Example sentences of "[verb] known him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His friend Razumikhin , a truthful witness , has known him for eighteen months . |
| 2 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 3 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 4 | I 'd known him from the start of punk . |
| 5 | When I met Kirk and started to work with him , I sort of felt I 'd known him in some other life . |
| 6 | Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush . |
| 7 | In 1616 he presented William Bedell [ q.v. ] as rector of Horringer , Suffolk , probably having known him as preacher of St Mary 's , Bury St Edmunds ; later he was the means of Bedell 's promotion to an Irish bishopric . |
| 8 | Having known him in this country and having travelled around Israel with him , I know that he is tough and resilient . |
| 9 | ‘ Someone must have known him at Emmanuel , ’ added the Archdeacon . |
| 10 | She said that she had got ‘ quite dependent ’ on Roger — I suppose she may have known him for about thirty-five years . |
| 11 | Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy . |
| 12 | ‘ Partly because I 've known him for years . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've known him for years . |
| 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 | I 've known him for seven years . |
| 16 | I 've known him for years . |
| 17 | You 've known him for only a few days , so that 's impossible . |
| 18 | I 've known him for about three years and we get on fine as friends . |
| 19 | I 've known him for years . ’ |
| 20 | I 've known him for years . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You 've known him for years … we 've even spent Christmas with his family ! ’ |
| 22 | I 've known him for thirty years , nothing surprises me with him . |
| 23 | But even if we 've known him for many years , if we 're committed Christians , if we 've been followers of Jesus , there are occasions , there are times in our life when there is turmoil and there is unrest and if we allow him to se , to take control he is able to bring peace . |
| 24 | ‘ This is not the mood , these are not the spirits , in which I 've known him at home . |
| 25 | He was a very easy person to talk to , and long before they reached home she felt as if she had known him for years . |
| 26 | I had known him for a number of years . |
| 27 | She had known him for many years . |
| 28 | For centuries civilised man thought poetry was the pinnacle he must reach for — ’ He caught himself suddenly and smiled for the first time Blanche had known him to , the embarrassed smile of a passionate devotee who suddenly discovers that everyone around him , whom he thought entranced by his obsession , was in fact sniggering behind his back . |
| 29 | She had watched him working delicately on the door , with all the attention to detail of the perfectionist , and had known him to be the sort who got what he wanted in life through hard work , never by taking the easy way out . |
| 30 | 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 . |