Example sentences of "know [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Funny is n't it how we meet people , how you can know them for ages then you just sort of talk to them , or once you start talking to them you realize that you 've got |
| 2 | If you 've been to any of the major house parties , you 'd know them by sight , if not by name . |
| 3 | Not only did this eventually solve the problem but , as Mrs. Dibble said , ‘ Please bear in mind that Lena did n't know me from Adam but she was so helpful and concerned , she took a chance on my honesty . ’ |
| 4 | But only those who know me very well call me Fen , and I do n't know you from Adam — or perhaps I should say Eve . ’ |
| 5 | The world was to christen him ‘ The Doc ’ but those who followed his bewildering career as it lurched from one club to another will always know him as Dr Strangelove , a man with a healthy appetite for the physiotherapist 's wife . |
| 6 | You 'll know him as Adrian from BBC1 's Bread . |
| 7 | She takes a short cut down Avondale Road , and passes the five-bedroom detached house of Vic Wilcox without a glance , for she does not know him from Adam , and the house is outwardly no different from any of the other modern executive dwellings in this exclusive residential district : red brick and white paint , ‘ Georgian ’ windows , a tarmac drive and double garage , a burglar alarm prominently displayed on the front elevation . ) |
| 8 | ‘ Look here , Jenna , he may be your stepbrother but you do n't know him from Adam . |
| 9 | One was new and had come instead of his uncle who was ill , but the guards would not let him in because they did not know him by sight and they nearly threw him into the ditch before they would even let him go home . |
| 10 | They might not know him by sight , or might not be looking for him at all . |
| 11 | No , I might know him by sight , but er I ca n't think of him |
| 12 | And every time he c used to come home on leave she used to cry , she did n't know him in uniform till he till he put his own clothes on . |
| 13 | No , you I used to know her from church in Oxford , before she moved down here . |
| 14 | Cos they they did n't live far from me , I did know her by sight . |
| 15 | I 'm sure I 'll know her by sight . |
| 16 | James 's mum said to me , and she does n't know her from Adam , she said |
| 17 | " She only agreed to it because I used to know him at school . " |
| 18 | For God in his wisdom made it impossible for people to know him by means of their own wisdom ( v. 21 ) . |
| 19 | He was not saying merely that you believed it , but that you could know it as certainty ! |
| 20 | You 'll know it from lyrics that dwell on ‘ the final kill , the final thrill ’ , titles like ‘ Shoot Up Hill ’ ( a real place , in Kilburn , irony fans ) and a cute little skull-and-crossbones on the packaging of ‘ Valid ’ . |
| 21 | But if Posidonius had paid attention to the structure of Italy before or after the Social War we should know it from Strabo who used his work extensively . |
| 22 | And a good example is Carl Perkins : we did n't know it until years later , but Carl and I were born and raised within fourteen miles of each other , and I 'm only about three , four months older than he is . |
| 23 | One of the reasons for this preference may be that I first came to know it at Windrush . |
| 24 | But my friends all know me as Buck . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ People know me in Weatherbury . |
| 26 | Mm , it 's very easy to think that , until you know them as people , I must admit , there are , |
| 27 | The laws of science , as we know them at present , contain many fundamental numbers , like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron . |
| 28 | You can know everything about a person , and know them for years , and still be miles away from them . |
| 29 | For we know them by heart after 18 long years , |
| 30 | Substitution of I for E so instead of forget you know I for E So instead of saying forget you 'd say forgit . |