Example sentences of "known [pers pn] for years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought you 'd known them for years . |
| 2 | As a matter of fact the Tates are friends ; after all I 've known them for years . ’ |
| 3 | I 've known you for years . |
| 4 | I do n't know why , but I feel I 've known you for years . ’ |
| 5 | We have known her for years . ’ |
| 6 | Giancarlo took her arm courteously as if he had known her for years , and , followed by his guests , led her out of the sun on the terrace and into the shade at the side of the house . |
| 7 | ‘ Partly because I 've known him for years . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've known him for years . |
| 9 | He was a very easy person to talk to , and long before they reached home she felt as if she had known him for years . |
| 10 | Ask many who have known him for years , and they will say that he looks most comfortable at his annual visit to the Renaissance Weekend at Hilton Head Island over the New Year holiday . |
| 11 | I 've known him for years . |
| 12 | Known him for years , worked with him for years . |
| 13 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 14 | I 've known him for years . ’ |
| 15 | I 've known him for years . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 've known him for years … we 've even spent Christmas with his family ! ’ |
| 17 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |