Sentence examples for know the former from inspiring English sources

Tajik officials played down the disagreement, saying they merely needed to know the former king's intentions.

I came to know the former US secretary of defense Robert McNamara when he was in his 80s.

For all we know, the former president has been showering his wife with brilliant strategic advice in the background.

As far as we know, the former Mrs Imran Khan has yet to launch a musical career.

If you are foraging in an urban area, it is important to know the former land use, as industrial contamination can make it unsafe.

And I know, because I know people left and right, I know the prime minister, I know the former prime minister… I know everybody.

We already knew the former.

"Anyone who knows the former president knows what a voracious reader and student of history he is.

She has known the former general for many years, meeting him with her husband, Bill Clinton, during previous United Nations gatherings.

Mr. Burcher, 86, a retired teacher who now lives here in West Cape May, is one of the few people still living who knew the former town intimately.

"The course of his life is the course of Israeli history," Ari Shavit, an Israeli columnist who knows the former prime minister, said.