Example sentences of "[pron] have [adv] known " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Erm well I did n't actually hear about it , I 'd already known that sch that such schemes existed . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . " |
6 | 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 . |
7 | I 'd never known Hilda well , my father had remarried after I had left home , and Susan was already sixteen . |
8 | I wished I 'd never known that |
9 | ‘ I 'd always known Alan was mad about kids and I would n't deny him his chance to be a father . |
10 | ‘ Not really , though I felt I 'd always known him . |
11 | In other words , I 'd always known the ingredients but had n't been able to put them together . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | The Maggot assumed I had already known that . |
16 | Before that I had never known that human beings could do such things to others , but after that I knew . |
17 | I had never known a woman by that name . |
18 | I had never known that world and I wondered how Olga felt , consigning me to it while she luxuriated in the house . |
19 | I realized I had never known any other world apart from Lowood or Gateshead . |
20 | She seldom sounded Yorkshire and I had never known her to make a joke . |
21 | I was spellbound : I had never known anybody who had been to such a faraway country . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | I had never known low-ability children to question worksheets . |
24 | You came into my life bringing something I had never known before . |
25 | ( 109 ) I had never known him ask a favour of this kind before . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | ‘ If I had only known — if only Isabelle could have forced herself to tell me . ’ |