Example sentences of "'ve known [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've known horses I could read like a book . |
| 2 | I 've known loads of people who who are working full time , and they come home Friday and the go out Friday night , stand up at the bar , and drink twenty pints or whatever , ten pints . |
| 3 | I 've known women to choose something highbrow to impress me — and sit in an agony of boredom all the way through . |
| 4 | He shrugged , then muttered , ‘ Only the fact that I 've known women to break their word . ’ |
| 5 | I mean I 've known lorries to go down and get out the human manure |
| 6 | Oh that was messy , you 're telling me was messy , I 've known cups of tea , you put a cup of tea on there the other cup of tea was there , well we never used to have saucers could n't afford them , that 'd be there a mug of tea and that 'd move like that off the table that 'd come cos the dredger was shaking so much . |
| 7 | We 've known fools , and they 're all dead . ’ |
| 8 | I 've known teachers go on to other posts in the private sector without any trouble after far worse things than you will ever be accused of . |
| 9 | Well I 've known gipies ever since I was a young lad many years ago . |
| 10 | I 've known ghosts who went back to their houses or caravans or their stately homes and there was n't a trace of them left , it was all tower blocks or allotments or -one lady ghost told me — a supermarket . |
| 11 | I mean I 've known wives er having bicycles ready in the , in the corridors of the house , where all the man had to do was to get his trousers on , if he was asleep in bed , she would come and open the front door , put him on his bike and away he went . |