Example sentences of "had known him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Warden ( Vice-Chancellor ) Duff assured them that he was now not nearly so odd as he was when he had known him at the choir school of King 's College . |
| 2 | I think I just put up with it because he behaved in such extraordinary ways to me in the time I had known him , of showing affection at all ? |
| 3 | She had known him since he was a very small five-year-old , perched like a mosquito on one of the placid beginners ' ponies , so she told the class to carry on walking their ponies while she came to him . |
| 4 | You must have known people who remembered Bruckner — Paumgartner 's father had known him , Schalk … |
| 5 | I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War . |
| 6 | Whoever had killed Don Roberto had known him or had a first-rate introduction because there were no signs of violence other than the knife wound and Don Roberto had given his staff time off . |
| 7 | He neither claimed to know the butler 's name , nor anyone who had known him , but he would always insist the event occurred just as he told it . |
| 8 | The aunt ( actually great-aunt ) who had known him from his appearance was Sarah , widow of old William Justavus Cranko , and the companion she sent to fetch him was Miemie Dempers , William 's sister . |
| 9 | Yet it never occurred to John , as his mother aged , that she might be in need of any help , until a visitor from Johannesburg , who had known him as a boy , told him that she was hard up , after which lie made her an allowance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had known him less than a week , yet it seemed natural to turn to him . |
| 12 | Another friend who had known him since his teens said : ‘ He was different when he came out , he scared people . |
| 13 | I had known him for a number of years . |
| 14 | She had known him then and she knew his reputation now . |
| 15 | Well , I had known him on and off for about nine years , and my attitude was resentful — you know , I 'm not going to be another notch in his gun belt , and all that , was going on . |
| 16 | But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott . |
| 17 | Barbara was wonderful : unlike some people who had known him as a child , she treated him as an adult . |
| 18 | An idealist all the days I had known him , we had been very close . |
| 19 | Those who had known him from that earlier period , however , were less than enthusiastic about his elevation . |
| 20 | His affection and solicitude for Dobrée , as for other old friends like Herbert Read , Philip Mairet and Frank Morley , is very touching , and he seemed now almost a grandpaterfamilias for the men who had known him so well . |
| 21 | She had known him for many years . |
| 22 | In fact , in all the time she had known him , she had never heard him swear before . |
| 23 | I bought him different clothes , and had his hair cut , but to me he looked just the same , and I lived in constant fear that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past . |
| 24 | If he had known him … . |
| 25 | That must be disturbing him greatly ; for , after all , though the Rabbi was not her blood relation and she had known him only since her marriage , even for her it was an intolerable wrench . |
| 26 | In all the years he had known him he had not heard of one instance of Tolonen using his position for his own advantage . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ I wish you had known him , Anne , and he 'd known you , ’ John said . |
| 29 | So Maureen had known him all that time . |
| 30 | After years of scrutinising Jesus of Nazareth , of listening to his teaching , of watching his character , of observing his miracles , after witnessing that shameful death and experiencing that glorious resurrection , the men who had known him best were sure of it . |