Example sentences of "she know [pers pn] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew me to be a rogue as soon as she clapped eyes on me and , whilst her father ushered me to a seat , she watched girlishly out of the corner of her eye . |
| 2 | Now when she saw him drinking , wild-eyed and aggressive , in her inner eye she kept the vision of the distinguished and striking man she knew him to be . |
| 3 | She knew him to be Alexander Rokovssky , the dark tool of autocratic monarchs and a fanatical servant of Tsarism , a man who could slit another 's throat or shoot him at point-blank range without any change of expression . |
| 4 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 5 | Even so , in her darkest moments , wrong as she knew it to be , Constance could not stop herself thinking , If only it had been Mummy . |
| 6 | And it is not that she knows me to be bad or weak , or you either , but her conventional mind could not grasp that a thing so often impure , can be made absolutely and perfectly pure . |
| 7 | Because she knows you to be a strong character . |