Example sentences of "[vb past] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter was the test pilot used to be testing the Harvards over Walsall , and the engines used to make noises like angry wasps which was Walsall people became to know very well . |
| 2 | With sin and corruption , doom and catastrophe , threatening on every side , the only danger from the clergy came if they failed to know or do their job . |
| 3 | Of course I got nowhere and she found out all she cared to know about me ( though not about my friends ) . |
| 4 | The supplier had a number of names and no-one who dealt with him knew , or cared to know , which was the real one . |
| 5 | Such references to the freedom of the divine will were often used in the seventeenth century to justify attacks on rationalist theories of nature , whose authors presumed to know how God must have shaped the world . |
| 6 | Unless one presumed to know God 's purposes , how could one know that He might not achieve them by varying the quantity of motion ? |
| 7 | ‘ So it would , ’ Burun responded amiably , ‘ if I expected to know him again . ’ |
| 8 | Roth got to know Bellow in Chicago , where Roth worked as a university teacher , finding it a lively place . |
| 9 | ‘ It would be a pity if your wife got to know . |
| 10 | ‘ Those people just had something special and we got to know them well , ’ Andrew said . |
| 11 | He is perching on the railway , six stops down the line , with a stationmaster he got to know somehow when he was on the town in Petersburg — the Dostoevsky no-home at its most stripped and strange in this novel of aimless movement . |
| 12 | But then once they got to know you … |
| 13 | He got to know them well : years later when they appeared suddenly he could remember who they were . |
| 14 | In February and March it was hard going out almost nightly but he liked it and Joan got to know the wives and children of the clergy . |
| 15 | While he was at Arista , Charles and I got to know each other well . |
| 16 | I never really got to know her She was the most obtuse person I ever met . |
| 17 | I did longer than most and it had the advantage that , given there was much greater stability of employment then , I got to know a very large number of people . |
| 18 | Surtees was a good choice , but I never got to know him the way I did Graham Hill , Jackie Stewart and Pedro Rodriguez . |
| 19 | Significantly , his successor was not a football player at all but a journalist who got to know the Arsenal chairman while working as a society correspondent for the New York Herald . |
| 20 | Then he caught glimpses of the freer way of life of his father 's bachelor brother and , as he explored and fished along the canal , got to know Dad Uzzell who remained a surrogate father-figure for the rest of Edward 's life . |
| 21 | He soon got to know the other joggers of the district . |
| 22 | I got to know . ’ |
| 23 | Oh , admittedly the novels are n't available there , but people got to know about it and wondered how she had the nerve to reveal it . |
| 24 | When he got to know her a bit better , he was further excited by her strength of will , her independence , her commitment to the Irish nationalist cause , and — best of all , he reckoned — her utterly straight-faced enthusiasm for his explorations of the Celtic spirit-world . |
| 25 | Soon Endill got to know more of the library . |
| 26 | I had supposed it would be Mrs Livesey who got to know first . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ When I was still involved in commercial work , I also used to foster kids ’ , he says , ‘ and , consequently , got to know a lot about the care system . |
| 28 | ‘ Gradually I got to know what would work , it caught the mood , the shadows held up and the grain was soft , it was like a pastel painting . |
| 29 | ‘ He was always acting the goat , that 's why I got to know him . |
| 30 | From the open door of the shed he had a good view of Firelight grazing and she got to know where he was and would come up to the hedge close by and wait for titbits . |