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Example sentences of "knew who [pron] be [coord] " in BNC.

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1	No one else in the Shah 's entourage knew who he was or why he had come .
2	Nobody but Ockleton knew who he was or why he was in Oxford .
3	As Larry Speakes , the president 's press spokesman , put it , ‘ I always had the impression that … as ( Ollie ) flew across the country he could visualize a camera on him , and although nobody knew who he was and his mission was secret , the whole thing was being made into a movie . ’
4	He may have been called ‘ Bubbles ’ because of his corpulence , his high spirits and his weakness for champagne , but he knew who he was and considered the whole business of being in FI , and being taken seriously in it , as something of a lark .
5	He knew who he was and what he wanted to do way before most people .
6	He was a successful president not because he ‘ focused ’ — few men can have done so less — and not because he was the ‘ great communicator ’ , but because he knew who he was and what he believed in .
7	Also , he found that whenever he moved into one group or another , the warren rabbits evidently knew who he was and treated him as the leader of the newcomers .
8	The Russians obviously knew who he was and kept him under surveillance all the time .
9	He knew who he was and what he stood for , and he was not ashamed of it .
10	As she bathed him , soaping the fat little limbs with a slow , caressing movement almost hypnotic in nature , she told him how lost she felt , how she no longer knew who she was nor where she was and how all that mattered to her was him .
11	Like everyone else in the village , he knew who she was and where she came from .
12	But meeting the neighbours who knew who she was and that her mother-in-law had moved to another county rather than come face to face with her — that really frightened her .
13	There was no question about it — people knew who I was and if they did n't they asked and I told them .