Example sentences of "[vb past] known [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd known Nick for years , meeting him when she 'd come to London to visit her cousin Mark Bristow , Sally 's son . |
| 2 | He had never been taken in , not really , not inside , but he 'd known moments of doubt , so his delight and relief were unbounded now he found that his instincts had been right all along ! |
| 3 | Where , I gather , Dhani put him in a Buddhist monastery and nursed him back to health — he 'd known Dhani at school and Cambridge . |
| 4 | She 'd known Candy for too long to have any hope that she would escape without an inquisition . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Janet Bush said : ‘ I 'd known Paula for many years . |
| 7 | She told the court : ‘ I 'd known Paula for many years . |
| 8 | Janet Bush said : ‘ I 'd known Paula for many years . |
| 9 | She told the court : ‘ I 'd known Paula for many years . |
| 10 | Over 200 people attended , many of whom had known Harry as their warden . |
| 11 | She had known Nancy for years , of course . |
| 12 | I had known Willie since childhood days at Nairn , Geoffrey I had come to know later ; and while I greatly admired them both , and still do , I found this closing of establishment ranks deeply shocking . |
| 13 | After the appeal in Air Mail , Mrs Marsden had calls from men who had known members of the crew . |
| 14 | Sami 's cousin and business associate , Jamal Hamadan , had known Younis for six years . |
| 15 | The apostles , the folk who had known Jesus in the old days in Galilee , Stephen , Paul ; all are ‘ witnesses of these things ; and so is the Holy Spirit whom God had given to those who obey him ’ ( Acts 5:32 ) . |
| 16 | It would have seemed strange to those who had known Nigel in his early days as a conscientious objector to find him cheering the prime minister through the Falklands War . |
| 17 | She had known William as a boy and as an adolescent ; she was beginning to know him as an adult and as a lover ; but between the two blocks of knowledge was a ten-year gap . |
| 18 | Paul McBride , for Todd , 32 , of Hogarth Road , London , said that he had known Sim for a number of years and out of loyalty wanted to help him . |
| 19 | The three men , two of whom were subsequently found to have been carrying replica guns , were not thought to be IRA members but had known records of delinquency . |
| 20 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 21 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |
| 22 | Ironically , in the midst of the education controversy of 1902 , the Prime Minister , A. J. Balfour , who had known Thomas at Cambridge , singled him out amongst his opponents as ‘ a gentleman aiming at fairness ’ . |
| 23 | He told the court that he had known Paula for more than 25 years and married her to Eddie at his church in Moreton . |
| 24 | He told the court that he had known Paula for more than 25 years and married her to Eddie at his church in Moreton . |
| 25 | Caspar had crossed the room to stand at her side and he said , ‘ Sire — ’ And stopped in some confusion , because he had known Nuadu at once — he thought every person in Ireland would recognise him , for the wolfblood was unmistakable , and everyone knew the story of the Queen 's bastard wolfson and the fierce quarrels that had taken place between her and the King when Nuadu was born . |
| 26 | ‘ I had known Les for over 25 years as a friend and we appeared many times on stage together . |
| 27 | When I came into his life he had known Otto for about four years . |
| 28 | I had known Katharine for many years , and , in common with other members of the Kingman Committee , I had been impressed by her presentation when she appeared before us to answer questions . |
| 29 | Finney had known Harwood for a long time before finally working with him on the film of The Dresser . |
| 30 | I had known Bruce for some years as he often ministered to friends , and on two or three occasions when he had laid his hands on my back , the heat emanating from them was like a blowtorch . |