Example sentences of "[noun] have know for " in BNC.
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| 31 | The pits where the birds have buried their eggs are quite easy to spot — as human predators have known for centuries — by the slight mounds left by the birds at the surface . |
| 32 | We in the childrens services have known for two years that something more must be done and we must pay our staff more . |
| 33 | There was also a mathematician there from the university who John has known for about thirty years and a young man from Rome , maybe the daughter 's boyfriend , who John also knew , as he , the young man , is the son of a scientific contact of John 's in Rome and the said Dave had sent son to John about two years ago to discuss what university course the son should do and where . |
| 34 | Yet in being forced to come to the Commons to tidy up the mess — though splattering egg on the faces of the Foreign Office lawyers and his colleague Tristan Garel-Jones in the process — Hurd confirmed what a few MPs have known for months . |