Example sentences of "[verb] know they [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We saw so many of these bomber boys pass before us — we got to know them slightly and then they were gone . |
| 2 | ‘ Those people just had something special and we got to know them well , ’ Andrew said . |
| 3 | He got to know them well : years later when they appeared suddenly he could remember who they were . |
| 4 | I played everywhere , and because we , in the Music School , were taught by tutors in men 's colleges I got to know them well , and went in and out in defiance of the chaperone rules — which were then still in force … |
| 5 | Mrs Ford said primly , ‘ I never got to know them well in their child-bearing years . ’ |
| 6 | And er but er we got to know them eventually , but for the first few weeks , whilst we were in Devon , I think the five foreigners sort of got landed . |
| 7 | When I was a child we had two bay-coloured horses , and I later got to know them very well . |
| 8 | this turned out to be the standard stuff of innumerable intelligence reports , as Carrington got to know them better . |
| 9 | We so enjoyed having friends to stay and got to know them so much better than in London . |
| 10 | Well now , although it was not much more of a job really than an errand boy 's , but as I did that for five and a half years I got to know the people at the pawnbrokers , the cycle agents I got to know them so well , I knew the staff , I got to know the people who were pawning clues and that regularly , I was getting more information every year . |
| 11 | In so far as literature would inevitably play a substantial part in any such course , the students reading it would learn the appropriate cultural codes rather than being expected to know them already . |
| 12 | Do not invite anyone into your home until you have come to know them quite well . |
| 13 | Sometimes an older child made a deliberate choice to do so , having already got to know them well , but others could find themselves suddenly in a new home with no say at all . |
| 14 | He saw the Challenge materials as particularly useful for the individual resource-based projects which first-year children were encouraged to develop over several weeks in the summer term : Up to half term they really are very much guided as to the work they do , but as we get to know them better , and as teachers become more confident about letting them maybe work on longer pieces … and go out and get resources themselves , they can go towards more pupil-centred learning . |
| 15 | We get to know them better . |
| 16 | I mean when you 're working for a week at a time with the same blokes week in week out I mean you get to know them really well . |
| 17 | It is difficult to come to terms with the fact that I mean it 's people that you 've worked with for a week , at a time and I mean for three and a half years every second week you 're working with that guys in a confined space , you get to know them really well . |
| 18 | We find winter is the time when most people come and have a chat to us ; we 've got a regular following of visitors and you get to know them quite well . |
| 19 | And you work all of those out so that you just play with them just get to know them so that you 're happy with them . |
| 20 | In the su around about this area , the the local housing estates , a great many of our investing members just live practically round the corner , so we get to know them very well . |
| 21 | Now Gwendolen 's met her new grandparents , she 's looking forward to getting to know them better . |
| 22 | This view was confirmed by a single 27-year-old artist in a discussion group : ‘ You 'd have to know them fairly well to be able to maintain an image of them in your head . |
| 23 | Seeing as we 've had those words for about a week I should think we do know them then . |
| 24 | Now one of her priorities is to get to know them again . |
| 25 | In another sense they may seem to know them too little , to be too little able to see them in relation to other , contemporary , young people : as much chance of a fair assessment from a family as from a school . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've known them out a week . |
| 27 | I had known them now for some time and smiled at the thought of their good company . |
| 28 | She was as much a part of this murky landscape now as if she had been born here , every step of the way between Miss Gemma Dallam 's cloistered corner and her own — in spirit a universe apart — being so familiar to her that it seemed she had always known them , or had known them before , in another place , a dozen other places ; another life . |