Example sentences of "had know [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Cubbage was by this time almost demented , he had to know Coleen 's decision , so he wrote an impassioned letter begging her to accept his proposal of marriage . |
| 2 | Erm on , on yours in fact I could n't check sequence erm on the programme that you 'd given me because I did n't , I , I had know way of telling whether we did get a clash . |
| 3 | In all the time he had know Joe , he had never seen anyone else in his room ; indeed he had never seen him in company , except at the meetings of the IRB . |
| 4 | He had known Ruth since she was born . |
| 5 | He had known Harry Lawrence since the fall of '88 . |
| 6 | Over 200 people attended , many of whom had known Harry as their warden . |
| 7 | She had known Nancy for years , of course . |
| 8 | Speaking at his home last night , Mr Hall refused to say if he had known Timex had been planning to close the factory . |
| 9 | Robert Bevan , one of their number , had worked at Pont-Aven and had known Paul Gauguin , and Sickert , whose sympathy with France went deep , owned a house in Neuville , on the outskirts of Dieppe , which he lent for a time to the Gilmans . |
| 10 | She had known Violet Kray for many years . |
| 11 | as if he had known Doyle all his life . |
| 12 | The questioning was being done by an older detective , Sergeant Jimmy Thackeray , who had known Terry Place well at one time . |
| 13 | I had known Willie since childhood days at Nairn , Geoffrey I had come to know later ; and while I greatly admired them both , and still do , I found this closing of establishment ranks deeply shocking . |
| 14 | Celia had known Alan 's blood-group , and knew what it meant regarding Donna . |
| 15 | After the appeal in Air Mail , Mrs Marsden had calls from men who had known members of the crew . |
| 16 | No one I met in the Yukon had known Service , but there was still a highly commercial bar bearing the name — the Malamute Saloon . |
| 17 | Sami 's cousin and business associate , Jamal Hamadan , had known Younis for six years . |
| 18 | Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional : |
| 19 | He was an elderly Scotsman , a man of the north , who had worked all his life in South London and was now near to retirement ; he had known Phyllis Henley for almost all of his career . |
| 20 | He too had known Phyllis Henley . |
| 21 | They had once been cherished , had known warmth and love . |
| 22 | She had known Vitor D'Arcos was her true love and so , with her body , she had plighted her troth . |
| 23 | He had known Nurse Jones for thirty years , she was an institution in the village . |
| 24 | Why should there have been such friction with the Nazareans in Jerusalem , some of whom had known Jesus personally and were certainly closer to him than Paul ever was ? |
| 25 | The apostles , the folk who had known Jesus in the old days in Galilee , Stephen , Paul ; all are ‘ witnesses of these things ; and so is the Holy Spirit whom God had given to those who obey him ’ ( Acts 5:32 ) . |
| 26 | She had known hope . |
| 27 | Colvin had known Burne-Jones , and was persuaded to write a preface for a London gallery show . |
| 28 | She learned among many other things that Felicity had known Peter 's first wife quite well and admired her desperately as she struggled with her increasing disability and urged her husband to live as freely as he could . |
| 29 | Of all his field agents Philpott had known Whitlock the longest , having personally recruited him for MIS at Oxford University . |
| 30 | The libretto , which had been lying in his drawer for years , had been written by a M. Frontenac , who had known Alain-Fournier personally , and had been under the spell of his novel since it first appeared in 1913 . |