or that guns might have been involved . |
| 10 | We need to know something of an animal 's mind . |
| 11 | It is this structuralist mode , through which the particularities of the object world at a given time may help generate the objectifications by which a set of social relationships comes to know itself through an array of everyday taxonomies which makes Bourdieu 's work such an advance on previous analyses of consumption . |