Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 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 .
10 He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform : ‘ We know the Germans , we 've known them for a long time .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 ’ .
14 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 .
15 His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time .
16 Mr Koc said he had known nothing about the advertisement .
17 Mr Koc said he had known nothing about the advertisement .
18 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 .
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