Example sentences of "he had known [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feelings retained their freshness in his memory : the delicious agony of watching her ; the frustration of not being able to touch her ; the pleasure he had when someone he had known at school passed along the towpath , looked up and saw him , Peter Redburn , having a drink with Kate Molland . |
| 2 | He was engulfed once more in an indescribable peace , and knew again , as he had known at dawn on the outskirts of Zweeloo , that he belonged to life , that the primal desire of man is to come into being , to achieve this peace . |
| 3 | Anne Nielson was an extraordinary woman , as he had known for years . |
| 4 | He realized afterwards that he had known for years , that there were a hundred fine details that he had chosen to ignore about her behaviour , her phone conversations , the times of her comings and goings . |
| 5 | He swung his head from side to side , trying to get rid of that image of the girl he had known as Stella Maris holding a baby in her arms . |
| 6 | UK Prime Minister John Major , whose critics claimed that he had known of fraud within BCCI when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1990 , announced on July 22 that Lord Justice Bingham would head an inquiry into the BCCI affair . |
| 7 | The Heather he had known on Rhodes was an uncomplicated and instantly likeable young woman : a little gauche perhaps , a little unsure of herself , but essentially only what she might be expected to be . |
| 8 | It mattered to him that the people of the south were of ancient lineage , far beyond anything that could have been imagined by the Americans he had known in New York , back in the Tens and Twenties . |
| 9 | Stirling had a lucky encounter , however , with Brigadier John Marriott , a Scots Guards officer whom he had known in Cairo . |
| 10 | John Capper , a journalist , contrasted the ambience of Colombo Police Court with the minor courts he had known in Britain : ‘ How different from the vicinity of the law courts at home ! |
| 11 | Nothing much came of this until he was summoned to an interview at the Foreign Office with Kenneth Cohen , an MI6 officer he had known in Hamburg . |