Example sentences of "had know [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had known him for a number of years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Barbara was wonderful : unlike some people who had known him as a child , she treated him as an adult . |
| 5 | I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman . |
| 6 | I was privy to all their discussions on Hardy , as both had known him during the First World War . |
| 7 | But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time . |
| 10 | The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel . |
| 11 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Ruth 's conscience was troubled over Dick : not because of what they had done together — that had been wonderful and whenever she thought about it her body ached , her breasts tingled with longing to experience it again — but because she now knew , had known it from the day after he had brought her home , that he was not the man she wanted to marry . |
| 14 | She knew that now , had known it from the very first moment she had met him , however more comfortable it would have been to dismiss him as all brawn and no brain . |