Example sentences of "had know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She phoned her mother again at a time her father could not be there ; she had to know about Mike and Catherine , what was happening . |
| 2 | He did not want to believe that it was so , but he had to know for certain . |
| 3 | Barth was driven to this not only by his own exceptionally and relentlessly enquiring mind , but also by the shaking of the foundations of the world he had known under the impact of the First World War . |
| 4 | And then he was doubly frightened , because he had known without seeing the face or hearing the voice , from small familiarities of feel and smell . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Humphrey did not confine his activities solely to the steel works and walked across the fields he had known during his earthly days . |
| 7 | The White House admitted it had known of the plot for days and had not discouraged the rebels . |
| 8 | While he had known of the groundswell of resistance to the regime , experiencing it outside of jail was something else . |
| 9 | If she had known of how the Greeks slaughtered the bearers of bad tidings she might have taken longer to decide it was her duty , but , as it was , she saw no need to fear for herself , only for the person to whom she would relate the devastating news . |
| 10 | Foresters had known of such things before . |
| 11 | David calmly pointed out that the scheme would have been pointless if the ‘ enemy ’ had known of our intentions . |
| 12 | It was the first time they had met although he had known of her existence as he had of all the handful of people who lived , as the Lydsett villagers said , ‘ t' other side of the gate ’ . |
| 13 | Because I had known of it . |
| 14 | This came in January 1991 , with the arrival on the scene of licensed engineer Bob Eatwell , who admits that if he had known of the multitude of technical and administrative problems that he faced , would have walked out of the Rochester workshop , into sanity ! |
| 15 | From the time they could read and write and understand , Stepan Holovich and Ilya , who was to become his wife , had known of the battle . |
| 16 | He had known of the death of Oleg Demyonov , he had been told of the Soviet retaliation , he had been informed of the visit by the Consul to Lefortovo gaol . |
| 17 | The first Sara had known of Adam 's injury was when she had turned up to collect him at the school gate . |
| 18 | As the DTI had failed to act when it had known of irregularities within the firm , did not the Government have a moral obligation towards the dupes ? |
| 19 | Even the directors had known of the trick . |
| 20 | On 5 August 1974 , the President admitted that he had known of the Watergate break-in in June 1972 , and confessed to his part in the subsequent cover-up . |
| 21 | Would Natasha admit she had known of Maurice 's plan from the outset ? |
| 22 | But Floy was still sickened ; he remembered how on Renascia they had tried to follow what they had known of the Earth-people 's death rituals and how they had had the large , austere Firehouse with the ornate bronze lamps which were always kept burning in memory of those who had died . |
| 23 | This must be because he did not know any observations of it : Darwin was interested by every possible form of moral behaviour in animals , and if he had known of restrained fighting , he would have written about it . |
| 24 | A wizened little man Wycliffe had known of old , said : ‘ Somebody did n't like him . |
| 25 | Since his first meeting with Wagner in 1868 he had known of the latter 's conviction that Schopenhauer was " the only philosopher who had understood the essence of music " . |
| 26 | But there were those who said that Douglas had known of it and connived at it . |
| 27 | Matilda had known of Edmund 's death and had deliberately kept that fact from her . |
| 28 | However , Rico was himself arrested on Dec. 10 for allegedly inciting public disorder , by claiming in the press that there were major problems still unresolved in the Army , that he had known of the intended rebellion , and that he had made a mistake in not preventing it . |
| 29 | According to Rose , members of the Department of Agriculture 's Commodity Credit Corporation ( CCC ) had known of this , and had written memoranda expressing worries that it might be discovered . |
| 30 | 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 . |