Example sentences of "[verb] known [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy . |
2 | I could n't remember her ever having been any different , and even Lili could n't have known her as a young woman , for Syl 's mother was old enough to have been his grandmother . |
3 | It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time . |
4 | Maxim would have known it for a British government office no matter where in the world he met it : small neon-lit with a hodge-podge of cheap furniture and painted to look scruffy even when it was surgically dean . |
5 | He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform : ‘ We know the Germans , we 've known them for a long time . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman . |
8 | I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War . |
9 | But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott . |
10 | His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time . |
11 | The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel . |
12 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
13 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Rimbaud would seem to be especially culpable since ‘ the deconstructions of semantic forms , the destabilizations of meaning , as we have known them during the past decades , derive from Rimbaud 's dissolution of the self ’ . |