Example sentences of "[vb past] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course I got nowhere and she found out all she cared to know about me ( though not about my friends ) . |
| 2 | Oh , admittedly the novels are n't available there , but people got to know about it and wondered how she had the nerve to reveal it . |
| 3 | Put the board up , too , by all means — yes , it 's quite all right ; such things are not prohibited in Catkin Lane — but the handbills would ensure that everybody got to know about you . |
| 4 | Anyway , the clergyman who came to look after those who were C of E got to know about Grandma 's skill as a sewer and also knew that a little bit of extra money would be welcome in her household . |
| 5 | Then the more we got to know about it the more I had to laugh . |
| 6 | ‘ Sir , you know we do , though how you got to know about them I ca n't imagine . ’ |
| 7 | When I came over here I got to know about Kyrle Hall [ a Birmingham amateur club ] and went along there with my pumps and shorts and that was my introduction to boxing really . |
| 8 | Well I got to know about them when I first got married , when I was in the back street , you know in the terraces . |
| 9 | People just got to know about her . |
| 10 | Say he somehow got to know of Aldhelm 's coming , even so by avoiding he could only delay recognition , not prevent it , he would have to reappear in the end . |
| 11 | Certainly the people I got to know during my fifteen months on the sports circuit for the Sunday Correspondent readily confirmed my own impression that McIlvanney is the best in the business . |
| 12 | But the great hikes we undertake on our holidays , usually in the Highlands of Scotland , or some other bleak , wet , cold hill country that I got to know in the days when I used to go climbing by myself ( and there 's another subject we might discuss ! ) , habitually entail a complex of discomfort , exhaustion , irritation , confusion , sheer misery and intense exhilaration so closely intertwined that I shall have to leave them to be considered on another occasion . |
| 13 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 14 | I think we got to know around mid-February . |
| 15 | Stirling himself flitted between Kabrit and Cairo , becoming increasingly worried about the size of the operation and the number of people who seemed to know about it . |
| 16 | He seemed to know about it , at least , the wrong side of it . |
| 17 | It would boost their egos to talk to a director of a leading bank , or a key man in a well-known company as an equal , and it was incredibly revealing how little such high up people seemed to know about shares , how desperately motivated they were by greed . |
| 18 | Of course , maybe I 've missed him entirely and he 's already set off on whatever trip Mr Archer seemed to know about . |
| 19 | Just as Jesus seemed to know about everything that there is in our life . |
| 20 | Now she went to her corner next to which was a cupboard no one seemed to know about except Mrs Brocklebank , shared by her and a certain amount of animal life , and deposited her bag and coat . |
| 21 | She seemed to know about it . |
| 22 | She did n't dare go in : he was such a light sleeper , and he seemed to know by instinct when his mother was in the same room . |
| 23 | Eleanor Mary Milligan , as she was hastily christened the same week her mother was buried , seemed to know from the moment she came into this world at number 1015 Westfield Avenue that in order to survive she must be good and quiet , and not be any trouble to her father or brothers . |
| 24 | When eventually the court decided that mother and daughter could be reunited , Rosemary was subsequently staying with friends of her mother , people she came to know as ‘ auntie ’ and ‘ uncle ’ . |
| 25 | Mrs X had no idea what she had done wrong — I eventually came to know of this situation and arranged accommodation with an Asian family . |
| 26 | Without such pressure even my execution at the hands of the Khad was a possibility … your efforts and support greatly encouraged me and my family , for when I came to know of them I was indeed strengthened by them . ’ |
| 27 | This rather craven attitude was not because the book was a piece of polemical special pleading — far from it : Hooper makes every effort to give an impartial account of what he saw , and the men he came to know under combat conditions . |
| 28 | I can not imagine how on earth he even came to know about them because it was long before radio was introduced . |
| 29 | Ronald Duncan , whom I came to know about this time ( our first meeting took place when I made a bicycle tour of Cornwall in the summer of 1947 ) , spoke of having received a telegram from Eliot cancelling an engagement and saying that he had to ‘ bury a woman ’ . |
| 30 | She had achieved her purpose in being able to watch Angel grow , but often she was homesick for Clerkenwell and the friends she 'd known since childhood . |