Example sentences of "to know [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Since then we 've had plenty of time to take stock , to get to know areas and compare different locations , ages and styles of house before making any decision . |
| 32 | Now , I 'd like to know Mick , does Jack talk to you , does he talk to your counterpart in the T & G ? |
| 33 | They just want to know help is there if they need it . |
| 34 | MUMS dreading the prospect of talking to their teenagers about adolescence will be relieved to know help is at hand in the form of the ‘ Tampax Teen Talk Line ’ . |
| 35 | I 'll need to get to know Nahum 's family . |
| 36 | Through his uncle , Dr Thomas Harland , he got to know Gustav Christian Schwabe , a partner in the Liverpool shipping company of John Bibby & Sons . |
| 37 | As an active member of the suffragette movement she got to know Dr Jessie Margaret Murray , who in 1913 opened the London Medico-Psychological Clinic , of which May Sinclair became a founding member . |
| 38 | It 's important to know parents ' expectations of the school , to know of their dreams and ambitions for their children . |
| 39 | She said : ‘ You got to know Benedict Joseph as well , did you ? ’ |
| 40 | An example of the latter point I made is shown on pg 45 where he tells of how he came to know Eddie . |
| 41 | As a handsome young man anxious to better himself in society , McCarty certainly got to know Cooper very quickly , and by the mid-Sixties was solidly ensconced in Cooper 's life . |
| 42 | You get to know sort of how to construct one . |
| 43 | Just because the guy can drop names we have all heard of and used to know Bruce McLaren does n't give him the right to bore us every week . |
| 44 | ‘ A chap I used to know years ago . ’ |
| 45 | had actually taken him on that he used to know years ago and had finished the |
| 46 | When asked on one occasion what he considered Truth to be , it would seem that Gandhi interpreted the question as a request for information as to how he came to know Truth . |
| 47 | There are few people who came to know Harold Macmillan who do not have some anecdote about him , and I am fortunate in that having interviewed him at length twice , as well as running into him on a number of other occasions , I have garnered quite a few . |
| 48 | That 's how I got to know Stephen . |
| 49 | The next step would be to get to know Fräulein Müller . |
| 50 | She had learnt to know Matthew a little better . |
| 51 | I particularly wanted to know Sir Alec 's views now that British Rail had submitted a scaled-down plan . |
| 52 | ‘ Exactly , but I 'm afraid it 's on a need to know basis . |
| 53 | The amount of information you received was strictly on a need to know basis . |
| 54 | ‘ Well , if not actually take her , Mary was always doing good works , that kind of thing , that 's how she got to know Mr Boston . |
| 55 | Getting to know Mr Rochester |
| 56 | thank you , well you know the three categories , now what about erm , er , I 'm very anxious to proceed today as far as we can , what about Mr er remind me erm reading with two and three er I 'm afraid I 've forgotten exactly what you , oh I know you wanted to know Mr , er before cross examine Mr you want to know about all the additions of the various brochures , is that right ? |
| 57 | He said he had got to know Mr Dobson through his girlfriend Angela Bell who kept a horse at the farm . |
| 58 | To an extent some such tension is inherent to the advocacy role : ‘ advocates ’ volunteer to get to know individuals using the service , set out the options for them and negotiate on their behalf with service providers . |
| 59 | ‘ The English did n't seem to know right what they were doing . |
| 60 | She knew , had always known from observing her excellent father in his parish , how to listen and console without colluding , to allow and never invite confidences , to know right from wrong and yet never to judge or reject . |