Example sentences of "[vb past] know for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Among the flowers , a tribute from the hospital , to a nurse they 'd known for 5 years who 'll be deeply missed .
2 Pan Am , the third US carrier to cease operations in 1991 , was founded in 1927 and became known for expanding air routes to south America and pioneering US air travel to the Far East .
3 Under the Rouxs , it was called Le Gamin and became known for inexpensive but elegant food in cramped surroundings .
4 One thing we did know for sure was that it was not keep-fit exercises that we needed but homes that were ‘ fit ’ to live in and incomes or benefits that prevented us from having to choose between dying from hypothermia or malnutrition !
5 He did not want to believe that it was so , but he had to know for certain .
6 Wilson , shut up in her own world all winter , was astonished to learn what everyone else in Florence had known for many a month — French troops had poured into Piedmont and 1848 was to be repeated all over again .
7 Crosby in 1981 was a classic example : the voters lost a man they had known for thirty years and they did n't know who to vote for instead .
8 Wenger 's data show that 43 per cent of elderly people named as a confidant someone they had known for at least 50 years , and 75 per cent named someone they had known for 30 years .
9 He had known for longer than he could remember .
10 He had known for some time that it was inevitable .
11 Carter he had known for some ten years , firstly at Shrivenham , three miles away in the Vale of the White Horse , and now at Watchfield .
12 The mistake was made even more stupid by the fact that he had known for some time the big tides were due .
13 The Special Branch had known for some weeks that he was in Germany .
14 Though tragically killed in a recent motorbike accident , Madra was an undisputed maestro of the art , as well as an easy and informative friend whom I had known for some time , so it was a shock to witness the epic genius which came through him , and the transformation which both he and his audience underwent in that open village square the first time I saw him perform .
15 And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk .
16 ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life .
17 As the official investigation got under way , there were allegations that senior US officials had known for some time of BNL 's dealings with Iraq .
18 A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years .
19 She was a woman he had known for several years now ; one with whom he had never slept ; one who half repelled , and ever half attracted him .
20 Doctors had known for 50 years about an enzyme that could dissolve the ligament without cutting .
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