Example sentences of "[vb past] know the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In this capacity he soon got to know the leaders of the deaf community and other missioners throughout the United Kingdom , and attended the International Congress of the Deaf and Dumb in Paris in 1889 . |
| 2 | I got to know the man behind the voices that people heard . |
| 3 | She got to know the music because her father , Mr Tom Taylor , conducted the male voice choir which formed the basis of the opera chorus . |
| 4 | Needless to say , before the actual commissioning I got to know the Brooke Marine Yard and staff very well , and made many friends there . |
| 5 | He got to know the players of bluegrass music with which he was familiar from his youth and listened to blues singers like Big Bill Broonzy . |
| 6 | And you got to know all these things , you got to know the peculiarities of what they liked best doing you see , and everything like that . |
| 7 | When I when I first got to know the flats , certainly after the the incident of a of an elderly lady being erm being mugged and beaten up by some some kids up there . |
| 8 | You got to know the people . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | This aspect of the much prized composite quality of ‘ experience ’ takes time and work : ‘ You got to know the district . |
| 12 | I got to know the blobs and wiggles in that rough circle that looked like a sample from an oil slick , until I could draw them blindfold , and I began to visualize them inside me . |
| 13 | We anxiously resigned ourselves to a long wait , and as the weeks passed we gradually got to know the handful of long-term foreign residents in the town , all of them eccentric survivors from days of former glory . |
| 14 | But we 'd have brought him round when he got to know the club better . ’ |
| 15 | In February and March it was hard going out almost nightly but he liked it and Joan got to know the wives and children of the clergy . |
| 16 | One source on the BBC 's Spanish set said : ‘ It was always envisaged harder stories would be introduced when people got to know the characters well enough . ’ |
| 17 | These places were all villages really , you got to know the neighbours , met people at parties and , given that you were a middle-class professional person , there was a limited number of like people it was possible to meet . |
| 18 | There would always be a possibility of escape once she got to know the routine . |
| 19 | Significantly , his successor was not a football player at all but a journalist who got to know the Arsenal chairman while working as a society correspondent for the New York Herald . |
| 20 | The children could not keep away from the railway , and they soon got to know the trains that passed by . |
| 21 | Oliver could hardly see where he was going , but the Dodger seemed to know the way , and helped Oliver up . |
| 22 | It was such a big place and nobody seemed to know the whereabouts of the junior physician she was asking for . |
| 23 | Estelle , her companion for the evening , seemed to know the drill , for she placed three glasses together on a low table and , taking the man 's limp penis between her thumb and fingers , pointed it towards the glasses . |
| 24 | In the seven years we lived there , only once did I ever meet another fisherman on my favourite part of the river ; and over the years I came to know the South Tyne and its wildlife as well as Mole or Rat in Wind and the Willows ever knew their water . |
| 25 | ‘ The Works ’ — as we came to know the railway shops — provided most of the employment for the local inhabitants . |
| 26 | I came to know the mother 's breasts well . |
| 27 | There he came to know the painters , Mark Gertler , D. G. Bomberg , W. P. Roberts , C. R. W. Nevinson , and ( Sir ) Stanley Spencer [ qq.v. ] , but increasingly found art and poetry incompatible and he himself was drawn towards poems , ten of which were privately printed as a pamphlet , Night and Day , in 1912 . |
| 28 | The chancery was immensely important to an active pope for it was mainly through its products that people came to know the pope 's thoughts and will . |
| 29 | That summer I came to know the Toacks |
| 30 | I wish I 'd had fewer children — if I 'd known the way prices would go up … |