Example sentences of "he knew [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , he knew Mario 's skills as a preparer of cars were second to none . |
| 2 | He knew Mario was the Number One and he knew why Mario was Number One : it was a matter of business . |
| 3 | No one had — at least officially — offered him the job , though he knew Hogan of Marlboro would be glad to have him , but the bluff worked . |
| 4 | Anyway , he knew Steve Hilaire , and he could reach the picture through him . |
| 5 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 6 | The trouble was that by the time he knew Mosley was a serious electoral threat to his position , it was almost too late . |
| 7 | He was educated at Trinity College , Cambridge , where he knew Hope , Baillie Cochrane and probably Stirling . |
| 8 | He knew Athelstan spoke the truth . |
| 9 | She was never quite at ease with Finn , in spite of playing ‘ Battleships ’ with him ; his oblique glance sidled around her and he grinned as if he knew secrets about her which he would not share . |
| 10 | He knew roads , houses , remote farms and new developments so well that vital minutes could be saved . |
| 11 | The commercial manager had admitted he obtained the job ‘ because he knew Randolph 's brother ’ , and was ‘ totally out of his depth ’ . |
| 12 | He sent me to Andrus in the early part of the night because he knew Andrus lacked women . ’ |
| 13 | He knew Blanche would be much happier with the file photo the same newspaper had used of her . |
| 14 | He knew Blanche was nervous by her uncharacteristic air of distraction and tried to calm her with compliments about her appearance . |
| 15 | He knew Johansen was right . |
| 16 | ‘ He never even told me he knew Elvis . |
| 17 | He knew Katherine Lundy 's reputation in Dublin , knew what she was , knew how she had achieved her reputation there and how she had carved herself a slice of the London underworld . |
| 18 | He had a genius for staging that was absolutely simple ; and he knew music — ballet , the symphonic repertoire — as well as any conductor . |
| 19 | He knew Terry Place , did n't he ? ’ |
| 20 | He knew Preston would n't have left . |
| 21 | He had been a friend of Lawrence of Arabia ; he knew Ottoline Morrell , at whose house Garsington Manor he had met Virginia Woolf , Bertrand Russell and D. H. Lawrence , among others . |
| 22 | He knew Reni well , as he was the only scribe who had held high office both under Akhenaten and the new regime . |
| 23 | She said that it did not matter whether or not he knew Alexander Atkins and instructed him to take down a message for him . |
| 24 | But he knew Marius Steen was inside . |
| 25 | Spatz was a fool when it came to science , but he knew disrespect when he saw it . |
| 26 | Forster once wrote to me that he knew Ivy 's characters were good as well as clever ; they are a great deal better than anyone in his books . |
| 27 | McLeish thanked him gravely , feeling , as he often did with the Wilsons , that he was being enveloped in a large feather eiderdown , and , made restless by the call , went down the corridor to where he knew Catherine Crane was also in , getting her office in order . |
| 28 | Pitt thought of new campaigns ; he knew Spain was thinking of entering the war on the French side , and he prepared an expedition against Cuba and another against the Philippines . |
| 29 | Actually , he knew Lt. Vologsky well . |
| 30 | His gown was rich and sombre ; he knew cloths , and had the means to buy the best . |