Example sentences of "had known [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They , of course , had known no other type of cockpit . |
| 2 | Fergus had not been aware of the precise moment when the Lad of the Skins drew his soul from his body with the Knife of Light , but he had known a great coldness , and a sense of desolation , and an abandonment so complete that it had overwhelmed him , and for a time he had scarcely been aware of what was happening . |
| 3 | I had known a few evenings here when it was chilly and wet — the nights were generally cold — but now it was pleasant ; warm as a good summer evening in Scotland . |
| 4 | The Karen I had known a few months earlier , a simple , straightforward creature with healthy appetites , had been metamorphosed by my spells into a raving obsessive who regarded the spawning of offspring not as a lowest-common-denominator activity like excretion but as a moral and creative achievement on a par with , say , painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling . |
| 5 | I was surprised to find that Mr Summerfield had known the first Station Master of Bishop 's Castle , Elisha Edwin Owen — it was a thrill to speak to someone who had received first-hand memories of the start of the Railway . |
| 6 | The first defendant had known the deceased for some seven years and said in evidence that for the 3 or 3½ years before the deceased 's death he had been looking after the deceased . |
| 7 | Julius stood and watched her go , and wondered what else she would have said to him if she had known the complete truth ; that he had known from the very start exactly who had sent that poison pen letter to her . |
| 8 | Twenty years before he had known the draughtless heat of temporary offices in Kuala Lumpur and Nairobi , but God , you lost the habit of it . |
| 9 | He had known the poor child was not robust : this was the basis on which he had been invited to treat , through an English lady , an Oxford acquaintance , then at Nice , who happened to know both his needs and those of the amiable American family looking out for something really superior in the way of a resident tutor ( 11 ) . |
| 10 | You see , none of us had known the poor girl , and we did not want to feel sad on Christmas Eve . |
| 11 | He added : ‘ If somebody had known the bloody rules , they could have told us straight away and it would have been no problem at all . |
| 12 | The Shah 's confusion was evident in an interview he gave to one of the journalists whom he had known the longest , Clare Hollingworth of the Daily Telegraph of London . |
| 13 | He told me he had been a sailor , had known the bitter odour of disease and been a casualty in the wars of the elements , but nothing had been as dire as the loss of his woman to another . |
| 14 | He had known the Christian challenge as a younger man , but had fallen away from it . |
| 15 | ‘ I can not say that if Mrs. O'Brien had known the full and true effect of her commitment under the charge , she would instantly and inevitably have refused to execute it . |
| 16 | He said that , although the actual loss was ‘ necessarily a matter of surmise , ’ the principle was that the plaintiff should be compensated for the difference between the price he would probably have got if he had known the full facts and the actual sale price . |
| 17 | Charles had known the full implications of the situation for only twenty-four hours , but he had a sick feeling that time was running out . |
| 18 | True enough , Jaq had known the secret essence of the matter ever since his application to the Officio Assassinorum was fulfilled — his request for an Assassin with previous experience of a Genestealer-infested world , and one who could pose as a sophisticated mistress . |