Example sentences of "known [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform : ‘ We know the Germans , we 've known them for a long time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel . |
| 4 | I could n't remember her ever having been any different , and even Lili could n't have known her as a young woman , for Syl 's mother was old enough to have been his grandmother . |
| 5 | His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time . |
| 6 | I had known him for a number of years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend . |
| 9 | It 's ridiculous — I 've only known him for a few weeks . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've only known him for a few months ! ’ |
| 11 | It was an occasion filled with memories of a life time in the carpet business , highlighted with speeches by Ralph Ellis , Rod Turnbull , Steve Higgins and from customers who have known him for a long time . |
| 12 | Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy . |
| 13 | Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance . |
| 14 | Barbara was wonderful : unlike some people who had known him as a child , she treated him as an adult . |
| 15 | I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman . |
| 16 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 17 | But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott . |
| 18 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Maxim would have known it for a British government office no matter where in the world he met it : small neon-lit with a hodge-podge of cheap furniture and painted to look scruffy even when it was surgically dean . |
| 21 | No one — absolutely no one — had seen a man called Kennedy arrive , or known anything about a man with that name . |