Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adv] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a boy , of course , I was not to know of such matters , such degradation , such humiliation and indignities . |
| 2 | I was well known as the chief editor of the Black Papers on Education ( 1969–77 ) , supposedly traditional and right wing in their views of education . |
| 3 | I knew the Mozarteum Orchestra because I had played with them as a pianist , and I was well known in Salzburg , so we had no difficulty in selling tickets . |
| 4 | ‘ She was well known in Aspull and it had been said she had a heart of gold . ’ |
| 5 | Carol Clark 's double life , she was also known as Kate or Charlotte , has complicated the police hunt for her killer . |
| 6 | She paid close attention to the teaching of her assistants , and was always solicitous about the welfare of her students , among whom she was affectionately known as ‘ The Raisin' . |
| 7 | Venturous , or the " Big V " as she was affectionately known by all who served on her , was the Department 's most successful post-war cutter for both sea-going ability and success in revenue control . |
| 8 | By the nature of her role she was not known by very many of the boys , but those who did come into contact with her had no trouble in recognising both a first-rate musician and a first-rate teacher . |
| 9 | It was Wilde who christened her the ‘ Sphinx ’ , the name by which she was thereafter known to her friends . |
| 10 | ABOVE Mozart 's sister Maria Anna Mozart ( 1751–1829 ) ; she was always known as ‘ Nannerl ’ . |
| 11 | Because of her husband 's matrimonial adventures and the fact that she was by no means the only Lady Selvedge she was usually known as Lady ( Muriel ) Selvedge . |
| 12 | They were thus known by the name of ‘ enabling schemes ’ . |
| 13 | They were well known at the Jade Cockatoo , for the seniors at Pinehurst were allowed to have tea in the town now and then . |
| 14 | They were well known in Shakespeare 's time , for in A Midsummer Night 's Dream , Titania remarks about a period of unseasonable weather : |
| 15 | The two partners , so different in character that they were respectively known by their employees as ‘ Oil ’ ( Bridge ) and ‘ Vinegar ’ , worked tirelessly to place the business at the forefront of their trade . |
| 16 | Because of their favourable prognosis , they were long known as pseudolymphomas , however , immunohistochemical methods have now shown that most of these tumours are monoclongla B cell proliferations . |
| 17 | They were certainly known during the European markets of the seventeenth century but came into disrepute in England with the collapse of the South Sea Bubble ( see Chapter 1 ) in 1720 . |
| 18 | Both of them were already known for silences . |
| 19 | is not generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in those securities but which would if it were generally known to them be likely to materially affect the price of those securities . |
| 20 | ‘ Unpublished price sensitive information ’ is information which relates to specific matters relating to or of concern ( directly or indirectly ) to that company , that is to say it is not of a general nature relating to or of concern to that company and is not generally known to those persons who are accustomed or would be likely to deal in those securities but which if it were generally known to them would be likely to affect the price of those securities . |
| 21 | The curious thing about Dr Dunstaple 's death was that although the harrowing circumstances which had attended it were well known throughout the camp , it was not generally considered that , by dying , the Doctor had lost his argument with McNab . |
| 22 | ‘ My son kept a diary … three weeks before he flew to Moscow he recorded that he met an Alan Millet … four days before he left he met again with Alan Millet … why now does this Alan Millet speak of our son as if he were not known to him ? |
| 23 | The Special Air Service Regiment — or S.A.S. , as it soon came to be called — was at this time an established part of the Army Air Corps , though it was little known to the public at large . |
| 24 | At that time it was officially known as the ‘ Poor Law Institution ’ , although the sick wards there had been distinguished as St. Peter 's Hospital for some years . |
| 25 | The race returned for on year in 1940 and was held over nine laps of a 100-mile circuit that took in Brescia-Cremona-Brescia and , while it was generally known as the Brescia Grand Prix , it still was accorded Mille Miglia status , unlike the 1939 event . |
| 26 | It was a Michaelmas Day or at least the old erm Quarter Day for paying rents and erm it was generally known in those days as muck spreading because erm it was usual time for erm , the farm workers to get ready for the winter ploughing . |
| 27 | At least it was n't known to , to very many people at that time . |
| 28 | It was n't known as a National Anthem , apparently until eighteen fifty-two . |
| 29 | Stoke area was chosen I suppose because my father worked on the railway and you either worked on the railway or if you lived over Stoke , it was well known for that . |
| 30 | It was well known amongst that elite of which he was a part that the Chairman detested news of crisis . |