Example sentences of "i [vb base] known [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've known Arnie for ages . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've known Eric since I was 20 and we have been married for nearly six years . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've known Nora since she was so high , ’ said Updike . |
| 4 | I 've known loads of people who who are working full time , and they come home Friday and the go out Friday night , stand up at the bar , and drink twenty pints or whatever , ten pints . |
| 5 | I 've known women to choose something highbrow to impress me — and sit in an agony of boredom all the way through . |
| 6 | He shrugged , then muttered , ‘ Only the fact that I 've known women to break their word . ’ |
| 7 | But , since you 're so interested , I 've known Nicole for a long time . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've known Geoffrey since he was at prep school . |
| 9 | ‘ My dear , I 've known Gilbert Racy for thirty years . |
| 10 | I 've known teachers go on to other posts in the private sector without any trouble after far worse things than you will ever be accused of . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh no , I 've known Paul since 1984 when he first appeared on the LA scene in an excellent band called Black Sheep . |
| 12 | Well I 've known gipies ever since I was a young lad many years ago . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've known Rohan a long time , but I 've never seen him this way with a woman before , or with such immediacy . |
| 14 | And anyway , ’ said Marie , ‘ I 've known Gazzer all my life . ’ |
| 15 | She said , ’ — and here Simon mimicked Marie 's voice , exaggerating her slow , hesitant way of speaking — ‘ she said : ‘ I 've known Gazzer all my life … . ’ |
| 16 | I 've known horses I could read like a book . |
| 17 | Oh that was messy , you 're telling me was messy , I 've known cups of tea , you put a cup of tea on there the other cup of tea was there , well we never used to have saucers could n't afford them , that 'd be there a mug of tea and that 'd move like that off the table that 'd come cos the dredger was shaking so much . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've known Buff Orpingtons whom I thought had a spark . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've known Francisco for years — I met him the first year I came here , when Monte Samana was brand new . ’ |
| 20 | West Bromwich boss Ardiles , an enthusiastic 15-handicap golfer , said : ‘ I 've known Vicente for a long time . |
| 21 | I 've known Kate since she was a child , and about a month ago I went to see her . |
| 22 | I 've known Heather for quite a while — a sort of on-and-off relationship , I suppose . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've known Conrad Ackroyd for some years . |
| 24 | I mean I 've known lorries to go down and get out the human manure |
| 25 | ‘ I 've known Billy for many years . |
| 26 | We all knew each other anyway — I 've known Si the bass player and Chris the drummer for years — but it was one of those places where everyone was going at the time , where you could meet other musicians and bounce some ideas around . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've known Carrie Bradley fer years . |
| 28 | Forty years I 've known Gloria . |
| 29 | I 've known Becky for a long time and I never thought she 'd go public with what is a private afffair … it may in part be naivity … but I think some of it was vengence . |
| 30 | I 've known Newley for quite a while now . |