Example sentences of "have know [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform : ‘ We know the Germans , we 've known them for a long time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman . |
| 8 | I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War . |
| 9 | But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott . |
| 10 | His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time . |
| 11 | The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Although most Gazans — 70% of whom are under 35 — have known nothing but the Israeli occupation that started in 1967 , the young are fired with the idea of resistance , however futile . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |