Example sentences of "he [vb past] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kermode is referring to the demise of the man of letters , or the ‘ bookman ’ as he became known in late-Victorian England , and his replacement by the professionalized university critic . |
| 2 | This is partly because he became known much sooner . |
| 3 | When he became known as the composer of marches and was about to take up his first bandmaster post , his wife suggested he use the letters on his case , S.O.U.S.A. as a professional name , and he took the names of his sons as his Christian names . |
| 4 | The irony of all this is that ‘ Finn ’ , as he became known to us all , had been an apprentice here at Selhurst Park in the late 1970s . |
| 5 | In fact he became known as Tony ‘ play me anywhere as long as you play me ’ Taylor ! |
| 6 | Born in Hereford in 1855 , he became known throughout his native county as he built up a detailed knowledge of the countryside of Herefordshire and the Welsh border . |
| 7 | ( ’ Cardinal York' , as he became known , was a fervent believer in the Stuart cause and eventually called himself Henry IX , but plays little further part in the invasion story . ) |
| 8 | The myth developing around Johnson took on an existence of its own and he became known as a hero of black folklore , fitting into that tradition of ‘ bad niggers ’ , moral hard men who were , according to Lawrence Levine , ‘ admired because they had the strength , courage and ability to flout the limitations imposed by white society ’ ( 1977 , p.420 ) . |
| 9 | In fact he was so huge that he became known as the Paunch of Misty Mountain , or simply as Grom the Fat . |
| 10 | He became known as ‘ Bung Karno ’ . |
| 11 | Thus he became known and he declined repeated calls to important churches before accepting the challenge of the debt-burdened Whitefield 's Tabernacle in Tottenham Court Road , London . |
| 12 | In his lifetime an obscure figure ( he was ignored by contemporary obituarists ) , he became known in the twentieth century through the publication of his Diaries , journals of horseback tours through England and Wales . |
| 13 | Another Mitchell got his nickname for always having his head stuck in a boys annual of the twenties — he became known as " Pill Box Annual " but this eventually was shortened to Annal Mitchell , by which he is still known . |
| 14 | As a lawyer he became known for his defence of dissidents and conscientious objectors . |
| 15 | This meant the first change of name for the young Michael Smith ; he became known as Ingram , and there was no love lost between him and his stepfather . |
| 16 | In response the Syrian-based Seljuk dynasty fought back , especially through the exploits of the Kurd Salah al-Din ( Saladdin as he became known in the West ) who himself took Egypt establishing his own Ayyubid dynasty in 1171 . |
| 17 | Part of the crest on his ducal coat of arms was a lion , and he became known as the Lion of Venice . |
| 18 | General Norman Schwarzkopf , or Stormin' Norman as he became known , retired from the forces last year . |
| 19 | When Marek saw the headstone for the first time no one in the neighbourhood whom he asked knew anything about the man who had been buried there . |
| 20 | Like many , he got known in the UK through the Virgin ‘ Techno ’ compilations but , when he came to Britain with Inner City 's ‘ Big Fun ’ tour , his career and personal life nose-dived when Blake discovered he was epileptic . |
| 21 | He is perching on the railway , six stops down the line , with a stationmaster he got to know somehow when he was on the town in Petersburg — the Dostoevsky no-home at its most stripped and strange in this novel of aimless movement . |
| 22 | He got to know them well : years later when they appeared suddenly he could remember who they were . |
| 23 | When he got to know her a bit better , he was further excited by her strength of will , her independence , her commitment to the Irish nationalist cause , and — best of all , he reckoned — her utterly straight-faced enthusiasm for his explorations of the Celtic spirit-world . |
| 24 | But facing me in the nets for two winters , he got to know my bowling inside out and by the end of our stay in Cape Town he was hammering me all around the practice area . |
| 25 | Owing to the fact that most of his time was spent working on a vast selection of crashed and captured German aircraft , he got to know ( and love ) them quite well . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Minton was also on friendly terms with the fourth ‘ Kitchen Sink ’ painter , John Bratby , whom he got to know whilst acting as his tutor . |
| 28 | Bratby was intrigued by Minton and soon after he got to know him painted a huge picture on paper , entitled ‘ Homage to John Minton ’ . |
| 29 | Bill O'Reilly has told me how he got to know Jardine in later tours of England as a cricketer and writer . |
| 30 | He got to know the players of bluegrass music with which he was familiar from his youth and listened to blues singers like Big Bill Broonzy . |