Example sentences of "have know [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a generation which has known nothing but Thatcherism , passions are indeed fired by the idea of a pragmatic alternative to Conservative rule . |
| 2 | The bishops ' letter has shown the possibility of open dissent to a population that since independence has known nothing but calm . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought you 'd known them for years . |
| 5 | In 1616 he presented William Bedell [ q.v. ] as rector of Horringer , Suffolk , probably having known him as preacher of St Mary 's , Bury St Edmunds ; later he was the means of Bedell 's promotion to an Irish bishopric . |
| 6 | He says being a little forgiving I could praps forgive them a little for us on the 1952 test , the first , but I ca n't forgive them for what they did to these other lads on the later tests , they must have known something from Nagasaki , Hiroshima and Bikini atoll tests . |
| 7 | ‘ Someone must have known him at Emmanuel , ’ added the Archdeacon . |
| 8 | How could she have known anything about Ryan ? ’ |
| 9 | You 've known me for yonks . ’ |
| 10 | As a matter of fact the Tates are friends ; after all I 've known them for years . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Partly because I 've known him for years . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've known him for years . |
| 13 | I 've known him for years . |
| 14 | I 've known him for years . ’ |
| 15 | I 've known him for years . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 've known him for years … we 've even spent Christmas with his family ! ’ |
| 17 | ‘ This is not the mood , these are not the spirits , in which I 've known him at home . |
| 18 | You 're forgetting I 've known you since childhood , Doreen — ’ He broke off as Ling appeared at the door . |
| 19 | I 've known you for years . |
| 20 | I do n't know why , but I feel I 've known you for years . ’ |
| 21 | I 've known you In Love , but never quite like this . |
| 22 | Charles , by contrast , had known nothing but restriction and discipline . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The appointment was all the more surprising within the Colonial Service where , contrary to common precedent , Macpherson had never been tried out as ‘ officer administering the government ’ ( OAG ) ; but those who had known him in Lagos a decade earlier at once recognized that they were getting the outstanding man of the Service . |
| 25 | It had to be a child , Coffin thought , and had n't Mrs Foster been Gilly Slee when he had known her at Hook Road School ? |
| 26 | Giancarlo took her arm courteously as if he had known her for years , and , followed by his guests , led her out of the sun on the terrace and into the shade at the side of the house . |
| 27 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 28 | His parents had known it as Andrássy after the Count who had been prime minister when that part of Pest was laid out . |
| 29 | It was true , it was true , it was true : secretly , instinctively , she had known it for weeks . |
| 30 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |