Example sentences of "he [verb] known " in BNC.
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| 1 | One wore a black felt hat , and his shoulder-length hair and beard were silver enough for him to have known the beatnik era . |
| 2 | It would have been very unusual for him to have known a fact like that about his son 's life and movements . |
| 3 | Kermode is referring to the demise of the man of letters , or the ‘ bookman ’ as he became known in late-Victorian England , and his replacement by the professionalized university critic . |
| 4 | This is partly because he became known much sooner . |
| 5 | When he became known as the composer of marches and was about to take up his first bandmaster post , his wife suggested he use the letters on his case , S.O.U.S.A. as a professional name , and he took the names of his sons as his Christian names . |
| 6 | The irony of all this is that ‘ Finn ’ , as he became known to us all , had been an apprentice here at Selhurst Park in the late 1970s . |
| 7 | In fact he became known as Tony ‘ play me anywhere as long as you play me ’ Taylor ! |
| 8 | Born in Hereford in 1855 , he became known throughout his native county as he built up a detailed knowledge of the countryside of Herefordshire and the Welsh border . |
| 9 | ( ’ Cardinal York' , as he became known , was a fervent believer in the Stuart cause and eventually called himself Henry IX , but plays little further part in the invasion story . ) |
| 10 | The myth developing around Johnson took on an existence of its own and he became known as a hero of black folklore , fitting into that tradition of ‘ bad niggers ’ , moral hard men who were , according to Lawrence Levine , ‘ admired because they had the strength , courage and ability to flout the limitations imposed by white society ’ ( 1977 , p.420 ) . |
| 11 | In fact he was so huge that he became known as the Paunch of Misty Mountain , or simply as Grom the Fat . |
| 12 | He became known as ‘ Bung Karno ’ . |
| 13 | Thus he became known and he declined repeated calls to important churches before accepting the challenge of the debt-burdened Whitefield 's Tabernacle in Tottenham Court Road , London . |
| 14 | In his lifetime an obscure figure ( he was ignored by contemporary obituarists ) , he became known in the twentieth century through the publication of his Diaries , journals of horseback tours through England and Wales . |
| 15 | Another Mitchell got his nickname for always having his head stuck in a boys annual of the twenties — he became known as " Pill Box Annual " but this eventually was shortened to Annal Mitchell , by which he is still known . |
| 16 | As a lawyer he became known for his defence of dissidents and conscientious objectors . |
| 17 | This meant the first change of name for the young Michael Smith ; he became known as Ingram , and there was no love lost between him and his stepfather . |
| 18 | In response the Syrian-based Seljuk dynasty fought back , especially through the exploits of the Kurd Salah al-Din ( Saladdin as he became known in the West ) who himself took Egypt establishing his own Ayyubid dynasty in 1171 . |
| 19 | Part of the crest on his ducal coat of arms was a lion , and he became known as the Lion of Venice . |
| 20 | General Norman Schwarzkopf , or Stormin' Norman as he became known , retired from the forces last year . |
| 21 | Like many , he got known in the UK through the Virgin ‘ Techno ’ compilations but , when he came to Britain with Inner City 's ‘ Big Fun ’ tour , his career and personal life nose-dived when Blake discovered he was epileptic . |
| 22 | ‘ Fisher ’ , he said , ‘ was my headmaster and he has known ail my deficiencies for a long time . ’ |
| 23 | Yes , he says , he has known it a little worse , but not much . |
| 24 | He has known no want either materially or of a mother 's love for you have supplied both abundantly and he will be reminded of this all his life you can be sure . |
| 25 | He may be ill from the voyage , he may be homesick for the only home he has known , he may be … ’ |
| 26 | There was no doubting her sister 's passion as she struggled to express her resentment , writing : — on my life Lily I declare I want only what is best for the child and would not be Cruel to him nor the cause of Cruelty and what you asked was Cruel the child knowing no Italian and being Fearful of leaving me the only Mother he has known and who he loves as his own . |
| 27 | At this level you need people like Mick playing at their best — and he has known times when that has unfortunately not been the case . |
| 28 | He knew it was wrong , but it is the first experience of real love and tenderness he has known in years . |
| 29 | Up to now he has known the soft ride of the foreigners ’ block at Vladimir … |
| 30 | The profits from Jimmy Campbell 's cleverly-titled book about the Blackpool he has known for more than 45 years will go to the RNLI , and so it is perhaps appropriate that the very first chapter looks at the well-known Bickerstaffe family . |