Example sentences of "he [vb past] know [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill O'Reilly has told me how he got to know Jardine in later tours of England as a cricketer and writer . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Through his uncle , Dr Thomas Harland , he got to know Gustav Christian Schwabe , a partner in the Liverpool shipping company of John Bibby & Sons . |
| 4 | Close friend the director of the Lord Taverners Patrick Shervington has been in to see him too , he got to know Leslie Crowther through the entertainer 's extensive charity work . |
| 5 | She was certainly a bewitching woman , but then he 'd known others every bit as bewitching , and not been panicked by them . |
| 6 | He had never been taken in , not really , not inside , but he 'd known moments of doubt , so his delight and relief were unbounded now he found that his instincts had been right all along ! |
| 7 | Where , I gather , Dhani put him in a Buddhist monastery and nursed him back to health — he 'd known Dhani at school and Cambridge . |
| 8 | He 'd known loathing and hatred before . |
| 9 | He 'd known Adam , had n't he ? |
| 10 | He 'd known Taylor had the plague , but had n't realized people were counting the days to his demise . |
| 11 | Yet if he 'd known Ryan first … and Mr Green had said Ryan had a partner , had n't he ? |
| 12 | ‘ He 'd known Tristram . |
| 13 | He 'd known Creed would find out . |
| 14 | He 'd known Leverrier rather better than the other masters ; they had shared a common interest in botany . |
| 15 | He 'd known Lucy 's room as soon as he 'd seen it . |
| 16 | He came to know Jesus Christ . |
| 17 | When asked on one occasion what he considered Truth to be , it would seem that Gandhi interpreted the question as a request for information as to how he came to know Truth . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | An example of the latter point I made is shown on pg 45 where he tells of how he came to know Eddie . |
| 20 | As Head of Poetry in the early days of the Third Programme he grew to know Dylan Thomas , Roy Campbell and the post-war generation of poets and writers . |
| 21 | Although he did know George Gardner , who was born on 19th September 1778 , he did not mention meeting his father Daniel Gardner , the portrait painter who was born in 1750 and died in 1805 . |
| 22 | In all the time he had know Joe , he had never seen anyone else in his room ; indeed he had never seen him in company , except at the meetings of the IRB . |
| 23 | as if he had known Doyle all his life . |
| 24 | Paul McBride , for Todd , 32 , of Hogarth Road , London , said that he had known Sim for a number of years and out of loyalty wanted to help him . |
| 25 | Bush might have spoken differently if he had known Clinton would be running in 1992 . |
| 26 | Speaking at his home last night , Mr Hall refused to say if he had known Timex had been planning to close the factory . |
| 27 | He was an elderly Scotsman , a man of the north , who had worked all his life in South London and was now near to retirement ; he had known Phyllis Henley for almost all of his career . |
| 28 | He had known Ruth since she was born . |
| 29 | He had known Nurse Jones for thirty years , she was an institution in the village . |
| 30 | The silver-framed photograph of Philippe Chaumont had appeared for the first time since he had known Chantal . |