Example sentences of "[vb past] know [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless one presumed to know God 's purposes , how could one know that He might not achieve them by varying the quantity of motion ? |
| 2 | ‘ Mr James only got to know Anna well in Italy . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ You got to know Benedict Joseph as well , did you ? ’ |
| 4 | Bill O'Reilly has told me how he got to know Jardine in later tours of England as a cricketer and writer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He first got to know Minton through his parents while studying painting at Chelsea Polytechnic . |
| 7 | I got to know women from other houses . |
| 8 | Through his uncle , Dr Thomas Harland , he got to know Gustav Christian Schwabe , a partner in the Liverpool shipping company of John Bibby & Sons . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Other students did n't treat me as a mature student and I got to know students aged 17 to 70 . |
| 11 | Roth got to know Bellow in Chicago , where Roth worked as a university teacher , finding it a lively place . |
| 12 | Ian Stewart got to know Paul Gascoigne well when he teamed up with the troubled Lazio and England star at Newcastle . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It was one of Brian 's three daughters , Karen , who got to know Kirsty . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As I got to know Russell I began to be angry at this woman who was still causing him misery . |
| 18 | Through It she got to know Dave Hall and his wife . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | You got to know people very quick in . |
| 21 | That was how I got to know Nikolai Nikolaevich Khardzhiev . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | That 's how I got to know Stephen . |
| 25 | ‘ I did a lot of research into what the characters were like , I was n't so much interested in the facts of the case of the dates and specifics , but , I actually got to know Susan Atkins pretty well , one of the Family members who is now in prison . |
| 26 | Gradually Tindle also got to know Keith Vaughan whom he visited regularly on Saturday mornings after Vaughan had moved to Belsize Park . |
| 27 | Arlott , someone said once , seemed to know things he had no right to know . |
| 28 | No one ever seemed to know William 's surname and he had a bizarre appearance at a time when smartness was highly valued . |
| 29 | Thompson , from Kentucky , came to know Muller 's work in Provincetown after Muller 's death in 1958 . |
| 30 | It 's so good that I came to know Jesus as Lord before this silly disease got so bad . |