Example sentences of "known [pron] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've known them for a while , they 've been travelling to games solidly for years and are better fans on that score than I 've ever been . |
| 2 | I had known him for a number of years . |
| 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 | Ever since we 'd been at university together , I 'd known him as a bit of a shower freak , staying in there for ages . |
| 6 | No one — absolutely no one — had seen a man called Kennedy arrive , or known anything about a man with that name . |