Example sentences of "[vb past] known [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd known each other a long time . |
| 2 | By the time Victoria 's Guider called her , they felt they 'd known each other for ages . |
| 3 | ‘ I should explain that Matt and I were not lovers in the accepted sense ; we were friends — good friends , we 'd known each other from childhood so we had a lot in common . |
| 4 | They 'd clinked glasses and laughed and just cruised onto the dance floor as if they 'd known each other for years . |
| 5 | And now I had a lovely fellow I 'd grown up with in the same village , the same sort of background , we 'd known each other since we were eleven , twelve , |
| 6 | In fact , she 'd known little peace at all . |
| 7 | Changi Jail was still there , though , together with the old sergeants ' mess he 'd known 40 years earlier . |
| 8 | well if I 'd known enough company she said , I 'd have been at home with me feet up |
| 9 | If I 'd known this cake were gon na go so quick I would n't of fro froze that other one . |
| 10 | Could n't she see that this was not the same Silas she 'd known three years ago ? |
| 11 | When the number of new writerships , cadetships and surgeoncies which would be required became known each year , the total was divided as evenly as possible into thirty shares . |
| 12 | When the latest decision became known last night , Peter said that it was encouraging for Mansell , the Ferrari lawyer pointing out that this was the first time that the FIA had not confirmed a decision . |
| 13 | They wrote freely as if they had known each other for years . |
| 14 | We had known each other for five years and were lovers for three , although we did n't live together . |
| 15 | From the moment of his arrival at Carewscourt , Durkin adopted an over-familiar attitude towards Carew , calling him Alec , trying to give the impression that they had known each other for years . |
| 16 | ‘ Although Stevie and I had known each other for a while we had never been romantically involved . |
| 17 | Julian Hayman was the same age as Quinn and they had known each other when Quinn lived in London and worked for the underwriting firm specializing in protection and hostage release . |
| 18 | I wondered when they had known each other and why the parents had never mentioned the affair to me ? |
| 19 | Some of that initial group of students and myself already had known each other for several years and knew each other 's families . |
| 20 | Indeed , she was sure he hardly reed she was alive , save that they had known each other for a long time . |
| 21 | The Regent and Lovat had known each other for a long time and shared affection and respect . |
| 22 | In fact , they had known each other for only two years , and had been lovers for most of that time . |
| 23 | He put out his arms and caught her and held her , and they stood there on the gravel path in the grounds of Hilderbridge General Hospital , embraced as if they had long been lovers and had known each other with profound emotion and physical joy and had been parted only to meet again now , by chance , so felicitously . |
| 24 | They had known each other for some considerable time and Frick trusted Schiller as much as he could trust any man . |
| 25 | These two had known each other for well over thirty years , meeting first at school and then finding their paths crossing again and again as they shifted with their respective jobs , till finally they had both come back permanently to the town they started from . |
| 26 | The two had known each other more than twenty years , ever since their first fateful meeting at one of Old Man Ebert 's parties . |
| 27 | 1910 is the year in which the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , came together as a conscious group , although many of them had known each other earlier . |
| 28 | The two men had known each other since their school days . |
| 29 | She did n't see Simone very often , but they had known each other from their schooldays and could pick up their friendship without the slightest difficulty . |
| 30 | Although they had known each other such a short time , she could sense that he cared about her . |