Example sentences of "i knew [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I knew something about the bird life of the islands , having read articles about the rare and endangered Seychelles kestrel and magpie robin , but it was a chance encounter in — of all places — the Falkland Islands , that inspired my partner in Island Holidays to seek out more information . |
| 5 | I knew nothing of the facts of life until I got to my preparatory school , when at the age of thirteen , all of the boys who were leaving were summoned to the headmaster 's study . |
| 6 | Much to my shame I knew nothing of the Cambrian Railways as most of my interest up to then had been in the Southern Railways and to a greater extent industrial railways , and so decided that much research was necessary , which along with the commencement of renovations will form part of our next episode : - ‘ A NEW STATION IN LIFE ’ . |
| 7 | I knew nothing about the profession when I started , absolutely nothing . |
| 8 | I knew nothing about the event . |
| 9 | I knew nothing about the Ober Gabelhornr 's history or the difficulty of the route , or even what it looked like . |
| 10 | I knew nothing about the realities of proper soldiering , and to counterbalance the tedium and boredom of my small-time life , I surrounded the idea of the French Foreign Legion with a cocoon of glamour that it did n't possess . |
| 11 | I told the Customs officers and now I 'm telling you — I knew nothing about the heroin . ’ |
| 12 | You wo n't accept that I knew nothing about the drugs , yet you want my word ? |
| 13 | You refuse to accept that I knew nothing about the drugs . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I knew him as a hard-working , modest , and honest politician , ’ he said . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | I knew him over a period of about two years before he died . |
| 18 | I knew him through the Civil Service Orchestra , you see . |
| 19 | No , I knew him from the school . |
| 20 | ‘ I knew him in the army , ’ he said simply . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | Do n't ask me how — but I knew it without a shadow of a doubt . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , not that I knew it at the time , of course , else I 'd never have gone . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I knew it for a bird at once . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I had been there and I knew it as a beautiful seaside resort , but that was n't why I was so delighted . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In a way I knew it in a way I had |
| 29 | It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s . |
| 30 | 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 ! |