StringNet search result

Example sentences of "know [pers pn] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ Essentially they did n't know me from a hole in the ground when I first approached them and were willing to give me the benefit of the doubt .
2	I enrolled under my maiden name , because I wanted other students to know me as a person first , as opposed to a professor 's wife .
3	You want to get to know me at a rate
4	But Mr Major said that if he tried to be a Tory tough the public would know him for a phoney .
5	I feel I know her like a sister now — she 's younger than I am — but she never told me about the twins .
6	He 's we do n't really get to know him as a person .
7	Should this be announced during my absence , as is not unlikely , I would you should know it as a marriage of convenience , no more .
8	I know we as a nation are not renowned for our ability to serve but the general level of indifference , apathy and downright rudeness I encountered made even me , a cynical bastard at the best of times , wince .
9	‘ I 'm disappointed by the stick he gets because I know him as a person .
10	He shall feel the ground give under him , if only once , he shall fall , and men shall see him fall , and know him for a man like other men .
11	We 've known them for a while , they 've been travelling to games solidly for years and are better fans on that score than I 've ever been .
12	I had known him for a number of years .
13	Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance .
14	Barbara was wonderful : unlike some people who had known him as a child , she treated him as an adult .
15	Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages .
16	I knew her as a girl because my own parents being much occupied , my nurse used to take me to the north to her brother 's farm for holidays .
17	He knew her as a girl when she first came to Rome .
18	His vestigial liberalism or compassion persuaded him to resist the introduction of the poll tax for nurses and other deserving persons — but the Whips knew him as a man who would always toe the lobby line with a specious ministerial assurance , such as Nicolas Ridley 's promised poll tax rebate of £130 millions .
19	The following sentences taken from van Ek ( 1966 : 104-5 ) illustrate this use : ( 97 ) I knew him as a man to be very much like myself .
20	It is indeed strange that Anselm never referred the question to Ivo , bishop of Chartres : he knew him as a friend , but not apparently as the greatest authority on Canon Law in northern Europe .
21	I was vividly aware of the far reaching and vast contribution that Basil had made to education , to values , to the good influences of the Authority on teachers and children , colleges , schools and students , and I am of the privileged few who were able to work with Basil in the early days of struggles , so I know how much , how very much he did — So I felt that at least he had fulfilled — as nearly as we can ever judge — so much of his life 's work even to the developments in his own personal creative medium — and this must be a comfort to you as well as to us who knew him as a friend and colleague .
22	I knew him over a period of about two years before he died .
23	‘ I knew it for a bird at once . ’
24	Ben knew it for a certainty .
25	He knew it for a certainty .
26	She knew it for a fact .
27	You knew it for a fact .
28	Harry Martin was behind all this , and , although she had n't a hope of proving it , she knew it for a fact .
29	And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’
30	It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power .