Example sentences of "i know [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel I know her like a sister now — she 's younger than I am — but she never told me about the twins . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm disappointed by the stick he gets because I know him as a person . |
| 3 | I know we as a nation are not renowned for our ability to serve but the general level of indifference , apathy and downright rudeness I encountered made even me , a cynical bastard at the best of times , wince . |
| 4 | But I 've got a photograph of him , and I know he after the war was over he went back and married a nurse . |
| 5 | I know you for a pure creature . |
| 6 | ‘ And is n't it fortunate that I know you for a blind fool ? ’ |
| 7 | Moving her just a fraction away , his eyes once more holding hers captive , he added , ‘ So is n't it fortunate that I know you for the cheat you are ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I know it like the back of my hand . ’ |
| 9 | I knew her as a girl because my own parents being much occupied , my nurse used to take me to the north to her brother 's farm for holidays . |
| 10 | This was best summed up by Everett , the market gardener : ‘ She were never a gel , but I knew her as a young woman and she were old then . ’ |
| 11 | In fact I knew her for a tough-minded young woman with feminist leanings and rather more interest in student politics than would be helpful in her academic work . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew him as a hard-working , modest , and honest politician , ’ he said . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | I knew him over a period of about two years before he died . |
| 16 | I knew him through the Civil Service Orchestra , you see . |
| 17 | No , I knew him from the school . |
| 18 | ‘ I knew him in the army , ’ he said simply . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | Do n't ask me how — but I knew it without a shadow of a doubt . |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I knew it for a bird at once . ’ |
| 23 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 24 | I had been there and I knew it as a beautiful seaside resort , but that was n't why I was so delighted . |
| 25 | I knew it by the way their eyes glowed green and yellow in the dark and because they always hopped in my direction in spite of how much I hated them . |
| 26 | In a way I knew it in a way I had |
| 27 | It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s . |
| 28 | To expect a genius — yes , my daughter is a genius , I knew it from the first — to endure the humdrum ways of marriage , bear children , become a housewife — it does not bear thinking of ! |
| 29 | ‘ She 's a trouble-maker ; I knew it from the beginning , ’ she muttered . |