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

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1	I had known him for a number of years .
2	I felt that I had known it for a long time .
3	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 .
4	‘ I thought you 'd known them for years .
5	She and Sheila had had disagreements before — not really surprising when you 'd known someone for twelve years , since the first day they had peered at the college noticeboard together .
6	He was a very easy person to talk to , and long before they reached home she felt as if she had known him for years .
7	She had known him for many years .
8	It was true , it was true , it was true : secretly , instinctively , she had known it for weeks .
9	In the bedroom she had done everything that Tom Horrocks had bidden her , reflexively , without panic ; yet she had known herself for the first time up against the frailty of the human organism — ; the mess of it , the degradation .
10	But you had known her for so long that she must have seemed immortal . ’
11	Miss Evans had become Auntie Lou and it seemed they had known her for ever .
12	When Charles protested that he was always volunteering , they wanted to know what for .
13	Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment .
14	His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time .
15	But there was no denying that today his wife was better than he had known her for many many months .
16	Giancarlo took her arm courteously as if he had known her for years , and , followed by his guests , led her out of the sun on the terrace and into the shade at the side of the house .
17	She was the daughter of an earl , well-versed in the ways of the world before she had taken the veil , and he had known her for as long as he could remember .

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