Example sentences of "known [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We 'd known each other a long time . |
| 32 | In fact , they had known each other for only two years , and had been lovers for most of that time . |
| 33 | Some wanted to maintain long-term friendships , having known each other from school or college . |
| 34 | In the case of the innocent parties they must have known each other for at least two years . |
| 35 | But we have known each other for five years , Alice , and I count myself your friend . |
| 36 | He put out his arms and caught her and held her , and they stood there on the gravel path in the grounds of Hilderbridge General Hospital , embraced as if they had long been lovers and had known each other with profound emotion and physical joy and had been parted only to meet again now , by chance , so felicitously . |
| 37 | They had known each other for some considerable time and Frick trusted Schiller as much as he could trust any man . |
| 38 | By the time Victoria 's Guider called her , they felt they 'd known each other for ages . |
| 39 | These two had known each other for well over thirty years , meeting first at school and then finding their paths crossing again and again as they shifted with their respective jobs , till finally they had both come back permanently to the town they started from . |
| 40 | ‘ We 've known each other a long time . |
| 41 | And that , in spite of the short time we have known each other , would not be true … ’ |
| 42 | The two had known each other more than twenty years , ever since their first fateful meeting at one of Old Man Ebert 's parties . |
| 43 | 1910 is the year in which the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , came together as a conscious group , although many of them had known each other earlier . |
| 44 | The two men had known each other since their school days . |
| 45 | ‘ I should explain that Matt and I were not lovers in the accepted sense ; we were friends — good friends , we 'd known each other from childhood so we had a lot in common . |
| 46 | We 've known each other for a long time . ’ |
| 47 | She did n't see Simone very often , but they had known each other from their schooldays and could pick up their friendship without the slightest difficulty . |
| 48 | We 've known each other a long time . |
| 49 | We 're growing familiar , like we 've known each other a long time . |
| 50 | Although they had known each other such a short time , she could sense that he cared about her . |
| 51 | ‘ I know we have n't known each other long , but you 've got under my skin like no other woman I 've ever met . |
| 52 | ‘ We 've known each other such a short time , but I feel I know you better than anyone . |
| 53 | ‘ They had known each other for some time before they married , though , had n't they ? ’ ventured Greg . |
| 54 | They have known each other since they were Division Three full-backs together , Taylor at Lincoln and Neal at Northampton . |
| 55 | They 'd clinked glasses and laughed and just cruised onto the dance floor as if they 'd known each other for years . |
| 56 | ‘ Yet in some ways we seem to have known each other forever . |
| 57 | We 've known each other since childhood , after all , so it would be convenient , and make good sense . |
| 58 | Never once in all the years they had known each other had Chambers gone further than a grudging admission that she had a certain flair for bookkeeping . |
| 59 | You understand this , English , we have known each other before . |
| 60 | You and I have known each other a long time . |