Example sentences of "to know [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin sat down ; he had been wanting to get to know Sarah better for some time and this seemed like a good opportunity . |
| 2 | He 'ate the English , but when he gets to know Perdita , ’ Alejandro smiled at her from under the peak of his cap , ‘ he will forgeeve . ’ |
| 3 | No one ever seemed to know William 's surname and he had a bizarre appearance at a time when smartness was highly valued . |
| 4 | The Prince had come to know Van der Post in Kenya two years before , when he had been his guide on safari . |
| 5 | It is difficult to know Beatrice 's intention from her column . |
| 6 | I say surprisingly because I happen to know Tod is n't squeamish . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He first got to know Minton through his parents while studying painting at Chelsea Polytechnic . |
| 9 | America gets to know Germany |
| 10 | ‘ It is not possible to know Germany . |
| 11 | Mr Cubbage was by this time almost demented , he had to know Coleen 's decision , so he wrote an impassioned letter begging her to accept his proposal of marriage . |
| 12 | ‘ You have n't begun to know Michel . |
| 13 | Patiently , steadily , he was easing his way back into her life , seeing her regularly , but not too regularly , and taking pains to get to know Dickie and myself , which was sensible since we were both important to Margaret . |
| 14 | Get to know Steffi , or Stefan , Gabriela , or Boris , Andre , or Arantxa a little better by subscribing to a Tennis World fan club service for one year — you know it makes sense … |
| 15 | Dorcas had spent many a peaceful hour getting to know Jekub . |
| 16 | ‘ First , I must tell you how I came to know Beatrix . |
| 17 | Oh I used to know Bert |
| 18 | ‘ My daughter goes back to school this week after the half-term break and she really wants to know Penny is all right before she goes . |
| 19 | Voight first got to know Dustin well when he was playing Rudolpho in A View from the Bridge in January 1965 , on which Dustin had been assistant director . |
| 20 | They were not the sort of questions she could ask on so brief an acquaintance , but she was unable at present to think of an excuse that would allow her to get to know Veronica better . |
| 21 | He came to know Edward Johnston [ q.v. ] , whose seminal book , Writing and Illuminating and Lettering ( 1906 ) , stimulated his study of Renaissance handwriting and of palaeography , where he found the inspiration for the italic script and type associated with his name . |
| 22 | Thompson , from Kentucky , came to know Muller 's work in Provincetown after Muller 's death in 1958 . |
| 23 | As a teenager exploring Scotland ‘ by bike and hike ’ I came to know Loch Lochy Youth Hostel well . |
| 24 | Now , I 'd like to know Mick , does Jack talk to you , does he talk to your counterpart in the T & G ? |
| 25 | I 'll need to get to know Nahum 's family . |
| 26 | Through his uncle , Dr Thomas Harland , he got to know Gustav Christian Schwabe , a partner in the Liverpool shipping company of John Bibby & Sons . |
| 27 | As an active member of the suffragette movement she got to know Dr Jessie Margaret Murray , who in 1913 opened the London Medico-Psychological Clinic , of which May Sinclair became a founding member . |
| 28 | She said : ‘ You got to know Benedict Joseph as well , did you ? ’ |
| 29 | An example of the latter point I made is shown on pg 45 where he tells of how he came to know Eddie . |
| 30 | As a handsome young man anxious to better himself in society , McCarty certainly got to know Cooper very quickly , and by the mid-Sixties was solidly ensconced in Cooper 's life . |