Example sentences of "[pers pn] had 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had known him for many years . |
| 6 | It was true , it was true , it was true : secretly , instinctively , she had known it for weeks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But you had known her for so long that she must have seemed immortal . ’ |
| 9 | Miss Evans had become Auntie Lou and it seemed they had known her for ever . |
| 10 | His voice was sharp , yet as intimate as if he had known her for a long time . |
| 11 | But there was no denying that today his wife was better than he had known her for many many months . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |