Example sentences of "had known [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 " . |
| 2 | She had never-quite-known what Dorothy Tuckey , and Magill and Tatham had known of the real loneliness of the hunted . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Certainly , however , if the owners had known of the secret intention , they would not have consented . |
| 5 | She had known for a long time now . |
| 6 | He had known for a long time , but had refused to admit it to himself . |
| 7 | at last the confirmation of something he had known for a long time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Whitely was all he knew and had known for the last sixteen years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But , of course , she had known about the sadistic part . |
| 13 | She reminded him of someone he had known as a young man . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As a military exercise , however , many gaps in British naval and air provision had been shown up ; but it was a spectacular triumph , the first that Britain had known since the 1950s . |
| 17 | And then the moment had passed , and tall and tanned and fit in the sunshine she had walked down the green street with the gardens either side of her , and had known by an instinctive glance that her mother still lived there , that nothing had changed . |
| 18 | Turakina had known from the first how he would react , but she had pretended resistance for a day and a night before giving her consent . |
| 19 | Julius stood and watched her go , and wondered what else she would have said to him if she had known the complete truth ; that he had known from the very start exactly who had sent that poison pen letter to her . |
| 20 | He had known from an early age that Jamel , as the older brother , would take over as leader of Zimbala once their father died . |