Example sentences of "[Wh pn] knew [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those Simpsons , for instance , who knew the Foinmen no better than they knew Stonehenge , Dadda who bragged he had n't been on Vangmoor these twenty years . |
| 2 | These were the people , Anna thought affectionately , who knew the rules of village living , as of old . |
| 3 | ‘ If they have minds , ’ said Charles , who knew the rules of the game . |
| 4 | I leaned back against the high , wooden bench , assessing Ralemberg as a true businessman who knew the workings of the London market . |
| 5 | This was the man to whom all things were known ; this was the king who knew the countries of the world . |
| 6 | " This too was the work of Gilgamesh , the king , who knew the countries of the world . |
| 7 | Fergus knew the stories ; he knew how it was whispered that once inside the Prison of Hostages no one ever returned to the world of Men , but to Fergus , who had led the Fiana from the age of eighteen , and who knew the secrets and the devices and the weaknesses of half the ancient fortresses in Ireland , no prison was ever sealed so utterly and so completely that there was not a way out of it . |
| 8 | The Fellowship on which he had set his heart was not available , but his professor , who knew the circumstances , recommended him for a lectureship at London University College . |
| 9 | Whenever he spoke to the woman he regretted that he had not stamped his authority and demanded that Gwen should be released from Leconfield and transferred with him , but they had said in Century 's personnel that he must have a secretary who knew the ropes of the Service , and he had acquiesced . |
| 10 | I had agonised over its content , discussing it with Caroline , my wife , who knew the reservations I had over the job I was doing . |
| 11 | Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison . |
| 12 | Charles the Bald 's brother Louis , who ( though the Frenchmen of 1860 chose to forget it ) had fought alongside Charles at Fontenoy , was called rex Germaniae ( " king of Germany " ) by contemporaries who knew the classics , because his kingdom was ( like Caesar 's Germania ) " across the Rhine " . |
| 13 | At the review , Panel Members who knew the children from the previous case were called for the Hearing . |
| 14 | He was a criminal who knew the virtues of saving his money , rather than frittering it away . |
| 15 | Then Kalchu , the only one who knew the words to the Indian song , started singing . |
| 16 | In the Cleggan every disappeared hillock and mound had a name that told and contained the kernel of its history and the people who knew the names , and why they were so called , were removed to another district as anonymous to them as the place they left behind had become anonymous ’ . |
| 17 | Peregrine and Charles sped down to join spectators all of whom knew the difficulties presented by first steps in skiing , and who were now gathering to watch their less proficient comrades make fools of themselves . |