Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as Sgt Wilson 's thesis was channelled to me because I was known to be interested in research , so many police research departments now get allocated the task of reading the essays submitted by sergeants and inspectors for NEBS or DMS qualifications . |
| 2 | Nicknames are a favourite pastime with small boys and so during the next four years and one term I was known to my school mates as ‘ Pavement ’ . |
| 3 | ( I had taken to climbing over the railings of the barracks each night , as the watchmen on the gate had been forbidden to let me in as I was known to be sleeping there . |
| 4 | ‘ I was sacked because I was known to the local RUC as an ex-republican prisoner , ’ he said from Portlaoise Prison . |
| 5 | I suppose he thought I was not giving of my best , and as I was known as a rather shy , reserved sort , he had decided that a quiet word at an informal moment would be the best approach . |
| 6 | In those days I was known as ‘ Horse ’ because it was said that I galloped , so the cries from team-mates Mike Powell and Ossie Cham were ‘ Come on , Horse ! ’ |
| 7 | I was known as Billy , and was three when he wrote to his mother : |
| 8 | One agent I met with admitted that I was known in the business as a ‘ bit of a cheap turn ’ . |
| 9 | Simone 's eyes were sparkling , and Alyssia said frigidly , ‘ I had no idea you were known in this part of the world . ’ |
| 10 | She says other prisoners used to chant ’ Baroness , ’ but eventually they accepted her and she was know as the Duchess . |
| 11 | And then at a certain point she felt , and we felt , that Madam was n't quite enough ; and so just now , anyway , she was known as Madame , and no one in The Bar ever addressed her as anything else . |
| 12 | The light-bearing principle which they represent ( in Florence Nightingale 's case , she was known as ‘ The Lady with the Lamp ’ ) can remain in the public imagination long after the personality has been forgotten . |
| 13 | Built in 1891 by Manning Wardle ( works no. 1210 ) as class L , the 12″ 0 6 0ST spent the first 40 years of her life working for the Doncaster contractors , Logan and Hemingway where she was known as No. 10 . |
| 14 | She was later informed by Annabel that she was known as Body Smell because she had to empty the slops into the cesspit . |
| 15 | That 's what she was known as when she was on the game , ’ Soapy informed him . |
| 16 | His attention was also caught by a woman dressed in midnight-blue satin and diamonds ; the sister of a Middle-Eastern ruler , she was known as an audacious gambler . |
| 17 | She was known as an excellent microscopist . |
| 18 | In Albania she was known as the queen of the mountaineers , and streets there have remained named after her through all changes of regime . |
| 19 | She worked as a midwife in the small township of Eastwood in New South Wales where she was known as ‘ Granny Smith ’ because she had delivered so many babies . |
| 20 | ‘ A proper old duck ’ , she was known as locally , but she was a duck who had somehow acquired a set of sharp teeth with a bite . |
| 21 | And she seemed to call her , she was known as Mrs , Miss . |
| 22 | When she bent over Sarah there was no sign of sympathy , yet she was known for her kindness . |
| 23 | She was known for her acerbity , her cucumber sandwiches , and her insistence on decorum . |
| 24 | Throughout her career she was known for her powerful and abrasive manner : what Beatrice Webb described as her ‘ shrewd and capable but contentious ’ style , her ‘ insolently critical attitude towards all persons and institutions ’ , and her ‘ sharp satirical tongue ’ . |
| 25 | In Scotland she was known for her " push " , her ability to spark off ideas in those with a similar mental agility , her determination to get things done . |
| 26 | She was known to all in the French Quarter for her good looks , her own hard-luck story ( two marriages , two troubled kids , a problem with drink ) and the soft spot she had for the hard-luck stories of others , poets in particular . |
| 27 | The fact that she was known to be on a special complex carbohydrate diet designed to help her regain weight did n't help matters . |
| 28 | She was known to regularly have to cook Sunday lunch with all the village youths lounging around her kitchen — times do not change . |
| 29 | Detectives said she was known to be upset over personal problems and ex-pressed serious concern for her safety . |
| 30 | Detectives in Colchester expressed concern for Lisa 's safety following her disappearance and revealed that she was known to be upset over personal problems . |