Example sentences of "knew [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Captain 'd been at Combe Court for ages and ages I think , cos he knew everyone , even the very poorly ones like Glenda . |
| 2 | She knew everyone watched her carefully , not knowing how to interpret her steady dutifulness , not crediting that it would last . |
| 3 | Salah said it was much easier to persuade people in a small community : Huaiwiri had only twenty-seven households and girls could continue schooling after puberty because everyone knew everyone else , because in any case no house was closed to any other , and everyone knew that the girls would come to no harm . |
| 4 | He knew everyone worth knowing and liked nothing better than to make connections . |
| 5 | He was one of the community , he knew everyone , their backgrounds and where their sympathies lay . |
| 6 | You knew everyone who went to work in the early morning — the chappie who came round on his bike and rod to put out the gas lamps or to light them . |
| 7 | No one was allowed to pass without a contribution : he knew everyone and covered the clubs , the pubs , the chip shops , the football ground . |
| 8 | She knew everyone and was always in the know , always had some news . |
| 9 | In other words , the place was a place where everyone knew everyone else 's business . |
| 10 | He knew everyone who mattered , and it was luck as much as anything else — what if reggae or jazz-funk had been the dominant force then ? — but Parsons was still capable of grabbing the opportunity when it knocked . |
| 11 | He knew everyone , and their business , and he made it his . |
| 12 | Everyone knew everyone and stopped to speak to everyone . |
| 13 | When the village was almost entirely an agricultural community then a case can be made , as we shall see , that the close-knit and overlapping social ties produced a situation in which everyone more or less knew everyone else , but we should be wary of sanctifying the agricultural village with a misplaced nostalgia . |
| 14 | Quite what their role in British theatre was , was hard to define , but they knew everyone , everyone knew them and managements even came to regard their presence on a first night as an essential good luck charm . |
| 15 | Station staff knew everyone worth knowing in the suburb apart from the few tradesmen who made no use of the railway for carriage of goods . |
| 16 | But Greg knew he would answer his questions about anyone local , for he knew everyone , and dearly loved to display his knowledge . |
| 17 | He knew no-one had seen him at Barak 's house otherwise he 'd have been charged straight away . |
| 18 | Her men had not been called upon to go ; she knew no-one who was in the army , or who flew the Tornado jets . |
| 19 | When I moves to this area just over two years ago I knew no-one , my two older children were at school and , although I enjoyed being at home with my two-year-old toddler , I felt that I was getting past the stage of discussing sleepless nights and dirty nappies ! |
| 20 | When we reached Auckland we had no plan of action at all , and as we knew no-one there was no-one to meet us . |
| 21 | We thought we knew no-one in this part of the country , but I had a hazy recollection that our English Department secretary at Vic. , Pat Lawn , had retired with husband Ken to this area . |
| 22 | At the age of 22 he wrote to his father from Paris : ‘ What annoys me most is that these idiots in France still think I am seven years old , because that is when they first knew me . ’ |
| 23 | I should become bad , selfish , a curse to myself and to all who knew me . |
| 24 | Before term started I wanted to live anonymously in this city where no one knew me , just for a few days . |
| 25 | No one knew me now in South Shields . |
| 26 | I 've changed … somewhat since she knew me . |
| 27 | I went everywhere and no-one knew me at all . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought you knew me well enough by now to know I 'm careful — very careful — about what I say , ’ Kuhlmann growled . |
| 29 | If someone said , ‘ just taking £5 off you , ’ and said they ‘ knew me son ’ and all that rigmarole and ‘ so I gave them £5 ’ , then your knowledge of the law came out immediately . |
| 30 | As one person put it , ‘ The only ones who knew me from the time I was born have gone , and it 's almost as if that period in my life is less real now that there is no one left alive who shared it with me . ’ |