Example sentences of "had known [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles , by contrast , had known nothing but restriction and discipline . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The appointment was all the more surprising within the Colonial Service where , contrary to common precedent , Macpherson had never been tried out as ‘ officer administering the government ’ ( OAG ) ; but those who had known him in Lagos a decade earlier at once recognized that they were getting the outstanding man of the Service . |
| 4 | It had to be a child , Coffin thought , and had n't Mrs Foster been Gilly Slee when he had known her at Hook Road School ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A great adventure , a fitting enterprise for one who had known herself from infancy to be set apart for some rare destiny , and one that she had thought herself to have pursued courageously , successfully , with a redeeming love that had rescued even the anguished , complex , hostile Aaron , and had saved him from his wilder flights . |
| 7 | His parents had known it as Andrássy after the Count who had been prime minister when that part of Pest was laid out . |
| 8 | It was true , it was true , it was true : secretly , instinctively , she had known it for weeks . |
| 9 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |