Example sentences of "those who knew [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This includes all those who knew her well : the Lady Prioress , the two Sub-prioresses , and our comely Dame Agatha . |
| 2 | Those who knew him best saw the melancholy that went hand-in-hand with the gaiety he showed the world , and because he lived every emotion intensely , his misery went deep . |
| 3 | Certain drafts of The Cocktail Party , for example , are marked with Mary Trevelyan 's handwritten alterations " as dictated by T. S. E. " From the late Forties she kept a diary of their friendship , and in this it is possible to see how bewildering Eliot could appear , even to those who knew him best . |
| 4 | More interestingly , those who knew him well speak of his outstanding security . |
| 5 | Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning . |
| 6 | Rendel was a shy man , but confident in his views and , to those who knew him well , a shrewd , witty , and charming companion . |
| 7 | Connon was a hard man to startle in any case , as those who knew him well could vouch . |
| 8 | Accounts of his sexual prowess have been dismissed by sceptics , but those who knew him better maintain that he was able to exercise extraordinary self-control when making love , so that sex several times a day with different women was perfectly feasible . |
| 9 | A MAN of many parts , Warren Tute was thought by those who knew him only slightly to be a good raconteur and a popular member of the Garrick . |
| 10 | Those who knew him only as a fellow undergraduate would have been still more surprised by his degree result had they known the extent of his other activities . |
| 11 | Grand though this sounds , it seems to be borne out by those who knew him about that time . |