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Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] known " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Well yes , but let me say that I gave up going to auditions well before I became well known through The History Man , on television .
2	This was n't the flawed , haggard Martinho I 'd latterly known but a clean , composed , god-like creature , the perfect Martinho of the peace-time Praça .
3	Erm well I did n't actually hear about it , I 'd already known that sch that such schemes existed .
4	I 'd never known him believe in anything before , so it was an amazing novelty to find him literally staking his life on the principle of absolute patriarchal authority .
5	I 'm afraid of dogs , but a rage the like of which I 'd never known before — and rarely since — took hold of me and I wanted to kill it , rip it limb from limb and tear at its throat with my teeth .
6	I was beginning to understand a lot I 'd never known about before , and for the first time that day Toby 's fatal unthinking words came back to me : " One day she 'll have a baby without ever having understood what love really means . "
7	Round about four o'clock he did a thing I 'd never known him do since I got there — he started to play his guitar .
8	I 'd never known Hilda well , my father had remarried after I had left home , and Susan was already sixteen .
9	I wished I 'd never known that
10	‘ I 'd always known Alan was mad about kids and I would n't deny him his chance to be a father .
11	‘ Not really , though I felt I 'd always known him .
12	In other words , I 'd always known the ingredients but had n't been able to put them together .
13	Unable to say , Because I felt as if I knew you , as if I 'd always known you ; because your face was as familiar to me as my own , she replied weakly , ‘ Sometimes a particular face stands out .
14	I 'd always known he was going to die , and so had he , really , but when it happened — it was a long time before I could really face it .
15	This was a foreign land , peopled not only by my superiors , for that applied to everyone I 'd ever known , from the hole in Mother woman through which I was expelled to the hole in the Mother earth by which I 'd be swallowed ; but by those who were superior to my early superiors ; probably the most superior peoples in the entire world .
16	The Maggot assumed I had already known that .
17	Before that I had never known that human beings could do such things to others , but after that I knew .
18	I had never known a woman by that name .
19	I had never known that world and I wondered how Olga felt , consigning me to it while she luxuriated in the house .
20	I realized I had never known any other world apart from Lowood or Gateshead .
21	She seldom sounded Yorkshire and I had never known her to make a joke .
22	I was spellbound : I had never known anybody who had been to such a faraway country .
23	Like most of my generation , I had never known a war , had never had fear rammed down my throat time and time again like the older generation .
24	I had never known low-ability children to question worksheets .
25	You came into my life bringing something I had never known before .
26	( 109 ) I had never known him ask a favour of this kind before .
27	There are numerous examples of the operative sense construed with to in British English as well : ( 112 ) I had never known him to pass the garden-gate before .
28	In truth there was no connection , for my original family name was Sillitoe , but , long before I was born , my father had adopted Breakspear as his stage name and I had really known no other .
29	I returned to London and the Prime Minister made clear what I had always known , that , had he not been stricken down , he would have made a speech on the Saturday at Blackpool saying that he was going on .
30	I had only known , positively though without details , that there was no help and no comfort forthcoming from the source , and that being so I shied away from any mental flashbacks which could only make me more unhappy and ashamed .