Example sentences of "i 've know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 2 | I 've know Tony almost all my life ! ’ |
| 3 | Yeah , but thing is I mean , you know , there 's a lot of kids out there , I mean I 've know with , sort of , Lee 's friend you know , okay , with us I mean with Lee o okay we do n't I 've often said to him , why do n't you get a Saturday job ? |
| 4 | Yeah , yeah , I 've know that , that 's been on the market for about a year , year and a half now . |
| 5 | Good God , I 've known you long enough and why the hell have my knees decided to take their annual vacation at this precise moment ? |
| 6 | I 've known you In Love , but never quite like this . |
| 7 | That such care may well characterize those activities which Scruton declares can not possess it is suggested by Andrew Lumsden 's appropriately passing remark on the casual , anonymous sexual encounter : ‘ for now I can only generalize : as I 've known it , men are never so peaceful , so unviolent ( physically and emotionally ) , so graceful with each other ( no matter how ‘ crude' ’ the act ) as they are — as we are — when content to take each other without the addition of names , or beds , or flats , or even of any clear impression of one-another 's looks ' ( Gay News , 235 ( Mar. 1982 ) , 17 ) . |
| 8 | All that 's fine with me ; I 've known the bloody thing was wrong for ages anyway . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've known him three years and he was always flush . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've known Nora since she was so high , ’ said Updike . |
| 11 | I could n't believe that anyone could love me and a lady equally , although I 've had a lot of experiences since and I 've known a lot of men and a lot of women since who have loved both sexes . |
| 12 | I really ca n't answer for David because in all the years that I 've known him , I always actually found him a rather cold person , even when I was 14 and he was 16 , even as boy and girlfriend . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've known her a couple of years . |
| 14 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 15 | Ever since I 've known him , leaving things all over the place ! ’ |
| 16 | And anyway , ’ said Marie , ‘ I 've known Gazzer all my life . ’ |
| 17 | She said , ’ — and here Simon mimicked Marie 's voice , exaggerating her slow , hesitant way of speaking — ‘ she said : ‘ I 've known Gazzer all my life … . ’ |
| 18 | Some of them are sons of friends I 've known for years . |
| 19 | I 've known him all my life . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've known them out a week . |
| 21 | People I 've known for years . |
| 22 | Now the Marais Poitevin is a pleasantly low-profile tourist attraction where you can take canal-boat trips from villages that have hardly changed in the 15-odd years I 've known them : Maillezais , with a huge and rather dull ruined abbey , and Coulon , where I first ate the delicious local version of moules marinieres called mouclade . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've known this parrot for 35 years and he still bites me , ’ says Petre . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've known this parrot for 35 years and he still bites me , ’ says Petre . |
| 25 | I 've known them fitted with steel screws which rust in , making it necessary to break the china away and remove the screws later with a pair of Molegrips . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've known that since the first day Gomez came on board and checked the Loran navigation worked . |
| 27 | ‘ Just recently I met a woman in somebody else 's house and she said , ‘ I 'm sure I 've known you before ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Partly because I 've known him for years . |
| 29 | I 've known them all a long time and I love 'em … |
| 30 | But he wrote to Hanns ‘ Do n't worry about conditions here : although they can be grim , I 've known them a lot grimmer in S.A. ’ He declared that ‘ being new in London is a full time job ’ and described the town rhapsodically as |