Example sentences of "[noun] i have known " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , my sheer busyness had squeezed out the close intimacy I had known with him during the first few months of the year after my operation . |
| 2 | Well I knew , when I was in , when we were at Donnington , living at Donnington , a couple of blokes I 've known there 's company sergeant majors and regimental sergeant majors in the Signals , I was walking through shed four , one day , I was doing , doing some mucking about with these folding boats for the RE 's |
| 3 | During holidays at The Milebrook I found once again the freedom I had known in Abyssinia , but now for only three months in the year . |
| 4 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 5 | The Jessica I 'd known then would have felt more enthusiasm for a Christmas cracker bangle than she was showing for her gold bracelet . |
| 6 | It is an observable fact that the greatest drivers I have known have all been highly safety conscious : a sign that their minds ruled their instincts . |
| 7 | Archbishop William Temple [ q.v. ] , who described him as ‘ the finest priest I have known ’ , characterized him as evangelical without a trace of Puritanism , and fired by a strong Catholic sacramentalism , with the cross at the heart of it all . |
| 8 | Instead one has delicatessens which are more brightly lit and infinitely more hygienic than the small corner shops I have known , but with their fridges and freezers and extraction fans they have tamed their wares and robbed them of their pungency . |
| 9 | In the village I have known for the last 10 years , they openly regret that things were better under Marcos . |
| 10 | SHARKS I 'VE KNOWN Mike deGruy 's astounding encounters in the deep |
| 11 | The Karen I had known a few months earlier , a simple , straightforward creature with healthy appetites , had been metamorphosed by my spells into a raving obsessive who regarded the spawning of offspring not as a lowest-common-denominator activity like excretion but as a moral and creative achievement on a par with , say , painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling . |
| 12 | It was so different from other Christmases I had known that it ought to have remained like a beacon in my mind , but I know that my strongest memory of Christmas will always be bound up with a certain little cat . |
| 13 | What came was a sort of double-image — the boy I had known up to yesterday , young , grubby , entertaining , kind , lively , with his impish , monkey-plainness ; and the face I had seen last night for the first time , a face wiped clean of everything but rapture and tenderness and astonishment , a different face , a face to love and find beautiful . |
| 14 | During peak periods I 've known 200 lorries waiting to tip , backing-up out of the port and along the surrounding roads . |
| 15 | Office Cleaning has held on to its portfolio in the face of the fiercest price-competition I have known , and as the year has progressed our strengthening sales team has begun to make good headway . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're a fool , I thought differently of you , but you 're nothing but a fool , a lovesick fool , like every other idiot girl I 've known . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As a small child I had known all the words of Masefield 's poem , ‘ Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir/Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine … ’ |
| 19 | For his own successor he suggested Rohde , " the ablest of all the younger philologists I have known " , and with a disarming naivety he added : " I can not express how profoundly my life here in Basle would be alleviated by the presence of my best friend . " |
| 20 | Lofoten is the most beautiful place I have known , yet I find it one of the most difficult places to write about . |
| 21 | An idealist all the days I had known him , we had been very close . |
| 22 | For the last two days I have known what I lost when I left you and , while you should not have believed Havvie , I can understand why you did . |
| 23 | Now I could write a book on Workers I have known and they are worth a mention here , because I can not think of any other branch of agriculture , but organics , where people will almost pay to work for you . |
| 24 | Richmond I have known from childhood as an incomparably pretty town , castle keep , sloping irregular polygonal square , houses and big pubs grouped round like something in a model . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Hairdressers and make-up artists know who 's had what done and where , who 's had whom , when and how , and with what , where and how many times , and in the thirteen years I 've known Lynette , I have never known her betray a confidence , so I tell her what the lump is . |
| 27 | ‘ Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her ’ |
| 28 | Then she burst into tears — as she always has done for the four years I 've known her . |
| 29 | Though I will say this for you , my love and here she put her arm most affectionately round his waist , " in the years I 've known you , he 's been your only real disaster . " |
| 30 | Forty years I 've known Gloria . |