Example sentences of "knew them [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |
| 2 | You think you know people and then you wonder if you ever knew them at all . ’ |
| 3 | They were confined for the most part to the close proximity of the waterways and some parts of the country hardly knew them at all . |
| 4 | But Mum knew them for crafty rogues and she had n't forgotten the coal . |
| 5 | Whatever it was , the moment I saw the Parsons I knew them for British as surely as though they 'd had the word stamped on their hides like bacon . |
| 6 | And I 'll say this now , they was in business there , nextdoor , and I knew them like that , they says any machinery come here and use it , and they 'd got shears and all that sort of thing , and with their help , you know , I had these four locks and did them and took them down in no time to m to er , to and they was flabbergasted because of the quickness of them , you know , and they says er we can always find you sommat to work if er this is the case . |
| 7 | When I first knew them in those early London days , I 'd often find the Second Son picking out some phrase on the piano in our living room . |