Example sentences of "[pron] have know they [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives . |
| 2 | I 've known them all a long time and I love 'em … |
| 3 | ‘ I 've known them all my life . |
| 4 | It 's a bad winter this one and I 've known them all here , man and lad . ’ |
| 5 | Jack Smith and his wife Maisie were pets who 'd known them all their lives . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've known them all , Billy , ’ the easy voice went on . |
| 7 | And so it was that she died alone in a mental hospital — as Eliot told Violet Schiff , one of the few who had known them both from their earliest days together , death could only have been a deliverance for her . |
| 8 | He had known them all his life , of course . |
| 9 | He had known them all , two whole generations , Wordsworth , Coleridge , de Quincey , Lamb ; Mme de Stael , Goethe , Schiller ; Carlyle , G. H. Lewes , Tennyson , Clough , Bagehot . |