Example sentences of "know [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You also get to know them on a personal basis too … |
| 2 | All who have kept wild animals as pets or got to know them in the wild have come to realize that they each have their own personality and manner of expression , within the constraints of that species ’ natural instincts . |
| 3 | ‘ Essentially they did n't know me from a hole in the ground when I first approached them and were willing to give me the benefit of the doubt . |
| 4 | I enrolled under my maiden name , because I wanted other students to know me as a person first , as opposed to a professor 's wife . |
| 5 | You want to get to know me at a rate |
| 6 | ‘ And did n't we all know you for a darling girl ? ’ he whispered in her ear as his fingers continued to blaze fire across her exposed nape . |
| 7 | But a woman teacher can know you from the inside ; you can not hide from her so easily , or divert her attention . |
| 8 | Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked . |
| 9 | But Mr Major said that if he tried to be a Tory tough the public would know him for a phoney . |
| 10 | Colin Webley ( 36 ) is another newcomer as far as playing is concerned , although many of you will know him as the chap who did sterling work in the tea hut last season . |
| 11 | And , I 've gone out , it was n't that was hacking my fence mind , erm , it was another boy , I did n't know him with a , and I went out and I , I and he said , I was n't . |
| 12 | Even within living memory the following saying was often quoted : ‘ If you find an honest miller you 'll know him by the tuft of hair growing in the palm of his hand . ’ |
| 13 | I do n't know him like the others . ’ |
| 14 | Marina had that fabulous Gauloise and gin thee-ay-tah voice : which is why Jay had got to know her in the first place . |
| 15 | I feel I know her like a sister now — she 's younger than I am — but she never told me about the twins . |
| 16 | He 's we do n't really get to know him as a person . |
| 17 | She had known William as a boy and as an adolescent ; she was beginning to know him as an adult and as a lover ; but between the two blocks of knowledge was a ten-year gap . |
| 18 | It was a nice face and , other things being equal , she would have responded to that first , she had been wanting to get to know him for a long time . |
| 19 | This is the same young man who bit the ear of the governor — and we can only meet and get to know him in the novel itself . |
| 20 | Should this be announced during my absence , as is not unlikely , I would you should know it as a marriage of convenience , no more . |
| 21 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 22 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
| 23 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 24 | Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth . |
| 25 | I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |
| 26 | Though I did n't know it at the time , Lebanon was suffering only the hors d'oeuvre of the devil 's dinner . |
| 27 | ‘ Well , I did n't know it at the time , but the telegraphist on the next set to mine-Lofty , he 's called — was on my wavelength too . |
| 28 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
| 29 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
| 30 | ‘ I did n't know it at the time . |