Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly the people I got to know during my fifteen months on the sports circuit for the Sunday Correspondent readily confirmed my own impression that McIlvanney is the best in the business . |
| 2 | When I came over here I got to know about Kyrle Hall [ a Birmingham amateur club ] and went along there with my pumps and shorts and that was my introduction to boxing really . |
| 3 | Well I got to know about them when I first got married , when I was in the back street , you know in the terraces . |
| 4 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 5 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 6 | I was serious about acting in those days , but the hungrier I got the more my resolution sagged , until a guy I 'd known at college talked me into a job with the Defense Department . ’ |
| 7 | He worked in Whitehall , that 's all I 'd known at the time . |
| 8 | if I 'd known about that that would of great ! |
| 9 | How much better life would have been if I 'd known about that or used it ? |
| 10 | Sometimes they come back from their haunts very cross , and say , " If only I 'd known about that , " or " Why did n't I think of that ? |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , I wish I 'd known about Elise and Rob . ’ |
| 12 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 13 | Rehearsals were due to begin for myself and my accompanist/narrator John Gould , a shy , quirky , gifted musician whom I 'd known for almost twenty years . |
| 14 | My problems were : I had a body in the bath right behind me , a girl I 'd known for less than twenty-four hours in a bed in the next room , I was staying in the house of somebody I 'd never met who was currently at a family wedding somewhere north of Karachi and somewhere down the yellow brick road I had to call the cops . |
| 15 | I wish I 'd known in advance . |
| 16 | ‘ If I 'd known in time , I would n't have . |
| 17 | Cut adrift from nearly everything I 'd known before seven , I turned inward and invented story games to play alone . |
| 18 | Without such pressure even my execution at the hands of the Khad was a possibility … your efforts and support greatly encouraged me and my family , for when I came to know of them I was indeed strengthened by them . ’ |
| 19 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 20 | He gave me a hard stare , which said all that I needed to know about my fate if he failed to beat me . |
| 21 | He 's the one who taught in Ohio me the important things I needed to know about being a man . ’ |
| 22 | There was silence for a moment , and the sounds of the hospital intruded again briefly , then Belinda blurted , ‘ What made you feel that I needed to know about it , Faye ? ’ |
| 23 | This later proved a very good idea because the finished panel drew in , in the same way as regular cable panels and I needed to know by how much . |
| 24 | After all I did know through my discussions with Pasha regarding the plausibility of King Lear 's plot that the Earl of Gloucester was really the Earl of Gloster . |
| 25 | ‘ I did know about it , of course . |
| 26 | Yes I did know about it . |
| 27 | Miss Rose admitted she did n't remember much of that day , except for Celia 's long labour — which I did know about , but it slipped my mind — so it 's possible she 's forgotten other deliveries during the day , when there were other midwives on duty . |
| 28 | Erm I did know at that particular time know what it was to have holes in my shoes , and a piece of cardboard put into it to protect your foot from the hole . |
| 29 | I said knew about it , erm , you must have known about it , erm , that standard edition of the complete psychological works of Freud , that 's its title , and you 're one of the editors , one of the editors , I said , there 's no evidence that you ever intended to include this book in it , even though , you know , I understand that it could n't be published as long as Woodrow Wilson 's family was still alive , but erm , you know , why was n't it published in the standard edition ? |
| 30 | Crosland was replaced as Environment Secretary by Peter Shore , a much less exuberant and extrovert character , but a solid , steady man whom I had known over the years and had first met when he was the Secretary of an ad hoc committee formed by the Labour Party — with a few outside ‘ experts ’ such as Dennis Lloyd and myself — to produce a rental policy . |