Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] know [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was sacked because I was known to the local RUC as an ex-republican prisoner , ’ he said from Portlaoise Prison . |
| 2 | One agent I met with admitted that I was known in the business as a ‘ bit of a cheap turn ’ . |
| 3 | She says other prisoners used to chant ’ Baroness , ’ but eventually they accepted her and she was know as the Duchess . |
| 4 | In Albania she was known as the queen of the mountaineers , and streets there have remained named after her through all changes of regime . |
| 5 | Carol 's dancing and her sister Suzette 's acting provided the inspiration for the Minogue sisters — Danielle or Dannii as she was known in the clan was also showing signs of talent — and the pair loved nothing better than play acting at home . |
| 6 | I trained under Nurse Gatenby and at the time we were known as the Gatenby girls . |
| 7 | Working womens ' organisations you get co-opted on and the , we were known for the way , the business-like way we run our meeting you know . |
| 8 | They were known as the Reformers , and later as the Puritans . |
| 9 | Probably no better than they should be , thieving and robbing at will , they were known as the ‘ Children of the Mist ’ ; Rannoch can be a misty place and the Macgregors would appear , take your goods and chattels , and anything else not nailed down , then disappear again , into the mists of Rannoch Moor where they could never be found . |
| 10 | They were known as the Garonnais de plaine and the Garonnais de côteau , respectively , until 1922 when the Quercy , which had Limousin blood at the turn of the century , became separate . |
| 11 | They were known as The Fancy — that is those who fancied that particular activity . |
| 12 | They were known as the Winant Volunteers , after John Winant , the US Ambassador to Britain during the Second World War . |
| 13 | They were known as the Cedar Boys and it became clear that nearly all of them had been orphaned as the Third Reich took its terrible toll on European Jewry . |
| 14 | They were once so poverty-stricken they were known through the valley of the Tees as people who ‘ christened calves , hoppled lops and knee-banded spiders ’ That meant they could afford so few cattle that each one had a name ( a tradition perpetuated by Hannah. ) , and lops ( lice ) and spiders had their legs tied together to prevent them running away |
| 15 | Cases were counted if they were known to the indicator agencies in the one-year period from 1 July 1984 to 30 June 1985 . |
| 16 | They were known to the Romans , but no one afterwards used them until the Dover Road was given mile-marks in 1663 . |
| 17 | Most employers spoken to made clear that , were permanent vacancies to arise , temporary workers would be in the best position to compete for them since they were known to the organisation . |
| 18 | Leeds City , or the Peacocks as they were known from the gold V-shaped band on their blue strip , climbed to a more secure position in mid-table in the months after Chapman took over . |
| 19 | How they were used is not generally agreed upon , for , whilst the obverse of some of these cards — ‘ shopkeepers ' bills ’ as they were known by the eighteenth-century tradesmen — were sometimes utilized as an invoice to the purchaser , the majority surviving in public and private collections were not . |
| 20 | They were known amongst the respectable classes as the Ranters . |
| 21 | It was known at the time that there was going to be opposition to them and it was an absolute recipe for debate after debate , council meeting after council meeting , committee meeting after committee meeting . |
| 22 | Sentences could require in excess of 9 hours for a result ( or crash ) during which time it was known for the system to refuse logins to other users due to insufficient swap space . |
| 23 | In the barn alongside , sheep were salved and it was known as the ‘ salving barn ’ . |
| 24 | It was known as the ‘ butter mountain ’ . |
| 25 | In fact , it was known as the ‘ Premier Line ’ , with an authorised capital of £124m it claimed to be ‘ the biggest joint stock corporation in the world ’ . |
| 26 | In the Tennant family it was known as the ‘ Auld Nick ’ or ‘ Clootie ’ horn , the former being another name for the devil , and the latter being a familiar Scottish name for a cow or bullock . |
| 27 | The smallest breed is one that has only recently arrived from Singapore , where it was known as the ‘ drain cat ’ . |
| 28 | In those days , it was known as the Girl Horse Rangers , later changing to Horse Rangers of the Commonwealth before finally becoming the Horse Rangers Association in 1972 . |
| 29 | It was known as the Day of the Dead . |
| 30 | The actor was brought up in Croydon not far from the family 's home and remembers how it was known as The Arsenic House and how local children were afraid of it . |