Example sentences of "[pron] have known [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I had the result this afternoon , but I 've known for a few weeks , really . |
| 4 | Well , there was a time when it was a bolt from the blue , yes , I mean I 've known for a week or two , but we were delighted to receive it , er we do n't er , it is something that we said months ago that we supported the N H S Lottery because we do feel that money can be raised in this way painlessly towards particularly research and the sorts of things that the N H S on the whole has never really supported fully . |
| 5 | My mother was visiting someone who worked there whom she 'd known as a child . |
| 6 | She had known for a long time now . |
| 7 | It was impossible to do anything except admit something that she had known for a very long time . |
| 8 | Their mother , pale as the highland moon that she had known as a child , slept like a ghost embroidered on smoke . |
| 9 | A day or two before she was due to move she ran into a man she had known as a rather mysterious friend of Simon 's who used to turn up on leave now and again during the war . |
| 10 | You do n't expect that from people you have known for a long time . |
| 11 | Your friends usually are the one you have known for a long period of time , for example at work or at university . |
| 12 | We 've known for a long time that when you can talk on the run , the miles just fly by . |
| 13 | Mills was amoral and untrustworthy , but we 've known for a while now that he definitely worked for us . ’ |
| 14 | We 've known for a hundred years that there were Roman burials in this area . |
| 15 | We have known for a long time that there is no one right way to analyze a proposed capital investment . |
| 16 | We have known for a number of years that we with every other council in the land , are facing the government that does not believe in local government . |
| 17 | But it has such appeal that the casinos are reporting more feverish betting activity than they 've known in a long time . |
| 18 | He had known for a long time , but had refused to admit it to himself . |
| 19 | at last the confirmation of something he had known for a long time . |
| 20 | She reminded him of someone he had known as a young man . |
| 21 | Staring down at the girl , Pascoe saw in her the Martha he had known as a lad — the Martha he had loved and lost ; and while he stared , she opened her eyes and looked back up at him from the stinking bed of straw , and for a moment he felt a little stirring of fear . |
| 22 | Greg thought back on the Hilda he had known with a surge of affection : he could almost see her , chuckling over the typewriter as she composed the letter . |
| 23 | He had known from an early age that Jamel , as the older brother , would take over as leader of Zimbala once their father died . |
| 24 | It 's known as a hippo-bath-day on this one . |
| 25 | but this is a quite serious problem and er I do n't , I do n't apologise for it because this is what 's known as a donor card . |
| 26 | I then was sent a letter telling me that I 'd passed this exam , I then had what 's known as a medical to check that I was okay , there was no , I had no faults or injuries or health problems . |
| 27 | But the really scary place is what 's known as a crown court where you have to give evidence at crown court . |
| 28 | Yeah , the uni er the uniform branch turn up to investigate a crime and if they find fingerprints they will get what 's known as a scenes of crime officer to take the fingerprints off the wall , yeah ? |
| 29 | The thirty seven strong women 's could not agree among themselves on what 's known as a . |
| 30 | This is what 's known as a messy problem . |