Example sentences of "knew [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | I should become bad , selfish , a curse to myself and to all who knew me . |
| 3 | Before term started I wanted to live anonymously in this city where no one knew me , just for a few days . |
| 4 | No one knew me now in South Shields . |
| 5 | I 've changed … somewhat since she knew me . |
| 6 | I went everywhere and no-one knew me at all . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought you knew me well enough by now to know I 'm careful — very careful — about what I say , ’ Kuhlmann growled . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | I did n't lack support ; the Spanish public knew me from the European Indoor . |
| 11 | I have quite a few contacts — people who knew me when I was designing for Carnega — and they have been very encouraging . |
| 12 | I was shaking with embarrassment that he could talk to me in this way at all , as if he knew me , as if he had the right to question me . |
| 13 | He had his little peccadilloes , the quaint and rather Machiavellian ways to gain his little ends , but he knew me and I knew him , and in essentials he made good . ’ |
| 14 | I never got to hear Arthur Calder-Marshall talking about Patrick Hamilton , but just a few days later I was able to read Patrick Hamilton about Arthur Calder-Marshall , in a letter to Hamilton 's brother in 1951 about a radio talk Calder-Marshall had given : ‘ Arthur C-M 's description of me as he first knew me ( at the Wells Hotel , Hampstead ) makes very amusing reading . |
| 15 | ‘ Mikhail … we are still comparative strangers , but I would have hoped you already knew me better than that . |
| 16 | He knew me well . |
| 17 | Now this was a lady who hardly knew me and had met Nigel only once , and briefly , at a party . |
| 18 | You knew me before I was born . |
| 19 | ‘ After she learned that you knew me and were coming down to see me ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Yer niver knew me dad , did yer ? ’ |
| 21 | Last year none of them really knew me . |
| 22 | I spent three enjoyable years at Salford between 1982–85 and I would be interested to hear from anyone who knew me , especially those on my course B.Sc ( Hons ) Economics . |
| 23 | " They knew me , " he said with pride . |
| 24 | I never accepted that title , and I believe those who knew me and spoke honestly of me never applied it to me . |
| 25 | and from the Exea , Exeter College where she first knew me , so |
| 26 | ‘ I saw her , in the midst of the warriors , and she saw me too , and knew me . |
| 27 | Because she [ the new maths teacher ] did n't know me , she did n't have any confidence in me … but because she did n't have any confidence in me , I did n't have any confidence in myself , and that is the thing that really makes me regret changing schools … at my first school all the teachers knew me and had confidence in me . |
| 28 | At least there was someone at the end of a line who knew me . |
| 29 | At this moment , Madam , who knew me , shrieked to me over the heads of the crowd : " You — there — please ! |
| 30 | Fortunately those of my friends who knew me before were only amused by this foolish description and there was no general resentment of my peerage , which could properly have been attributed to many services that I had given to the government — of both colours . |