Example sentences of "[pron] have know [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
2 | I 'd known him from the start of punk . |
3 | I had known him for a number of years . |
4 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
5 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
6 | I said that I had been in the British Army which prompted another Englishman called Chris to ask if I had known anybody in the Royal Signals in Aldershot or Catterick . |
7 | She was in a fairly emotional state , in that she 'd known nothing about the wedding , wondered why she had n't been told , and demanded the time and location of the ceremony . |
8 | In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation . |
9 | Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance . |
10 | Barbara was wonderful : unlike some people who had known him as a child , she treated him as an adult . |
11 | I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman . |
12 | I bought him different clothes , and had his hair cut , but to me he looked just the same , and I lived in constant fear that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past . |
13 | It was an occasion filled with memories of a life time in the carpet business , highlighted with speeches by Ralph Ellis , Rod Turnbull , Steve Higgins and from customers who have known him for a long time . |
14 | If he does really well he can hope for a bonus of cross-party votes : never mind Patrick 's party label , we 've known him for a long time , we like him and he 's been very helpful . |
15 | He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform : ‘ We know the Germans , we 've known them for a long time . |
16 | We 've known them for a while , they 've been travelling to games solidly for years and are better fans on that score than I 've ever been . |
17 | advisers , we have known them through the period their firm through the period of time quite a number of years , and we can federate er er testify to their integrity . |
18 | Rimbaud would seem to be especially culpable since ‘ the deconstructions of semantic forms , the destabilizations of meaning , as we have known them during the past decades , derive from Rimbaud 's dissolution of the self ’ . |
19 | The Warden ( Vice-Chancellor ) Duff assured them that he was now not nearly so odd as he was when he had known him at the choir school of King 's College . |
20 | His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time . |
21 | Mr Koc said he had known nothing about the advertisement . |
22 | Mr Koc said he had known nothing about the advertisement . |
23 | He said that he had contacted Eyadema , who was away from Lomé , and that the president had assured him that he had known nothing about the attempt . |