Example sentences of "knew [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought you knew me well enough by now to know I 'm careful — very careful — about what I say , ’ Kuhlmann growled . |
| 2 | He knew me well . |
| 3 | Before the operation my speech had been getting more slurred , so that only people who knew me well could understand me . |
| 4 | She knew me well enough not to ask what I was up to in front of a policeman . |
| 5 | Fly knew me well . |
| 6 | Anyone in the city who knew me also knew that I could be found there , at some time every night , if I was on the planet . |
| 7 | She knew me even if her mind went wrong . |
| 8 | No one knew me now in South Shields . |
| 9 | Fortunately those of my friends who knew me before were only amused by this foolish description and there was no general resentment of my peerage , which could properly have been attributed to many services that I had given to the government — of both colours . |
| 10 | ‘ Mikhail … we are still comparative strangers , but I would have hoped you already knew me better than that . |
| 11 | And she 'd already been with me for several years before we met , so you felt that perhaps she knew me better than you did , and you hated that . ’ |
| 12 | I thought you at least knew me better than that . ’ |
| 13 | I thought you knew me better than that . ’ |
| 14 | He tried not to let his feelings show in his eyes ; but he sensed that the scribe knew them anyway . |
| 15 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 16 | Though a gust of icy wind made his eyes water , blurring the caller 's features , he knew them well enough . |
| 17 | Many viewers were ‘ structuring their lives round it ’ and spoke of the characters as if they knew them well ( BBC , 1986 ) . |
| 18 | Ben knew them well . |
| 19 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 20 | Some well I myself I was lucky I had a job with my brother in law , he was working there on the railway and he knew them well . |
| 21 | The town bailiffs passed slowly — she knew them well , Robert Thornes and John Scryveyn , both gentlemen of coat-armour . |
| 22 | It was common knowledge that one really had to live with people before one knew them properly . |
| 23 | ‘ Ipswich docks have changed since I first knew them over sixty years ago . |
| 24 | And of course you knew them socially too . |
| 25 | I became one of the enthusiastic mob ( mostly female ) who hung over the balcony rail at the end of performances of Swan Lake and Coppelia , yelling for Margot and Bobby ( Fonteyn and Helpmann ) , as if we knew them personally . |
| 26 | The realist strategy involved comparing the description of the person with the subject him/herself or someone the subject was familiar with ; ‘ I also related a lot of the adjectives to whether they were like me ’ , ‘ … and rated the person as if I knew them personally . |
| 27 | Yeah by a family who knew them personally not off . |
| 28 | That may be so , but when I first knew them there had been radical changes . |
| 29 | Pupils reached the point where they could say that they realized that someone — namely their teachers and their tutors — knew them very well . |
| 30 | perhaps , he thought as he followed Maisie down the front path , it was that he knew them only as fathers , as people whose primary function was to stand at the edge of swimming pools , dank gymnasia or football fields , their collective manhoods bruised by nurture , blurring with age and helpless love . |