Example sentences of "know [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably if ‘ Damnation Derek ’ had bothered to talk to people and get to know them a bit before preaching at them , he would have discovered that they would want to ask him some questions about what he believed . |
| 2 | But you get to know lots of others to talk to and that and on trips to away matches then you get to know them a lot better . |
| 3 | Yes with with the membership being on the doorstep , we do get to know them a lot better . |
| 4 | I think events proved that she had come to know me a little better , and talked to me , and tried to find out what I was planning and what I was doing , and how David 's career was going , and co-operated with me to assist David , I think he would have had a much happier period ahead of him . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd have to know you a lot better before telling you such things . ’ |
| 6 | They use it to help prepare themselves for the interview — i.e. to get to know you a bit before you arrive and work out the questions they are going to ask you . |
| 7 | When he got to know her a bit better , he was further excited by her strength of will , her independence , her commitment to the Irish nationalist cause , and — best of all , he reckoned — her utterly straight-faced enthusiasm for his explorations of the Celtic spirit-world . |
| 8 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 9 | Maybe she was simply a bargirl , a cashier , an all-purpose heft-dispenser … and maybe I had already got to know her a little too well . |
| 10 | Of course he had got to know him a good deal better at Ecalpemos … |
| 11 | ‘ And I 'd advise you to reserve judgement on him till you get to know him a little better ! ’ |
| 12 | And when when he gets to know us a bit better we got quite a welcome tonight . |
| 13 | Whereas here , you 're still very busy , but er you have the membership just on your doorstep and you can get to meet them and know them a lot closer than you would when you 're having er a large volume of people filing through your doors in the city centre . |
| 14 | We know you a long time , right ? |
| 15 | ‘ I thank you , Mr Aycliffe , ’ Theda said drily , ‘ but I know him a little better than that ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I know it a bit . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I know it a damn sight better than you do ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ They 're a good twenty years younger , and they 've only known them a year or two . |
| 19 | But he wrote to Hanns ‘ Do n't worry about conditions here : although they can be grim , I 've known them a lot grimmer in S.A. ’ He declared that ‘ being new in London is a full time job ’ and described the town rhapsodically as |
| 20 | I 've only known you a few days , Luke , and I do n't go in for casual sex . ’ |
| 21 | And I 've known you a lot longer than has your so-called friend Rainbow here , thanks to whom you now find yourself in this lousy fix . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't forget who you 're talking to here — I 've known you a long time , remember ? |
| 23 | ‘ I 've known her a couple of years . |
| 24 | You 're just from the YTS. — You 've only known her a few weeks . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've known her a long while ? ’ |
| 26 | You 've known him a long time ? ’ |
| 27 | I 've only known him a few weeks , after all . ’ |
| 28 | She 'd only known him a few hours yet every cell of her body seemed sensitised to his presence . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've known him a long time , ’ Maggie said desperately , knowing quite well that she was being taunted and feeling just a little defenceless . |
| 30 | Yes , he says , he has known it a little worse , but not much . |