Example sentences of "known [pers pn] [prep] a [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 I suppose that because she had n't really known me from an early age , she made a tremendous effort to get to know me later .
4 I could n't remember her ever having been any different , and even Lili could n't have known her as a young woman , for Syl 's mother was old enough to have been his grandmother .
5 His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time .
6 Sir James Barrie would have known him for a Lost Boy .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 I went to Dubai and called on several prominent figures who had known him as a local businessman .
10 But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott .
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 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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