get to know
come to know

The college thus came to be known by her name.

And so the name came to be known to us.

But in time they will come to know us as we really are.

He saw them often enough to come to know their nature.

You seem to have come to know him very well.

My father and I first came to know him in 1995.

I come to sort of know what's going on all along the line.

But of course he wouldn't have come to know her so well then.

Now we live almost half of each year here and I have come to know far less.

We spent many hours together and were able to come to know each other very well.