Example sentences of "[adv] know [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend . |
| 2 | It 's ridiculous — I 've only known him for a few weeks . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've only known him for a few months ! ’ |
| 4 | The silence — for the sound of birds and sea adds up to silence as beautifully as we ever know it in the noisy world of today — together with the sweetly moving air , and the scents of thyme and bell heather and sun-warmed bracken , all combined to distil something very potent . |
| 5 | With these qualities they well be fully prepared for the big trial , but they must also know themselves in the deepest sense — ‘ to be in touch ’ , as Scott frequently mentions , ‘ with that critical inner voice . ’ |
| 6 | He was handsome in an altogether splendid way and probably knew it by the haughty way he behaved . |
| 7 | And they did n't really know anything about the blooming bloke you know ! |
| 8 | As we now know something of the appalling story of his hounding by cultural officialdom , the raucous irony of the middle works and the bitter blackness of the last become entirely comprehensible . |
| 9 | I suppose that because she had n't really known me from an early age , she made a tremendous effort to get to know me later . |
| 10 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 11 | But the reader now knows something of the general setting of Libyan politics ; of the people involved and their problems , and it is possible to approach the topic of ideas and principles in the aftermath of the revolution . |
| 12 | Once the door was shut , they could have had a dance band going full blast and you 'd never know it in the next room . |