Example sentences of "he got to know " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is perching on the railway , six stops down the line , with a stationmaster he got to know somehow when he was on the town in Petersburg — the Dostoevsky no-home at its most stripped and strange in this novel of aimless movement . |
| 2 | He got to know them well : years later when they appeared suddenly he could remember who they were . |
| 3 | When he got to know her a bit better , he was further excited by her strength of will , her independence , her commitment to the Irish nationalist cause , and — best of all , he reckoned — her utterly straight-faced enthusiasm for his explorations of the Celtic spirit-world . |
| 4 | But facing me in the nets for two winters , he got to know my bowling inside out and by the end of our stay in Cape Town he was hammering me all around the practice area . |
| 5 | Owing to the fact that most of his time was spent working on a vast selection of crashed and captured German aircraft , he got to know ( and love ) them quite well . |
| 6 | As he got to know Minton well , Tindle could not help admiring the older man 's flair for living and the way his response was never dense or dead . |
| 7 | Minton was also on friendly terms with the fourth ‘ Kitchen Sink ’ painter , John Bratby , whom he got to know whilst acting as his tutor . |
| 8 | Bratby was intrigued by Minton and soon after he got to know him painted a huge picture on paper , entitled ‘ Homage to John Minton ’ . |
| 9 | Bill O'Reilly has told me how he got to know Jardine in later tours of England as a cricketer and writer . |
| 10 | He got to know the players of bluegrass music with which he was familiar from his youth and listened to blues singers like Big Bill Broonzy . |
| 11 | You see erm even the erm and of course , your clubman I think coming round , he got to know er the people he 's we as well you know , they could save up for things . |
| 12 | Through his uncle , Dr Thomas Harland , he got to know Gustav Christian Schwabe , a partner in the Liverpool shipping company of John Bibby & Sons . |
| 13 | 1947–9 Lived in Paris , where he got to know , among others , Giacometti and the work of Dubuffet . |
| 14 | What had attracted Alan to Carolyn initially , and reinforced his interest as he got to know her , was her painful honesty . |
| 15 | But we 'd have brought him round when he got to know the club better . ’ |
| 16 | Close friend the director of the Lord Taverners Patrick Shervington has been in to see him too , he got to know Leslie Crowther through the entertainer 's extensive charity work . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose because he got to know what I had seen and how much I remembered . |