Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to know [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he was at Arista , Charles and I got to know each other well . |
| 2 | Gradually Elizabeth and I got to know each other ; Elizabeth already knew something of me from The Last Enchantments . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , I got to know many of the leading linguists of the subsequent generation : , , , all passed through the MIT graduate school at that time . |
| 4 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 5 | Well it was a town then but since then it 's been made a city , you see , and I got to know all kinds of people and one gentleman came in there , used to come every evening and write a book and er , I used to look after him if I happened to be that end and er , you see , and then he 'd say , oh just an exchange you know about the weather and just in general thing and then I 'd leave him and he 'd get on with his writing and one day he said to me . |
| 6 | Oh , yes , I got to know these well as I slunk past like a hungry fox in a deserted kitchen yard . |
| 7 | Er but she 's a member and we went there for lunch and it was the ideal place , you know , cos there were n't any , many people around and so we had quite a nice lunch and erm whilst we were there we then had a drink in er in the bar and erm her the , the secretary of the club , a lady , came to talk to Barbara and she mentioned that she 'd seen her on Blind Date you see , and so I got to know more by listening to them two speaking er and er that 's where I learnt about er that . |
| 8 | It occurred to me , when I got to know some of these families , that they really might believe that their position on the hill placed them nearer to heaven than the less privileged folk below . |
| 9 | At least I got to know some of the background to the paintings ; the symbolism and the profundity of meaning . |
| 10 | Everyone seemed to know each other ; the four walls resounded to the brayings of renewed insincerity . |
| 11 | And you got to know all these things , you got to know the peculiarities of what they liked best doing you see , and everything like that . |
| 12 | There were only about 50 participants , which meant you got to know most of them . |
| 13 | At last Sims said : ‘ It was Mrs Howard who came to know that . |
| 14 | He had known the poor child was not robust : this was the basis on which he had been invited to treat , through an English lady , an Oxford acquaintance , then at Nice , who happened to know both his needs and those of the amiable American family looking out for something really superior in the way of a resident tutor ( 11 ) . |
| 15 | In this one we had n't told you that you had to strip formwork , that you had to er , make the formwork , that you had to fix the steel , you had to know this from your own knowledge . |
| 16 | But happen it 's for the best ; you had to know some time . |
| 17 | She wanted to know all about the Tyrrell Society , of which Willy , Alan and I were members . ’ |
| 18 | And now , suppose you tell me why you wanted to know all this ? ’ |
| 19 | Uncle Alfred explained about dogs to Anabelle , who wanted to know all about them . |
| 20 | Those who wanted to know that is . |
| 21 | Oh did n't you know , I could 've told you that you know then we got to know all the all the things when it was too late but as regards my mother telling us anything brrr no . |
| 22 | We got to know all the money he had from these grants to get all these machines and all these . |
| 23 | And we got to know all the people there . |
| 24 | ‘ Although I tended not to write about her once we got to know each other , she has never asked me not to publish anything . |
| 25 | So erm the surrogate was artificially inseminated herself erm er , it took us seven months to achieve a pregnancy , and during this time we got to know each other very well |
| 26 | That meant he and Sara had hours and hours of hanging around together waiting to be called — and they got to know each other rather well . |
| 27 | But as they got to know each other Annabelle discovered that Steven liked the arts as much as the sciences/hiking as well as driving/driving cars as well as repairing them . |
| 28 | Later , when they came to know each other better , the pupil might graduate to calling him ‘ Lewis ’ , but this would be in the case of intimates . |
| 29 | They wanted to know much more , much earlier . |
| 30 | By the frequency of his visits he came to know most of the artists and was fond of addressing them in a loud voice by their first names as they came out of the studio . |