Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pers pn] knew [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She reminds me of someone I seen — someone I knew really well . |
| 2 | It sounded as though she were talking to someone she knew well , or at least had dealt with previously , because she called her interlocutor ‘ Tonio ’ and smiled continuously as though engaged in invisible wooing and sometimes she laughed . |
| 3 | ‘ Only if , ’ said Connon slowly , ‘ only if it was someone she knew well . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Someone you knew well ? ’ asked Tessa . |
| 5 | I want to come back to Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School , but Strauss was someone you knew personally ? |
| 6 | We would not be attending a funeral service unless someone we knew well had died . |
| 7 | Once Clive was in the hypnotic state on this occasion , I asked him to visualize going up to someone he knew slightly , taking a few deep breaths and then asking them a simple question — ‘ Could you please tell me the time ? ’ or ‘ Do you know the way to such-and-such a street ? ’ |
| 8 | Yes she 's somebody I knew very very well indeed . |
| 9 | Fifty-six per cent of these men lost their virginity to somebody they knew well ; for 14% , the partner was someone they had just met . |
| 10 | I had to lift my gaze from the old dashboard that I had sat in front of for more than sixty years to a new one , and the only new one I knew of displayed the dials and instruments of what is called holistic medicine and which at that time I took to be something I knew virtually nothing about . |
| 11 | No one I knew well , just one man or another , seen in the street or at a party . |
| 12 | And when I did , there was no one I knew there . |
| 13 | So what if he did want something from her , something she knew quite well she had n't got ? |
| 14 | If they were looking for something they knew where it was . |
| 15 | Time after time , people would slowly open a drawer and give me something they knew perfectly well they 'd had all the time I 'd been visiting them and talking to them , but the moment was now right . |
| 16 | There was no elderly widow to con , but there was an empty house , and one he knew well . |
| 17 | So thick had the mist become that he had almost lost his way and hoping to hear the call of one of the animals to orientate himself had heard an eagle 's call and one he knew well . |
| 18 | Cassie had heard many shades of emotion expressed by Johnny 's voice , indeed it was a powerful weapon and one he knew only too well how to use to good effect , but never had she heard him use the particular tone with which he now addressed his wife . |
| 19 | I wondered if there would be anyone I knew there . |
| 20 | I might be dead for all anyone I knew ever cared . |
| 21 | ‘ See anyone you knew there ? ’ |
| 22 | Once or twice she said , ‘ It 's not right for you to have so much to do , Em , ’ but mostly she just took the tea and sipped it and looked at Emmie as if she was n't anyone she knew very well , any more . |
| 23 | ‘ I know that if Ken had had any kind of sexual relationship it would n't have been with anyone he knew well . |