Example sentences of "had know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not want to believe that it was so , but he had to know for certain . |
| 2 | He had known for some time that it was inevitable . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Anne Nielson was an extraordinary woman , as he had known for years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The mistake was made even more stupid by the fact that he had known for some time the big tides were due . |
| 8 | She said that she knew about it and that she had known for quite a while . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years . |
| 16 | Ted Power , a fine collector , whom I had known for years and who had seen odd paintings in mixed shows wanted to buy something . |
| 17 | Moreover , Quentin Joyce , his brother , had known for at least ten years that their father was American by naturalisation . |
| 18 | The Special Branch had known for some weeks that he was in Germany . |
| 19 | Michael Sibele had known for the last two days why the gang of workmen was busy outside the main gates : repairing a burst mains pipe . |
| 20 | Candida Gray , Candida Gray , a name that she had known for as many years as she had known any such names ; she had not read as many of the novels as she ought to have done , but she had read one at least , and that one she actually remembered . |
| 21 | Doctors had known for 50 years about an enzyme that could dissolve the ligament without cutting . |
| 22 | She went on a school trip to Tuscany and saw many of the pictures she had known for so long . |
| 23 | Though tragically killed in a recent motorbike accident , Madra was an undisputed maestro of the art , as well as an easy and informative friend whom I had known for some time , so it was a shock to witness the epic genius which came through him , and the transformation which both he and his audience underwent in that open village square the first time I saw him perform . |
| 24 | A bedroom that she had known for at least ten of her seventeen years . |
| 25 | Whitely was all he knew and had known for the last sixteen years . |
| 26 | He had known for longer than he could remember . |
| 27 | She had known for a long time now . |
| 28 | And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk . |
| 29 | When my father arrived in Abyssinia in mid-December 1909 to take up his post as British Minister in charge of the Legation , the Emperor Menelik , the greatest ruler the country had known for centuries , was reported to be still alive ; but no one knew for certain , and all men asked what would happen when he died . |
| 30 | on long , summer evenings ) and quite another to go up to a girl , even one I had known for years and actually do such a thing . |