Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it really necessitated small samples of pupils who I got to know fairly well , rather than a large sample . |
| 2 | So it really necessitated small samples of pupils who I got to know fairly well , rather than a large sample . |
| 3 | He was a good journalist and one I 'd known professionally for many years . |
| 4 | It was always by accident I 'd come upon him with others and watch him converse with people I 'd known nearly all my life , lighting them with his interest , vignettes in which I played no part . |
| 5 | ‘ If I 'd known then what I learned since I would not have lost the job or my place but I simply had some growing up to do . |
| 6 | Yet if I 'd known then that the cup was Undry … |
| 7 | The Jessica I 'd known then would have felt more enthusiasm for a Christmas cracker bangle than she was showing for her gold bracelet . |
| 8 | If I 'd known then what I knew later , the envelope would have gone in with it . |
| 9 | I only wish I 'd known before that he was so ill . |
| 10 | He was one of the original ‘ Group of Seven ’ Canadian painters , and Emily Carr , whom I came to know later , was another . |
| 11 | It was a considerable while before I came to know more Tory politicians and acted as an adviser , not to the party , but to a great many Tories . |
| 12 | As senior officer on duty I came to know only too well the loneliness of old age . |
| 13 | Gordon Welchman in The Hut Six Story tells an amusing yarn about the man who took over the administration of the ‘ highly intelligent female staff ’ of the Decoding Room and the Registration Room , and whom I grew to know quite well : |
| 14 | I had to know exactly where he was in the room . |
| 15 | Surprisingly , I had difficulty in finding one until David Haig-Thomas , whom I had known slightly at Eton , offered to come with me . |
| 16 | Our wartime experiences were nearly at an end and I sat there thinking of all the many people I had known briefly , wondering if I should see any of them again , and remembering the many whom I knew I should never see again . |
| 17 | It was the end of my time in the Caribbean , of the sheltered , warm , family life that I had known there , and the beginning of a new and exciting era . |
| 18 | ‘ At first Eadred tried to bluff , claiming Sir John was a local landowner , but then he confessed that Santerre was funding Abbot Bere 's construction of the crypt but told me if I wished to know more , I should ask either Sir John or the abbot . |
| 19 | Being a very visual person , and unable to see inside me , I wanted to know exactly what this ‘ thing ’ looked like . |
| 20 | I wanted to know more about what was going on . |
| 21 | It is recorded that the area north of the river was probably uninhabitable with dense forests to the north and east of the area which became known later as Middlesex , with heath and scrub to the south , except along the margin of the river , which ‘ margin ’ was of considerable width . |
| 22 | The advance of these oil-producing countries , which became known collectively as the ‘ non-OPEC ’ group , was a notable feature of the early 1980s . |
| 23 | If they had known , people might have said he was a reformed character , but nobody had known much about his bad ways because he had worked on his own . |
| 24 | Home , a place he himself had known only briefly . |
| 25 | She got to know so much about the individual and her home circumstances . |
| 26 | You think of women you 've known and wish you 'd known better , and you wonder what they 're doing now . |
| 27 | What she 'd known instinctively from the start was absolutely right . |
| 28 | Alice thought perhaps she 'd known already she was ill . |
| 29 | She 'd known exactly what she was getting into when she had applied for a job with the commodity brokers , McKenzie Dunton . |
| 30 | She 'd known all along , deep down , that they had left her . |