Example sentences of "[pers pn] have known it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just said it as if I 'd known it all along . |
| 2 | I 'd known it would happen , all along . |
| 3 | If I 'd known it was dinner , I 'd have changed into something more suitable . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If I 'd known it was going to be like this I 'd have gone ages ago ! ’ |
| 5 | How could I have known it ? |
| 6 | Goldberg I had known it would attack , he wrote , and sooner rather than later , the soil was ripe for the sprouting of concern , refugees , famine , the bomb , you only had to look at him , sentiment inevitable , despite my efforts , despite my scorn . |
| 7 | A fire was lit in the ‘ Front Room ’ ( the only time I had known it to be used ) . |
| 8 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I knew you were heading for Dublin , knew which hotel , because Donal had made a great point of telling me , and so , when the dinner I was at proved to be as boring and interminable as I had known it would , I left . |
| 11 | That such care may well characterize those activities which Scruton declares can not possess it is suggested by Andrew Lumsden 's appropriately passing remark on the casual , anonymous sexual encounter : ‘ for now I can only generalize : as I 've known it , men are never so peaceful , so unviolent ( physically and emotionally ) , so graceful with each other ( no matter how ‘ crude' ’ the act ) as they are — as we are — when content to take each other without the addition of names , or beds , or flats , or even of any clear impression of one-another 's looks ' ( Gay News , 235 ( Mar. 1982 ) , 17 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's always been that — I 've known it all my life — you 've never forgiven me for being a girl — that 's why you love Bri and you do n't love me — you wanted a boy — you always wanted a boy and all you got was a girl — all you got was me ! ’ |
| 13 | Since I did n't know Jackie in his racing years , I can only speak of his character as I 've known it since I975 , a period by which he had already become obsessed with driver safety and a real force in improving conditions for drivers . |
| 14 | Everybody is contributing and the atmosphere in the side is as good as I 've known it . ’ |
| 15 | She said , ‘ Oh , there 's happy I 've been with you two , there 's been life in this house , first time I 've known it ! ’ |
| 16 | I 've known it too . |
| 17 | I 've never taken it seriously before , because I 've known it could n't happen . |
| 18 | I 've known it happen to people who get excited easily . |
| 19 | That is , that is the least I 've known it |
| 20 | You 've only been there eighteen months while I 've known it all my life . |
| 21 | Oh I 've known it happen all over Caldmore . |
| 22 | If a man ca n't afford to go by automobile , and if he is content with eating and architecture , the world 's best ( as I have known it ) is afoot from Poitiers , from Brives , from Perigord or Limoges . |
| 23 | I have known it to be successfully treated with black sulphur powder mixed with water but prevention is better than cure . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't think I have known it this bad at any club in my career , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The incubation period is very long , quoted elsewhere as from ten days to three weeks , and I have known it as long as six weeks . |
| 26 | She 'd known it was a lie too . |
| 27 | Maybe she 'd known it all along . |
| 28 | Well , she 'd known it was n't going to be easy . |
| 29 | He 'd raised his arms in a gesture of possession , and , even though she 'd known it was all part of a beautifully sculpted drama , Shannon had felt a thrill deep inside , as though she too were part of the kingdom the Viking had taken for his own . |
| 30 | And , you see , she 'd known it , but it had been entered under another word , in her mind . |