Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have known " in BNC.
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| 1 | I really ca n't answer for David because in all the years that I 've known him , I always actually found him a rather cold person , even when I was 14 and he was 16 , even as boy and girlfriend . |
| 2 | I thought Alan Bowness , former director of the Tate , was a very good man , but I ca n't say that I 've known intimately very many of the museum people either in England or in the States . |
| 3 | There 's only one girl of my age that I 've known who 's on the cap . |
| 4 | Erm I can personally testify that the , the award winner that this year is somebody that I 've known for something like twenty six , twenty seven years . |
| 5 | He shrugged , then muttered , ‘ Only the fact that I 've known women to break their word . ’ |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I 'm here to learn about the situation on the ground beyond things that I 've known from previous trips and a long-term study of the issues . |
| 7 | And because he was sad , I put my hand on his shoulder , told him that I 'd known Billy to be a good little man ; funny , brave . |
| 8 | Through the years that I 'd known him , I 'd watched him grow in mind and body and now felt a twinge of pride that he had grown so well . |
| 9 | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives . |
| 10 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 11 | It was the longest afternoon that I had known and it was worse when I heard the sound of tea being prepared downstairs for this made me even more hungry . |
| 12 | It was the end of my time in the Caribbean , of the sheltered , warm , family life that I had known there , and the beginning of a new and exciting era . |
| 13 | Halema turned to the Sheikha who said that I had known her well . |
| 14 | His anger was unlike any other that I had known . |
| 15 | People that I have known through the years in the music business always knew where to find me and I never moved address . |
| 16 | It is so simple that I have known clever men misunderstand it completely , thinking that there must be more to it ! |
| 17 | Commenting on her selection , Sue Baring said : ‘ I 'm delighted to have been chosen to stand in a part of the country that I have known and loved for many years . |
| 18 | People do n't seem to look at other people , whereas in the towns and villages in the north that I have known the locals will bid you good day or smile as you go in and out of shops or even just crossing the street . |
| 19 | ‘ I certify that I have known Colour Serjeant William Nicholl late of the 8th ( or King 's ) Regiment for the space of ten years , six of which I belonged to the same Company and always considered him a man of most exemplary character . |
| 20 | But be the usual selves that I have known |
| 21 | Is it surprising that in respect of foreign affairs this is the most ill-informed House of Commons that I have known in my 30 years here ? |
| 22 | ‘ Not only do I find you quite extraordinarily beautiful , but I also feel that I have known you all my life . |
| 23 | And yet , when I came to know my associates , a far greater intimacy and sense of comradeship developed than I had known with any but my closest friends at school or university . |
| 24 | It gave her a shock to see Nicholas there , although she had known it was likely . |
| 25 | The hard bench under her was n't conducive to restful slumber either , although she had known worse beds . |
| 26 | Their mother , pale as the highland moon that she had known as a child , slept like a ghost embroidered on smoke . |
| 27 | This she protested against very strongly , on the ground that she had known many missed and some murdered who essayed to travel round that way in the night ; not that she thought such dark deeds as robbery would be perpetrated by any of the islanders , ‘ But you see , sir , the island is very near the sea , and all sorts of men are sailing round about , an ’ when they 've spent all their own earnings on drink , it 's hard to know what they 'll no' do to try and get more . ’ |
| 28 | She said that she knew about it and that she had known for quite a while . |
| 29 | She told the court that she had known eighteen-year-old Beno for three years , that in 1941 he had lost his power of speech when his lodgings suffered a direct hit , and that thereafter he had lived with the fantasy of becoming an air force officer . |
| 30 | Maxine told me that she had known all the time that she was her twentieth-century self and that she was sitting in a comfortable chair in my consulting room . |