Example sentences of "have known [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jason Donovan has known for a long time that The Face is not rich , and we have repeatedly offered to apologise unreservedly for the article , ’ the statement added . |
| 2 | ‘ Jason Donovan has known for a long time that The Face is not rich , and we have repeatedly offered to apologise unreservedly for the article , ’ the statement added . |
| 3 | The art ( therapy ? ) of Reflexology is founded on the principle that massaging the feet can affect the health of other parts of the body , a fact which acupuncture has known for a long time . |
| 4 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 5 | There was no [ overt ] Dionysiac worship among the Greeks at this time ; and though they must have known of the near-Eastern festivals , the savage excesses of those cults were totally alien to them , at least on a conscious level , and were rejected uncompromisingly . |
| 6 | Harvard Securities were paid to make a market in Towerbell Records , but as Tom Wilmot has pointed out , the dealer who sent that letter would not have known of the pending disaster since dealers were forbidden access to the firm 's corporate finance department by the so-called " Chinese walls " However Wilmot has sometimes blamed his dealers for breaching dealing regulations . |
| 7 | Nor would we have known about the overnight accommodation in a converted farm , now a countryside centre , in the centrepiece 1,000-acre site Sirhowy Valley Country Park . |
| 8 | Rupert had not specified what the ‘ friends ’ consisted of , so nobody could have known about the anthropological colleague and his wife and their children aged seven , five , and three , or pictured Rupert going to church alone on Christmas morning , helping to wash up after the adequate but plain Christmas dinner , spending the evening talking shop , and retiring early to his hard uncomfortable bed . |
| 9 | He should have known from the first that the chasm which lay between them would not be so easy to cross . |
| 10 | Gregory of Tours seems not to have known about the Trojan origin of the Franks , but he did know an undeveloped version of their migration legend . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) The said duty is owed if the landlord knows ( whether as the result of being notified by the tenant or otherwise ) or if he ought in all the circumstances to have known of the relevant defect . |
| 12 | We 've known for a hundred years that there were Roman burials in this area . |
| 13 | We 've known for a long time that when you can talk on the run , the miles just fly by . |
| 14 | I had the result this afternoon , but I 've known for a few weeks , really . |
| 15 | But it has such appeal that the casinos are reporting more feverish betting activity than they 've known in a long time . |
| 16 | Since his first meeting with Wagner in 1868 he had known of the latter 's conviction that Schopenhauer was " the only philosopher who had understood the essence of music " . |
| 17 | She had never-quite-known what Dorothy Tuckey , and Magill and Tatham had known of the real loneliness of the hunted . |
| 18 | However , Rico was himself arrested on Dec. 10 for allegedly inciting public disorder , by claiming in the press that there were major problems still unresolved in the Army , that he had known of the intended rebellion , and that he had made a mistake in not preventing it . |
| 19 | Certainly , however , if the owners had known of the secret intention , they would not have consented . |
| 20 | She had known for a long time now . |
| 21 | He had known for a long time , but had refused to admit it to himself . |
| 22 | at last the confirmation of something he had known for a long time . |
| 23 | Michael Sibele had known for the last two days why the gang of workmen was busy outside the main gates : repairing a burst mains pipe . |
| 24 | Whitely was all he knew and had known for the last sixteen years . |
| 25 | But not even Michael had known about the other sum — smaller , but just as regular — that Holdfast had dourly diverted to the fighters on his own side of the great divide . |
| 26 | Bird Jr denied Colombian suggestions that he had known about the 1989 shipment , but he admitted having had discussions with a former Israeli army officer who had plans to establish a business in Antigua . |
| 27 | But , of course , she had known about the sadistic part . |
| 28 | She reminded him of someone he had known as a young man . |
| 29 | Above all , he established a rapport between himself and the leading noblemen , his companions in arms , which formed the basis of the longest period of political stability the country had known since the early years of Edward I. These achievements , however , had their price . |
| 30 | By 1970 , with the passing of the old empire , these were all over , and only the totally unexpected war with Argentina over the Falklands in 1982 interrupted what was one of the longest periods of unbroken peace that Britain had known since the later middle ages . |