Example sentences of "knew [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Transition to the outside destroys the manufactured reality of one ‘ real world ’ and two ex-police probation officers I knew became the equivalent of potential ‘ prigs ’ .
2 The only way he knew to heal the pain of his humiliation was to punish her for the crime of leaving him .
3 As I gingerly stepped on to one last narrow slab , I met someone I knew walking the other way .
4 Everybody we knew used the Cooperative .
5 I knew to leave the door open , as I knew to clear a path to the kitchen door , while the chairs were still hand-stripped pine to me .
6 Oh well they they knew the road , these men knew knew the road very well , and er they knew the
7 Charlotte then employed every sign that she knew to tell the other fishermen that none of them should put to sea on that day , to no avail .
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