Example sentences of "[pers pn] know he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm disappointed by the stick he gets because I know him as a person . |
| 2 | ‘ I know him to be a child with a warm heart , ’ said Rose . |
| 3 | Even if I never know Friend again , I know him inside me . |
| 4 | I do n't know then , I ca n't think where I know him from , . |
| 5 | But I 've got a photograph of him , and I know he after the war was over he went back and married a nurse . |
| 6 | The following sentences taken from van Ek ( 1966 : 104-5 ) illustrate this use : ( 97 ) I knew him as a man to be very much like myself . |
| 7 | ‘ I knew him as a hard-working , modest , and honest politician , ’ he said . |
| 8 | I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves |
| 9 | Now I knew him for what he was as a right softly softly . |
| 10 | I was pleased when he asked me to do the test-flying programme for him and I had no qualms in agreeing , as I knew him to be a meticulous engineer . |
| 11 | I knew him over a period of about two years before he died . |
| 12 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 13 | I knew him through the Civil Service Orchestra , you see . |
| 14 | richly into , for I knew him by these things . |
| 15 | Rik Mayall 's name was all it took to persuade Ate de Jong to direct the film : ‘ I knew him from his work in THE YOUNG ONES . |
| 16 | No , I knew him from the school . |
| 17 | ‘ I knew him in the army , ’ he said simply . |
| 18 | He travelled as a seaman to Sydney where he won the Australian heavyweight title before transferring to San Francisco where he was persuaded by the Earl of Lonsdale to operate in England , a move which enhanced his status greatly , as a contemporary noted : ‘ I knew him in the days of his greatness when sitting on top of the pugilistic world , fêted and lionized , he might well have been excused some slight vanity ’ ( quoted by Henderson , 1949 , pp.20–1 ) . |
| 19 | He was born in France , but I knew him in Persia . |
| 20 | Yeah I know he was alr I , I only knew hi I knew him in Nigeria . |
| 21 | ‘ Did you know him before this ? ’ |
| 22 | Is that the only name you know him by ? ’ |
| 23 | Perhaps you know him by his shoes ? |
| 24 | How long have you known him for ? |
| 25 | Now when she saw him drinking , wild-eyed and aggressive , in her inner eye she kept the vision of the distinguished and striking man she knew him to be . |
| 26 | She knew him to be Alexander Rokovssky , the dark tool of autocratic monarchs and a fanatical servant of Tsarism , a man who could slit another 's throat or shoot him at point-blank range without any change of expression . |
| 27 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 28 | If you knew him to be a criminal , you suspected him of being up to no good . |
| 29 | ‘ You knew him round the halls , did n't you ? ’ |
| 30 | We knew him to be cowardly and because of that prone to bullying . |