21.   I get to know the characters intimately and let them guide the action, making it up as I go along.

22.   It was a jarring sight for anyone who knows the characters only as lovable cartoons with bad overbites.

23.   It was a jarring sight for someone who knows the characters only as lovable cartoon characters with bad overbites.

24.   Maybe we got to know these characters too well.

25.   One drawback to repeating the classics in conventional productions is that we know the characters too well.

26.   Once you have demystified a new vegetable by trying it, you will know its character and be inspired to try it in other recipes.

27.   People who know me, who know my character, know I would never do this.

28.   The children knew the character from the on-air promotions.

29.   The inspiration for both expressions appears to be Humphrey Bogart, an actor whose characters were known for boldness and an ever-present cigarette.

30.   The previous weeks had been, he says, a period of letting the actors get to know their characters with little directorial intervention.