Example sentences of "[vb past] know [pron] [prep] [art] [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 | I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman . |
| 3 | I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War . |
| 4 | But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott . |
| 5 | His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time . |
| 6 | The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 9 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 10 | 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 . |