Example sentences of "he [verb] 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 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 .
6 What he wants to know Daphne is , for how long should he wait ?
7 She was certainly a bewitching woman , but then he 'd known others every bit as bewitching , and not been panicked by them .
8 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 !
9 Where , I gather , Dhani put him in a Buddhist monastery and nursed him back to health — he 'd known Dhani at school and Cambridge .
10 He 'd known loathing and hatred before .
11 He 'd known Adam , had n't he ?
12 He 'd known Taylor had the plague , but had n't realized people were counting the days to his demise .
13 Yet if he 'd known Ryan first … and Mr Green had said Ryan had a partner , had n't he ?
14 He 'd known Tristram .
15 He 'd known Creed would find out .
16 He 'd known Leverrier rather better than the other masters ; they had shared a common interest in botany .
17 He 'd known Lucy 's room as soon as he 'd seen it .
18 He came to know Jesus Christ .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 An example of the latter point I made is shown on pg 45 where he tells of how he came to know Eddie .
22 He 'ate the English , but when he gets to know Perdita , ’ Alejandro smiled at her from under the peak of his cap , ‘ he will forgeeve . ’
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 as if he had known Doyle all his life .
27 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 .
28 Bush might have spoken differently if he had known Clinton would be running in 1992 .
29 Speaking at his home last night , Mr Hall refused to say if he had known Timex had been planning to close the factory .
30 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 .
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