Example sentences of "[vb past] know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd known for weeks and stayed by me , anxious when I was out of sight , whining in the daytime when they never used to . |
| 2 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 3 | Rehearsals were due to begin for myself and my accompanist/narrator John Gould , a shy , quirky , gifted musician whom I 'd known for almost twenty years . |
| 4 | My problems were : I had a body in the bath right behind me , a girl I 'd known for less than twenty-four hours in a bed in the next room , I was staying in the house of somebody I 'd never met who was currently at a family wedding somewhere north of Karachi and somewhere down the yellow brick road I had to call the cops . |
| 5 | Surely there was no harm in this , just sitting here in her car with David Markham , a man whom after all , she 'd known for years . |
| 6 | Among the flowers , a tribute from the hospital , to a nurse they 'd known for 5 years who 'll be deeply missed . |
| 7 | Originally the Pinkertons were detectives but they became known for spying on union organizers and breaking strikes by violent means . |
| 8 | A double Oxford blue for boxing and rowing , he soon became known for his enthusiasm and commitment to sport , usually a backwater post . |
| 9 | Under the Rouxs , it was called Le Gamin and became known for inexpensive but elegant food in cramped surroundings . |
| 10 | One year after Brooklands opened , A V Roe , one of Britain 's aviation pioneers arrived on site , other aviators followed , flying schools were set up and Brooklands soon became known for the ‘ art of aviating ’ . |
| 11 | Because the market women became known for their opposition to the regime , the larger markets were heavily infiltrated by members of the security forces . |
| 12 | As a lawyer he became known for his defence of dissidents and conscientious objectors . |
| 13 | Pan Am , the third US carrier to cease operations in 1991 , was founded in 1927 and became known for expanding air routes to south America and pioneering US air travel to the Far East . |
| 14 | Founded in 1929 by Hinrich Medau , the Medau-Schule soon became known for its own particular form of movement . |
| 15 | Wanting Rudd to apply his mind to motor racing again , Chapman gave him his famous 27-page handwritten list of ‘ things he needed to know for F1 ’ . |
| 16 | One thing we did know for sure was that it was not keep-fit exercises that we needed but homes that were ‘ fit ’ to live in and incomes or benefits that prevented us from having to choose between dying from hypothermia or malnutrition ! |
| 17 | He did not want to believe that it was so , but he had to know for certain . |
| 18 | He had known for some time that it was inevitable . |
| 19 | Crosby in 1981 was a classic example : the voters lost a man they had known for thirty years and they did n't know who to vote for instead . |
| 20 | Wilson , shut up in her own world all winter , was astonished to learn what everyone else in Florence had known for many a month — French troops had poured into Piedmont and 1848 was to be repeated all over again . |
| 21 | Anne Nielson was an extraordinary woman , as he had known for years . |
| 22 | Carter he had known for some ten years , firstly at Shrivenham , three miles away in the Vale of the White Horse , and now at Watchfield . |
| 23 | The mistake was made even more stupid by the fact that he had known for some time the big tides were due . |
| 24 | She said that she knew about it and that she had known for quite a while . |
| 25 | Less than a fortnight later a panic call from Mrs Brodowitz revealed that Anita was engaged to a man she had known for only two days — ‘ a real Cockney , who appears to have a lot of money ’ . |
| 26 | In view of my evident misery , both at the onset and towards the end of the disease , the two statements may at first seem irreconcilable : I was desperately unhappy and had known for years that death can put an end to everything , including unhappiness . |
| 27 | Oddly enough , his father , whom Peter had known for a much shorter time , was quite distinct in his memory , right down to the smell of Palmolive shaving cream and Gold Leaf cigarettes . |
| 28 | The rest were a maze of villages with names that sounded like the refrain for a pantomime song , villages whose lives were as far removed from those Manchester lives he had known for so long that it was as if they inhabited another planet . |
| 29 | Wenger 's data show that 43 per cent of elderly people named as a confidant someone they had known for at least 50 years , and 75 per cent named someone they had known for 30 years . |
| 30 | Wenger 's data show that 43 per cent of elderly people named as a confidant someone they had known for at least 50 years , and 75 per cent named someone they had known for 30 years . |