Example sentences of "knew [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went everywhere and no-one knew me at all . |
| 2 | I found a felt-tip pen in the desk drawer and addressed the envelope to ‘ Mr F. MacLean ’ care of a pub I knew in Southwark where they knew me by that name . |
| 3 | All stories were to be based on scientific and historical facts as we knew them at that time . |
| 4 | You think you know people and then you wonder if you ever knew them at all . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 . |
| 8 | Those who knew her during this period described her as full of life and fun and an exceptional administrator . |
| 9 | But even then , before I knew her at all , I sensed that normality was not really Karen 's thing . |
| 10 | ‘ I hardly knew her at all , ’ said Guy , unconcernedly , ‘ only she happened to mention it once . ’ |
| 11 | He scarcely knew her after all . |
| 12 | richly into , for I knew him by these things . |
| 13 | Peter Yeo , who knew him in this over-candid , over-emphatic mood , decided to prod gently . |
| 14 | Everyone who knew him in those schooldays — men and women alike — speak with affection of him : stories tumble out like clothes spilling out of a split suitcase — Richard peeing out of the train window as the engine roared by the station platform , Richard taking a girl up on to a mountain and scaring her to flight at his howl as a passionate hand landed on one of his more angry boils , Rich , reeking of beer , rolling into school and being sent home . |
| 15 | She knew it in all its moods , the formless expanse of a dark winter morning , the bright sparkle of summer , when the water , however dirty it might be really , seemed to have the freshness of faraway springs . |
| 16 | ‘ And I knew it from that first day when you came driving down to the chais like a crazy woman . |