Example sentences of "had know [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman . |
| 2 | I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War . |
| 3 | But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott . |
| 4 | His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time . |
| 5 | The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |