Example sentences of "known him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For centuries civilised man thought poetry was the pinnacle he must reach for — ’ He caught himself suddenly and smiled for the first time Blanche had known him to , the embarrassed smile of a passionate devotee who suddenly discovers that everyone around him , whom he thought entranced by his obsession , was in fact sniggering behind his back . |
| 2 | She had watched him working delicately on the door , with all the attention to detail of the perfectionist , and had known him to be the sort who got what he wanted in life through hard work , never by taking the easy way out . |
| 3 | His friend Razumikhin , a truthful witness , has known him for eighteen months . |
| 4 | I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years . |
| 5 | ‘ Partly because I 've known him for years . |
| 6 | Having known him for many months in Vancouver , and relishing his word-pictures of Yukon characters like ‘ dangerous Dan McGrew ’ and ‘ the lady known as Lou ’ , I tried to see in Service 's eyes the modern Yukon nearly half a century after the gold rush . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've known him for years . |
| 8 | He was a very easy person to talk to , and long before they reached home she felt as if she had known him for years . |
| 9 | She said that she had got ‘ quite dependent ’ on Roger — I suppose she may have known him for about thirty-five years . |
| 10 | I had known him for a number of years . |
| 11 | Ask many who have known him for years , and they will say that he looks most comfortable at his annual visit to the Renaissance Weekend at Hilton Head Island over the New Year holiday . |
| 12 | If he does really well he can hope for a bonus of cross-party votes : never mind Patrick 's party label , we 've known him for a long time , we like him and he 's been very helpful . |
| 13 | She had known him for many years . |
| 14 | I 've known him for seven years . |
| 15 | I 've known him for years . |
| 16 | Known him for years , worked with him for years . |
| 17 | She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend . |
| 18 | It 's ridiculous — I 've only known him for a few weeks . |
| 19 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 20 | ‘ You 've only known him for a few months ! ’ |
| 21 | Jon is a ‘ New Age Traveller ’ and I have known him for two years . |
| 22 | You 've known him for only a few days , so that 's impossible . |
| 23 | Does the Minister accept that although some of us may have a disagreement with Bruce Millan , we have known him for many years and we know that he has always been , and is , punctilious in the exercise of his duties ? |
| 24 | I 've known him for about three years and we get on fine as friends . |
| 25 | It was an occasion filled with memories of a life time in the carpet business , highlighted with speeches by Ralph Ellis , Rod Turnbull , Steve Higgins and from customers who have known him for a long time . |
| 26 | I 've known him for years . ’ |
| 27 | I 've known him for years . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ You 've known him for years … we 've even spent Christmas with his family ! ’ |
| 29 | I 've known him for thirty years , nothing surprises me with him . |
| 30 | Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy . |