Example sentences of "he [vb past] know " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Through his uncle , Dr Thomas Harland , he got to know Gustav Christian Schwabe , a partner in the Liverpool shipping company of John Bibby & Sons . |
| 33 | 1947–9 Lived in Paris , where he got to know , among others , Giacometti and the work of Dubuffet . |
| 34 | What had attracted Alan to Carolyn initially , and reinforced his interest as he got to know her , was her painful honesty . |
| 35 | But we 'd have brought him round when he got to know the club better . ’ |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | ‘ I suppose because he got to know what I had seen and how much I remembered . |
| 38 | He pretended to know nothing about what happened between us . ’ |
| 39 | Surkov asked how he 'd known she was in London . |
| 40 | Was this the Milton Humberside he 'd known so long ? |
| 41 | For days he 'd been in the blackest of moods , furious with her for wasting herself on a man old enough to be her father , and even more furious with himself for not having taken her forcefully after that Christmas evening when he 'd known her feelings were as inflamed as his own . |
| 42 | He 'd known Creed would find out . |
| 43 | He 'd known he was going to be tested , and he 'd prepared himself . |
| 44 | Sooner or later he 'd known that he would tell the truth . |
| 45 | Dad started off in statesman-like fashion , as if he were addressing the United Nations , earnestly saying he 'd come to love Eva over the time he 'd known her and so on . |
| 46 | Maybe I 'd set him at ease by saying ‘ g'day ’ , but he looked like he 'd known me all his eight years , and leant quite steadily on me for the drive to Robert 's parents ' cottage , where we arranged photos . |
| 47 | He 'd known that since that first bewildering day . |
| 48 | But he 'd known , had n't he , that this trip was his last . |
| 49 | He 'd known her eight months — met her , in fact , at a dinner party hosted by Vanessa 's elder brother William — and they had only argued once , but it had been a telling exchange . |
| 50 | He 'd answered with some folderol about seeking the ideal woman , but he 'd known the truth even as he was spinning her this tosh , and it was a bitter thing . |
| 51 | She was certainly a bewitching woman , but then he 'd known others every bit as bewitching , and not been panicked by them . |
| 52 | He 'd known Taylor had the plague , but had n't realized people were counting the days to his demise . |
| 53 | The man had known his death was imminent , which suggested that he 'd known his murderer too . |
| 54 | He 'd known Adam , had n't he ? |
| 55 | Perhaps he 'd known before , as soon as the phone rang . |
| 56 | Before his eyes , the person he 'd known did a slow dissolve into the person she 'd become : the face sharper and sterner , the hair short and severe , the body lean as a toothpick on salads and work-outs . |
| 57 | He says now that if he 'd known what it would involve he would have taken the first plane out of town , but I was hugely relieved when he agreed . |
| 58 | But he 'd known that while I might accept his desire to get out of the situation I could not accept his withdrawing support from me , just shutting me out , without letting me come to terms with his thinking . |
| 59 | I wonder what my father would have said if he 'd known his illegitimate son might yet marry one of the Kinmuires . ’ |
| 60 | She was good fun to be with and easy to talk to , and in the short time he 'd known her she had shown a ready sense of humour . |