Example sentences of "[pers pn] have know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was serious about acting in those days , but the hungrier I got the more my resolution sagged , until a guy I 'd known at college talked me into a job with the Defense Department . ’ |
| 2 | He worked in Whitehall , that 's all I 'd known at the time . |
| 3 | if I 'd known about that that would of great ! |
| 4 | How much better life would have been if I 'd known about that or used it ? |
| 5 | Sometimes they come back from their haunts very cross , and say , " If only I 'd known about that , " or " Why did n't I think of that ? |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , I wish I 'd known about Elise and Rob . ’ |
| 7 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 8 | Rehearsals were due to begin for myself and my accompanist/narrator John Gould , a shy , quirky , gifted musician whom I 'd known for almost twenty years . |
| 9 | My problems were : I had a body in the bath right behind me , a girl I 'd known for less than twenty-four hours in a bed in the next room , I was staying in the house of somebody I 'd never met who was currently at a family wedding somewhere north of Karachi and somewhere down the yellow brick road I had to call the cops . |
| 10 | I wish I 'd known in advance . |
| 11 | ‘ If I 'd known in time , I would n't have . |
| 12 | Cut adrift from nearly everything I 'd known before seven , I turned inward and invented story games to play alone . |
| 13 | How else could I have known about it unless I was your son ? |
| 14 | Crosland was replaced as Environment Secretary by Peter Shore , a much less exuberant and extrovert character , but a solid , steady man whom I had known over the years and had first met when he was the Secretary of an ad hoc committee formed by the Labour Party — with a few outside ‘ experts ’ such as Dennis Lloyd and myself — to produce a rental policy . |
| 15 | And yet , when I came to know my associates , a far greater intimacy and sense of comradeship developed than I had known with any but my closest friends at school or university . |
| 16 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 17 | A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years . |
| 18 | Ted Power , a fine collector , whom I had known for years and who had seen odd paintings in mixed shows wanted to buy something . |
| 19 | Though tragically killed in a recent motorbike accident , Madra was an undisputed maestro of the art , as well as an easy and informative friend whom I had known for some time , so it was a shock to witness the epic genius which came through him , and the transformation which both he and his audience underwent in that open village square the first time I saw him perform . |
| 20 | on long , summer evenings ) and quite another to go up to a girl , even one I had known for years and actually do such a thing . |
| 21 | Because I had known of it . |
| 22 | Thin husks I had known as men , |
| 23 | I told her of the storms I had known as a child in America , of the sea lifting the paving stones in Penzance , of the ice storms in New England where each twig , each leaf is coated in ice , and of how , when the sun shines , it is as though the world were crystallised , as though nature were encapsulated in a diamond . |
| 24 | This man , who was soon joined by three friends , reminded me of the woozily friendly Galway people I had known in Brighton in the late sixties and early seventies . |
| 25 | Near the bus and railway station stood a Great Southern Hotel , not too different from the luxurious mansion I had known in Killarney . |
| 26 | Mr. Reilly remarked of Mr William Paul , a leading member of the society , that he ‘ exceeded anyone I had known in his spirit and power in prayer ; and oh , how rich and copious were his quotations from scripture and our hymns ’ . |
| 27 | During holidays at The Milebrook I found once again the freedom I had known in Abyssinia , but now for only three months in the year . |
| 28 | Yeah , but thing is I mean , you know , there 's a lot of kids out there , I mean I 've know with , sort of , Lee 's friend you know , okay , with us I mean with Lee o okay we do n't I 've often said to him , why do n't you get a Saturday job ? |
| 29 | They 're not doing this or that but in lots of cases , and I 've known of lots of cases where children just do n't want to know ! |
| 30 | ‘ I 've known of chemical conversions to ideology . ’ |