Example sentences of "have know [noun] for " in BNC.
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1 | Iris has known Philippe for quite a long time . |
2 | Mum-of-one Nicky , a divorced 34-year-old commercial director , has known Robert for about 16 years . |
3 | Ann Nalson has known Iain for years . |
4 | Novelist Graham Roos , 26 , who has known Antonia for eight years , said : ‘ She comes from a cosmopolitan background and she is quite sophisticated . |
5 | She 'd known Nick for years , meeting him when she 'd come to London to visit her cousin Mark Bristow , Sally 's son . |
6 | She 'd known Candy for too long to have any hope that she would escape without an inquisition . |
7 | Janet Bush said : ‘ I 'd known Paula for many years . |
8 | She told the court : ‘ I 'd known Paula for many years . |
9 | Janet Bush said : ‘ I 'd known Paula for many years . |
10 | She told the court : ‘ I 'd known Paula for many years . |
11 | But of course you 've known Spaxton for so long . ’ |
12 | West Bromwich boss Ardiles , an enthusiastic 15-handicap golfer , said : ‘ I 've known Vicente for a long time . |
13 | But , since you 're so interested , I 've known Nicole for a long time . ’ |
14 | ‘ I 've known Francisco for years — I met him the first year I came here , when Monte Samana was brand new . ’ |
15 | ‘ I 've known Arnie for ages . |
16 | I 've known Heather for quite a while — a sort of on-and-off relationship , I suppose . |
17 | Well , I shall need a lot of persuasion to change my mind , but I 've known Edward for a very long time and we 're good friends . |
18 | I 've known Newley for quite a while now . |
19 | Erm I 've known John for many years . |
20 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
21 | ‘ I 've known Billy for many years . |
22 | I 've known Becky for a long time and I never thought she 'd go public with what is a private afffair … it may in part be naivity … but I think some of it was vengence . |
23 | She had known Nancy for years , of course . |
24 | Sami 's cousin and business associate , Jamal Hamadan , had known Younis for six years . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | ‘ 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 . |
27 | Angela Jones , 26 , of the same address , said she had known Michael for eight years and they had lived together for seven . |
28 | He told the court that he had known Paula for more than 25 years and married her to Eddie at his church in Moreton . |
29 | He told the court that he had known Paula for more than 25 years and married her to Eddie at his church in Moreton . |
30 | ‘ I had known Les for over 25 years as a friend and we appeared many times on stage together . |