Example sentences of "i knew he " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Goldberg in the margin : for the whole of the time I knew him he had , stuck on his studio wall , a reproduction of Picasso 's amazing 1943 painting of the mother teaching her child to walk . |
| 2 | Rik Mayall 's name was all it took to persuade Ate de Jong to direct the film : ‘ I knew him from his work in THE YOUNG ONES . |
| 3 | During the time I knew him , he never took acid as he was very much afraid of it , and counselled other people against it in the sense that he felt it might disturb them psychologically , and felt that 's what might happen to him |
| 4 | For the twenty years I knew him he had been close to only three girls , maybe only one . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ When I knew him , ’ writes Khrushchev , ‘ he was bursting with an impatient desire to rule the world . |
| 6 | ‘ Then I can say , ‘ I knew him when … ‘ ’ |
| 7 | ‘ At the record company party , on their hands a dead star at last , the sycophantic slags all say , ‘ I knew him best and I knew him well ’ . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ At the record company party , on their hands a dead star at last , the sycophantic slags all say , ‘ I knew him best and I knew him well ’ . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Alas , poor Bronze Age Fred , I knew him ; a fellow of infinite jest , of most excellent fancy … ’ |
| 10 | And I knew him better than anyone . |
| 11 | I was pleased when he asked me to do the test-flying programme for him and I had no qualms in agreeing , as I knew him to be a meticulous engineer . |
| 12 | ‘ I knew him in the army , ’ he said simply . |
| 13 | He had his little peccadilloes , the quaint and rather Machiavellian ways to gain his little ends , but he knew me and I knew him , and in essentials he made good . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 15 | I 'm sure he was , but the last few years when I knew him he 'd gotten a lot of respect from people and he was n't having to struggle any more , and I think he knew the people loved him and he liked that . |
| 16 | I was told stories about him and I know that he was pretty much a hellraiser , but when I knew him he was just a really nice guy . |
| 17 | His lying was pointless anyway , I knew him too well . |
| 18 | We married 18 months later and I thought I knew him fairly well . |
| 19 | Throughout all the time I knew him , he had no other interest in life that even vaguely approached the study of taxation . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It was at that place I told you about that I knew him , ’ he said to Lili . |
| 21 | I knew him well . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ I was sitting in the TV station next to a large man with glasses and beard and I felt I knew him . |
| 23 | He thought : I knew this man , not well but I knew him . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , I knew him slightly , mostly across a committee table . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , I knew him . ’ |
| 26 | It 's just that Hubert was always such a fool when I knew him , and I hoped he might have acquired a little common sense in the meantime . |
| 27 | As far as I 'm concerned , I went to Hector because I knew him and I knew he 'd let me have a boat cheaply , and I 've used it since then — since the fifteenth — for pleasure , and now to come over and look my people up . |
| 28 | He travelled as a seaman to Sydney where he won the Australian heavyweight title before transferring to San Francisco where he was persuaded by the Earl of Lonsdale to operate in England , a move which enhanced his status greatly , as a contemporary noted : ‘ I knew him in the days of his greatness when sitting on top of the pugilistic world , fêted and lionized , he might well have been excused some slight vanity ’ ( quoted by Henderson , 1949 , pp.20–1 ) . |
| 29 | A Alas poor Waldo , I knew him well . |
| 30 | I knew him well as he was a collector . |