Example sentences of "[noun] he know to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chivalrous to a fault , the story of his taking only £100 of the £400 he knew to be aboard a stagecoach at Bagshot , on the condition that an attractive lady passenger would dance with him , is authentic . |
| 2 | Frick took off his sound protectors and walked across to the young man he knew to be the leader . |
| 3 | In the Life , he makes a number of references — to Johnson 's high regard for a man he knew to be in hiding in London on account of having borne arms in the ‘ 45 ; to the curious fact that Johnson wrote almost not at all during the year 1745 — though Boswell , a windblown reed at best where politics were concerned , attributes this to preparation for the great Dictionary , rather than to any politically-induced melancholia . |
| 4 | Because of a mild affection for a tart he now seemed unable even to make love to , he was going to confront a man he knew to be a murderer with copies of the photographs for which a man had been killed . |
| 5 | Ramsey went out of his years at school with a sense of contentment which in retrospect he knew to be a veneer . |