Example sentences of "known [pron] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He then delivered a heavy hint of the need for reform : ‘ We know the Germans , we 've known them for a long time .
2 The owner had known me for a long time and asked me if I could run a brothel .
3 In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation .
4 His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time .
5 Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy .
6 If he does really well he can hope for a bonus of cross-party votes : never mind Patrick 's party label , we 've known him for a long time , we like him and he 's been very helpful .
7 It was an occasion filled with memories of a life time in the carpet business , highlighted with speeches by Ralph Ellis , Rod Turnbull , Steve Higgins and from customers who have known him for a long time .
8 She laughed silently at herself ; she had only known him for a few hours , and here she was , assessing his character as if he were an old and true friend .
9 It 's ridiculous — I 've only known him for a few weeks .
10 ‘ You 've only known him for a few months ! ’
11 I am certainly going to miss him , I have only really known him for the past seven days , but it seems like years .
12 I felt that I had known it for a long time .
13 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 .
14 Maxim would have known it for a British government office no matter where in the world he met it : small neon-lit with a hodge-podge of cheap furniture and painted to look scruffy even when it was surgically dean .
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