Example sentences of "[verb] know [pron] [prep] the [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 | It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time . |
| 5 | I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |