Example sentences of "have know [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Stych ate with all the avidity of one who has known starvation . |
| 2 | Alison , who runs a company specialising in marketing travel and tourism , has known Nick , an architect , for about 12 years , but they did n't get together until he became her lodger . |
| 3 | Rosalba closed her eyes , and beseeched heaven , not for the first time , ‘ Dear Lady , Lady who has known tears and cares and the love of God on earth , please help Serafina and give her lots of milk so she can make money and give her strength and stop people being unkind to her . |
| 4 | Iris has known Philippe for quite a long time . |
| 5 | Crilly has known Perry since early childhood . |
| 6 | In a country that has known hosepipe bans in autumn even as gardens disappear under floodwater , it is reasonable to wonder how much good the downpour of the past 48 hours has achieved . |
| 7 | At this level you need people like Mick playing at their best — and he has known times when that has unfortunately not been the case . |
| 8 | David Kindred , a columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution who has known Ali since his Louisville days , concluded that is most likely was n't him . |
| 9 | Handsome Gilbey has known Diana since she first moved to London as a teenager . |
| 10 | As James Gilbey , a member of the distilling dynasty who has known Diana since she was 17 , noted : ‘ She said to me recently that she had n't made any date in her diary past July because she does n't think she is going to be there . ’ |
| 11 | Lighting and setting are by Robert Cohan ( who has known war experience ) and there 's no doubt of the work 's deep sincerity and compassion for the American soldiers of its cast . |
| 12 | Brian Langley , who has known Suzanne since she was six , said : ‘ Things started going wrong when her mum left . |
| 13 | Mum-of-one Nicky , a divorced 34-year-old commercial director , has known Robert for about 16 years . |
| 14 | Lampi has known Emmett Chapman since he started playing music , and sees himself as the Stick 's embassador . |
| 15 | The designer , Sandy Powell , has known Anderson since their first day at St Martin 's when they played truant and headed off to the pub after about 15 minutes . |
| 16 | Imbert , who has known Moore 's daughter Mary since 1985 , has spent three years working in collaboration with her to organise the exhibition which , in its latter phases , has employed a team of forty people . |
| 17 | Ann Nalson has known Iain for years . |
| 18 | That evening , Philip , an ex-Merchant Taylors boy who has known Iain since prep school , is at home in his room when his mum calls him to the phone . |
| 19 | Novelist Graham Roos , 26 , who has known Antonia for eight years , said : ‘ She comes from a cosmopolitan background and she is quite sophisticated . |
| 20 | Their humour did not consist of mere jokes ( though they could make those too ) but in their whole attitude to life , as the violin runs through the Benedictus of the Missa Solemnis like a golden thread from which all else rises and falls ; an unforced humour which has known tragedy , and learnt to surmount it . |
| 21 | She 'd known Nick for years , meeting him when she 'd come to London to visit her cousin Mark Bristow , Sally 's son . |
| 22 | She was certainly a bewitching woman , but then he 'd known others every bit as bewitching , and not been panicked by them . |
| 23 | The months since she 'd left her father 's house had been tough in a number of ways ; she 'd known loneliness a lot of the time , solitude hardly at all . |
| 24 | And , ’ obscurely , ‘ my behaviour ’ , as you call it , might have been very different if I 'd known Hugh was a thing of the past . ’ |
| 25 | Once when he was away getting drinks , Barber asked me how long I 'd known G.P. |
| 26 | He had never been taken in , not really , not inside , but he 'd known moments of doubt , so his delight and relief were unbounded now he found that his instincts had been right all along ! |
| 27 | For just as he had begun to survey the picture from a wholly different angle , just as he thought he espied a gap in the clouds that hitherto had masked the shafts of sunlight the switchboard-operator dashed any hope of such a breakthrough with the simple statement that she 'd known Theodore Kemp very well indeed . |
| 28 | ‘ If I 'd known Kelly could n't come , I 'd have cancelled my own trip . ’ |
| 29 | Er I 'd known Lawrence since , it was either , nineteen eighty five or nineteen eighty six . |
| 30 | Where , I gather , Dhani put him in a Buddhist monastery and nursed him back to health — he 'd known Dhani at school and Cambridge . |