Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] [been] known [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have occasionally been known to be kind to an old lady and I do n't kick every stray dog that comes across my path . ’ |
| 2 | In nearly 3,000 years with this company , I have never been known as a quitter . |
| 3 | In the days when it was briefly fashionable to be seen around with black people she had also been known as ‘ Missy ’ , and she 'd had a black lover then . |
| 4 | That was an intervention from her conscience but she had never been known for obstinacy in the past , and it was puzzling to account , really , for her awkward persistence about Grace . |
| 5 | they , they 've always been known for marvellous skin have n't they , the erm |
| 6 | It has even been known for an esteemed binder 's ticket to be transferred from a battered volume to a more handsome specimen with which he had no demonstrable connection . |
| 7 | It has even been known for a company to respond to a request for information six weeks after the initial query and then to complain that their product had been left out ! |
| 8 | It has long been known for its very good annual conferences , and for giving the Eleanor Farjeon Award . |
| 9 | Its colour used to range from yellowish or tawny to dark red , but the red was always preferred and the breed is now characteristically ‘ ruby red ’ — a dark but bright blood colour — and it has long been known as the Ruby of the West . |
| 10 | But it has long been known from careful palaeontological studies that even in the thick development in the Cotswolds , there is evidence of two major breaks and a period of folding in what otherwise was a very peaceful period in British geological history . |
| 11 | It has long been known in education circles that a clear correlation exists between social class background and examination success . |
| 12 | It has always been known as Kuwait , and erm the settlers of Kuwait are Arabs that came from Saudi Arabia and the southern part of Iraq and the southern parts of Iran , and they are settlers there . |
| 13 | He said ‘ Yes , Ernest , but he 'd always been known as Johnny Walker ’ . |
| 14 | It had previously been known as the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea ( CGDK ) . |
| 15 | It had never been known for them to stay less than three hours — not that Mum minded . |
| 16 | The authorities ' earlier identification of Lembarek Boumaraaf as the assassin [ see p. 38981 ] was endorsed ; the commission confirmed that he had previously been known to be an Islamist sympathizer , but rejected as improbable the suggestion that he had acted alone . |