Example sentences of "to know [pers pn] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably if ‘ Damnation Derek ’ had bothered to talk to people and get to know them a bit before preaching at them , he would have discovered that they would want to ask him some questions about what he believed . |
| 2 | But you get to know lots of others to talk to and that and on trips to away matches then you get to know them a lot better . |
| 3 | Yes with with the membership being on the doorstep , we do get to know them a lot better . |
| 4 | I think events proved that she had come to know me a little better , and talked to me , and tried to find out what I was planning and what I was doing , and how David 's career was going , and co-operated with me to assist David , I think he would have had a much happier period ahead of him . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd have to know you a lot better before telling you such things . ’ |
| 6 | They use it to help prepare themselves for the interview — i.e. to get to know you a bit before you arrive and work out the questions they are going to ask you . |
| 7 | When he got to know her a bit better , he was further excited by her strength of will , her independence , her commitment to the Irish nationalist cause , and — best of all , he reckoned — her utterly straight-faced enthusiasm for his explorations of the Celtic spirit-world . |
| 8 | I only got to know her a little as a teenager when I visited her on my own in the single-end where she lived in a Parkhead tenement , sleeping , washing and cooking in one room . |
| 9 | Maybe she was simply a bargirl , a cashier , an all-purpose heft-dispenser … and maybe I had already got to know her a little too well . |
| 10 | Of course he had got to know him a good deal better at Ecalpemos … |
| 11 | ‘ And I 'd advise you to reserve judgement on him till you get to know him a little better ! ’ |
| 12 | And when when he gets to know us a bit better we got quite a welcome tonight . |