Example sentences of "[verb] know [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Esther , now , suddenly tired of the Italian economy , dismissed it and Charles ( 'You do n't seem to realize , Charles , that I live below the reach of the economy , as an economic unit I simply do n't exist' ) , and peremptorily turned on Liz , demanding to know details of the guest list . |
| 2 | Hearn said : ‘ The handlers of Toney and Nunn , Bob Arum and Don King , do n't want to know Chris because he is very awkward and could make their men look bad . |
| 3 | And , of course , Oi has been invented to cater for this disillusioned neo-skinhead market : — ‘ Oi started after Sham 69 got famous ’ , said Roy , guitarist with The Last Resort , ‘ All of a sudden , they did n't want to know skins . |
| 4 | Why is it that we should want to know things that are , in the broad scheme , totally irrelevant ? |
| 5 | Unless one presumed to know God 's purposes , how could one know that He might not achieve them by varying the quantity of motion ? |
| 6 | Often these feelings and beliefs lead people to claim to know God and to glimpse the transcendent ; sometimes they represent that striving and longing for perfection which characterizes human beings but always they are concerned with matters at the heart and root of existence . |
| 7 | " Often these feelings and beliefs lead people to claim to know God . " |
| 8 | ‘ Mr James only got to know Anna well in Italy . |
| 9 | She said : ‘ You got to know Benedict Joseph as well , did you ? ’ |
| 10 | Bill O'Reilly has told me how he got to know Jardine in later tours of England as a cricketer and writer . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He first got to know Minton through his parents while studying painting at Chelsea Polytechnic . |
| 13 | I got to know women from other houses . |
| 14 | Through his uncle , Dr Thomas Harland , he got to know Gustav Christian Schwabe , a partner in the Liverpool shipping company of John Bibby & Sons . |
| 15 | Then he caught glimpses of the freer way of life of his father 's bachelor brother and , as he explored and fished along the canal , got to know Dad Uzzell who remained a surrogate father-figure for the rest of Edward 's life . |
| 16 | ‘ Other students did n't treat me as a mature student and I got to know students aged 17 to 70 . |
| 17 | Roth got to know Bellow in Chicago , where Roth worked as a university teacher , finding it a lively place . |
| 18 | Ian Stewart got to know Paul Gascoigne well when he teamed up with the troubled Lazio and England star at Newcastle . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was one of Brian 's three daughters , Karen , who got to know Kirsty . |
| 21 | I got to know Rosemary before Basil ; she was my Art Adviser in my earliest days of teaching and how fortunate I was to have such encouragement , support and stimulation . |
| 22 | Now this fellow had a very attractive girlfriend called Midge " md I got to know Midge through my predescessor , about the time I was due to leave No 7 Squadron and go to Bennett 's headquarters . |
| 23 | As I got to know Russell I began to be angry at this woman who was still causing him misery . |
| 24 | Through It she got to know Dave Hall and his wife . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | You got to know people very quick in . |
| 27 | That was how I got to know Nikolai Nikolaevich Khardzhiev . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . |
| 29 | Voight first got to know Dustin well when he was playing Rudolpho in A View from the Bridge in January 1965 , on which Dustin had been assistant director . |
| 30 | That 's how I got to know Stephen . |