Example sentences of "[pers pn] knew [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Julia , this is Peter Suvarov , whom I knew during the war . ’ |
| 2 | The first I knew about the plan to publish it in the newspapers tomorrow was a fax at midday today . ’ |
| 3 | I knew about the bad weather , and I had learned later that , on account of this , the plane had been recalled without accomplishing its mission . |
| 4 | Yes , I knew about the takeover — I could hardly avoid it — but that was Ursula 's headache , not mine . |
| 5 | What I knew about the Legion was based on a series of rumours and pieces of misinformation passed down from recruit to recruit . |
| 6 | I acquired the skills to do this before I knew about the world , purely because of God 's will . |
| 7 | she assumed that I knew about the abilities and feelings of humans and cats , about houses , territory , and the socially stereotyped roles of women and men . |
| 8 | ‘ Once I knew about the other woman , I realised we 'd been drifting apart and that , at weekends , I 'd felt quite distant . |
| 9 | ‘ … while I was in your gallery and had just told you I knew about the Durances . ’ |
| 10 | So , and she knew about the office , and I knew about the office and knew everything they were wanting me to know but a man got it from outside so |
| 11 | I knew about the air-vent before we came . |
| 12 | I knew about the famous Sherlock Holmes . |
| 13 | ‘ I also swear , ’ Prince Edward declared , ‘ that if I knew about the Lady 's … death |
| 14 | ‘ I knew about the affair before he did , ’ Faye went on over Belinda 's murmured comment . |
| 15 | ‘ I knew about the pit , of course , since Betty Yaxlee came a cropper in it Friday morning . |
| 16 | Even I knew about the CS , which had been set up the year before in the wake of a couple of real humdinger scandals in the Square Mile . |
| 17 | I know now , although I think I knew at the time , why one was so cared for by the ordinary people of Bury in 1941 . |
| 18 | ‘ But I knew at the time that I felt I had something to offer and that 's why I wanted to come back and be a manager again . |
| 19 | ‘ I knew at the time it would probably come to nothing , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Was that woman maybe Gaynor , whom I knew with the act of love ? |
| 21 | I knew on the one hand that he was playing some kind of trick on me ; a trick like the one with the loaded dice . |
| 22 | But I do n't think there were any anyone that I knew on the railway were not against nationalization . |
| 23 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 24 | The ward had been full , the nurses worked off their feet , but their care for me — and as far as I knew for the others — had been magnificent . |
| 25 | I mean if I knew for the fact that I was gon na get this job at the hospital I 'd pay for it |
| 26 | Paley begins Natural Theology with a famous passage : In crossing a heath , suppose I pitched my foot against a stone , and were asked how the stone came to be there ; I might possibly answer , that , for anything I knew to the contrary , it had lain there for ever : nor would it perhaps be very easy to show the absurdity of this answer . |
| 27 | I knew of the need for fibre , fresh fruits and vegetables — even if I did n't much like them — and I knew of the dangers of saturated fats and too much salt . |
| 28 | I knew of the need for fibre , fresh fruits and vegetables — even if I did n't much like them — and I knew of the dangers of saturated fats and too much salt . |
| 29 | I knew of the Knowlton Circles in Dorset but I had never seen them , although I had seen an air photograph . |
| 30 | I I knew of the existence of this of this report went to the enquiry on this Tuesday by mistake , but I two |