Example sentences of "[pron] come to know the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the seven years we lived there , only once did I ever meet another fisherman on my favourite part of the river ; and over the years I came to know the South Tyne and its wildlife as well as Mole or Rat in Wind and the Willows ever knew their water . |
| 2 | That summer I came to know the Toacks |
| 3 | I came to know the mother 's breasts well . |
| 4 | ‘ The Works ’ — as we came to know the railway shops — provided most of the employment for the local inhabitants . |
| 5 | The Good Book has taught us their image , they must be outcasts with the mark of Cain upon them , Ishmaels for whom the savage wilderness is home till they come to know the wisdom of the Lord . |
| 6 | There he came to know the painters , Mark Gertler , D. G. Bomberg , W. P. Roberts , C. R. W. Nevinson , and ( Sir ) Stanley Spencer [ qq.v. ] , but increasingly found art and poetry incompatible and he himself was drawn towards poems , ten of which were privately printed as a pamphlet , Night and Day , in 1912 . |