Example sentences of "who knew the [noun] " 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 | If there are fewer people around who knew the person who has died , then there are also fewer people to notice that the person is no longer there , and there are fewer people to talk about missing him or her . |
| 3 | Previously when someone 's age had to be formally determined it had to be done in the presence of a sheriff of the county and a ‘ jury ’ composed of local people who knew the person concerned . |
| 4 | H-M had enough field Ops to handle the sanction , but Manolo recognized his limitations , and had had Rodriguez and Terhune augment his forces with some local soldiers who knew the sand . |
| 5 | Murray decided that he himself would go after the usurper , as was suitable , the lawful Regent after the false king , with perhaps one thousand hard-riding Border mosstroopers who knew the country , whilst the rest of the Scots army went on down Annandale after the main enemy force . |
| 6 | ‘ Back in nineteen forty-four when Claudia was working on her thesis , I understood intellectually ’ — he says the word with a certain fastidiousness — ‘ what she was saying about the Masai , but as a man who knew the country and the natives , or thought I did , I could n't really accept it . |
| 7 | Robot , much to the dismay of those who knew the history of the type , was originally displayed as an X P–59 . |
| 8 | This is evidence that subjects who knew the route well performed no differently in the recognition task from those subjects who knew the route less well . |
| 9 | This is evidence that subjects who knew the route well performed no differently in the recognition task from those subjects who knew the route less well . |
| 10 | Only the canny Mr Genscher , who knew the East Germans ' minds , could have thought of letting the regime save face by ‘ expelling ’ their own people across their own territory . |
| 11 | My task was to assess the validity of the information taken over the phone and the only way I could do that was to contact someone who knew the Lawrence situation . |
| 12 | His men , who knew the law as well as he , looked at him expectantly . |
| 13 | Maureen had returned to the wool shop and told Anne that her customer who knew the O'Neills had said that Kathleen had been injured on her head and shoulder by shrapnel and been taken to hospital in Winwick several miles outside Liverpool . |
| 14 | Luke , who knew the play backwards , had been moved to tears by the moonlit love scene between Lorenzo and Jessica . |
| 15 | Visitors who knew the village in the past are surprised to find the place little changed . |
| 16 | These were the people , Anna thought affectionately , who knew the rules of village living , as of old . |
| 17 | ‘ If they have minds , ’ said Charles , who knew the rules of the game . |
| 18 | I leaned back against the high , wooden bench , assessing Ralemberg as a true businessman who knew the workings of the London market . |
| 19 | ( Someone , probably a junior malai officer who knew the jungle , had stolen his impermeable paper earlier . ) |
| 20 | M E Tralbaut recounts the story of Vincent 's actual departure from Belgium 's black country , as told to him by his old friend Louis Piérard , who knew the widow of the pastor of Warquignies well . |
| 21 | The other frequently cited example of creation during a dream is that of F. A. Kekule , a nineteenth-century chemist who knew the composition of benzene — hydrogen and carbon — and its molecular weight , which gave six atoms each of carbon and hydrogen in the molecule . |
| 22 | I met executives who knew the inside of a Concorde better than their own back yard , who had telephones stuck permanently to their ears . |
| 23 | The vacancy was filled first by the Rev. H. Cottam , Rector of St. Mary 's , Crumpsall , who knew the school well , having been one of the Annual Examiners and having stood in during a previous illness , of Hamilton 's in 1875 . |
| 24 | I 'd met Gordon Holmes , who knew the London managers and he was guiding me . |
| 25 | This was the man to whom all things were known ; this was the king who knew the countries of the world . |
| 26 | " This too was the work of Gilgamesh , the king , who knew the countries of the world . |
| 27 | She had frightened herself still further by asking those of her friends who knew the theatre gossips what the latest on dit was on Karl Gesner . |
| 28 | First , the Secretary of State told the Committee and the House that the new form of community care , which will be run by local authorities , would have the extraordinary advantage that people in the locality who knew the scene would make the decisions . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | about their big brother who knew The Beatles … personally |