Example sentences of "had known [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wrote freely as if they had known each other for years . |
| 2 | We had known each other for five years and were lovers for three , although we did n't live together . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Although Stevie and I had known each other for a while we had never been romantically involved . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I wondered when they had known each other and why the parents had never mentioned the affair to me ? |
| 7 | Some of that initial group of students and myself already had known each other for several years and knew each other 's families . |
| 8 | Indeed , she was sure he hardly reed she was alive , save that they had known each other for a long time . |
| 9 | The Regent and Lovat had known each other for a long time and shared affection and respect . |
| 10 | In fact , they had known each other for only two years , and had been lovers for most of that time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They had known each other for some considerable time and Frick trusted Schiller as much as he could trust any man . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The two had known each other more than twenty years , ever since their first fateful meeting at one of Old Man Ebert 's parties . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The two men had known each other since their school days . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Although they had known each other such a short time , she could sense that he cared about her . |
| 19 | ‘ They had known each other for some time before they married , though , had n't they ? ’ ventured Greg . |
| 20 | Never once in all the years they had known each other had Chambers gone further than a grudging admission that she had a certain flair for bookkeeping . |
| 21 | Now , I believe it to be true that before this tour — with one exception — none of you had known each other . |
| 22 | It occurred to me that if Stratton and Brown had known each other , so might their wives , perhaps . |
| 23 | ‘ But my father remarking that your mother had n't changed implies they had known each other in the past , and the painting seems to confirm that . |
| 24 | She had wondered about it briefly when it seemed certain that her mother and Michele 's father had known each other in the past . |
| 25 | They had known each other for so many years , since they had trained at the Royal Victoria , Belfast , that there were no secrets or illusions between them and she was able to tell Mick all her problems . |
| 26 | They had known each other since childhood , both the children of wealthy finance giants in Hong Kong . |
| 27 | He and Jordan had known each other for some years , had worked together side by side on a case of armed robbery , and been friends . |
| 28 | That was the only time I had known real fear . |
| 29 | She told the court that she had known eighteen-year-old Beno for three years , that in 1941 he had lost his power of speech when his lodgings suffered a direct hit , and that thereafter he had lived with the fantasy of becoming an air force officer . |
| 30 | They had known such hunger that even now Olga could not bring herself to throw away a single crumb and always ate whatever was left after a meal . |