Example sentences of "have know [prep] " in BNC.

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1 SHOP stewards at Leyland-DAF 's Albion Works revealed yesterday that the Government has known of the truckmaker 's financial difficulties for a number of months .
2 ‘ Jason Donovan has known for a long time that The Face is not rich , and we have repeatedly offered to apologise unreservedly for the article , ’ the statement added .
3 ‘ Jason Donovan has known for a long time that The Face is not rich , and we have repeatedly offered to apologise unreservedly for the article , ’ the statement added .
4 What is documented in the book is what everyone in sport has known for years — that the use of steroids has been widespread in many sports since the sixties .
5 The art ( therapy ? ) of Reflexology is founded on the principle that massaging the feet can affect the health of other parts of the body , a fact which acupuncture has known for a long time .
6 Mrs. McKenzie , whose mother was also a member of Grayshott Good Companions , will be very sorry to leave the Thursday afternoon friends she has known for so long — but she will not be sitting at home alone as she is going to Grayshott 's weekly day centre .
7 Gioella is the sort of person everyone has known for ever .
8 The profits from Jimmy Campbell 's cleverly-titled book about the Blackpool he has known for more than 45 years will go to the RNLI , and so it is perhaps appropriate that the very first chapter looks at the well-known Bickerstaffe family .
9 There was also a mathematician there from the university who John has known for about thirty years and a young man from Rome , maybe the daughter 's boyfriend , who John also knew , as he , the young man , is the son of a scientific contact of John 's in Rome and the said Dave had sent son to John about two years ago to discuss what university course the son should do and where .
10 Although retired , Trevor continues to take an interest in the Stoddard Group as an agent for Lyles , keeping in touch with those he has known for many years .
11 Joan is Secretary to the Managing Director and Commercial Director and David , whom she has known for seven years , works with British Steel .
12 She would regularly pour out her heart to the kind-hearted friend who she has known since her teenage days .
13 Ashe has known since 1988 that he had the deadly virus .
14 The OSF press release and its mock shock horror surprise also does n't allow for the fact that Addamax voluntarily revealed Sun 's involvement to defendants ' counsel in October of 1991 and that OSF itself has known about it since at least May of this year .
15 Has known about her a long time .
16 Everyone has known about it for years . ’
17 George Hann says that in the years he has known about the business he has been approached on many occasions by people who ‘ come over as being very convincing but who turned out not to be genuine .
18 He knew it was wrong , but it is the first experience of real love and tenderness he has known in years .
19 She had achieved her purpose in being able to watch Angel grow , but often she was homesick for Clerkenwell and the friends she 'd known since childhood .
20 My mother was visiting someone who worked there whom she 'd known as a child .
21 Perkin , I thought , was one of the very few people who 'd known about the camera and the trail .
22 if I 'd known about that that would of great !
23 How much better life would have been if I 'd known about that or used it ?
24 erm would erm if you 'd known about it would erm you go and tell the firemen or would the firemen just find out
25 He had one photograph , from Shaun 's wedding , and the photograph 's arrival had been the first that he 'd known about any of it .
26 Sometimes they come back from their haunts very cross , and say , " If only I 'd known about that , " or " Why did n't I think of that ?
27 And he added , ‘ Ah wish Ah 'd known about coke when Ah was a kid . ’
28 ‘ Oh , I wish I 'd known about Elise and Rob . ’
29 Or had she only been cold because she 'd known of her husband 's friendship with a beautiful young Irish girl ?
30 ‘ Poor Tom would have been so very unhappy if he 'd known of this situation , ’ she 'd sniffed while fumbling for a handkerchief .
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