Example sentences of "have know [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She was certainly a bewitching woman , but then he 'd known others every bit as bewitching , and not been panicked by them . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | Yeah but she should have know ages ago that she was having twins . |
| 6 | ‘ Damn it , we should have known things were going too well . ’ |
| 7 | You may have made progress , you may have known times of happiness and fulfilment , but they have been few and far between . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's something Dana has n't told you that you should have known days ago , Claudia . |
| 9 | I 've known horses I could read like a book . |
| 10 | I 've known loads of people who who are working full time , and they come home Friday and the go out Friday night , stand up at the bar , and drink twenty pints or whatever , ten pints . |
| 11 | I 've known women to choose something highbrow to impress me — and sit in an agony of boredom all the way through . |
| 12 | He shrugged , then muttered , ‘ Only the fact that I 've known women to break their word . ’ |
| 13 | I mean I 've known lorries to go down and get out the human manure |
| 14 | Oh that was messy , you 're telling me was messy , I 've known cups of tea , you put a cup of tea on there the other cup of tea was there , well we never used to have saucers could n't afford them , that 'd be there a mug of tea and that 'd move like that off the table that 'd come cos the dredger was shaking so much . |
| 15 | We 've known fools , and they 're all dead . ’ |
| 16 | I 've known teachers go on to other posts in the private sector without any trouble after far worse things than you will ever be accused of . |
| 17 | Well I 've known gipies ever since I was a young lad many years ago . |
| 18 | I 've known ghosts who went back to their houses or caravans or their stately homes and there was n't a trace of them left , it was all tower blocks or allotments or -one lady ghost told me — a supermarket . |
| 19 | I mean I 've known wives er having bicycles ready in the , in the corridors of the house , where all the man had to do was to get his trousers on , if he was asleep in bed , she would come and open the front door , put him on his bike and away he went . |
| 20 | After the appeal in Air Mail , Mrs Marsden had calls from men who had known members of the crew . |
| 21 | The three men , two of whom were subsequently found to have been carrying replica guns , were not thought to be IRA members but had known records of delinquency . |
| 22 | About 130 ad Papias of Hierapolis in Asia Minor recorded traditions about the authorship of the gospels of Matthew and Mark , but also knew a story about Jesus found in the non-canonical ‘ Gospel according to the Hebrews ’ and was quite convinced that the mind of Jesus was captured less from written books than from the oral teaching of those seniors who had known apostles personally . |
| 23 | Now , as though solaced by the memory she said , ‘ I have known times when the water went to ice . |
| 24 | I have known others like Jackie , not in motor sport but in other areas . |
| 25 | I have known smallholders who lived in caravans and have seen nomad herdsmen in Asia who camp in the open or carry their tents on their backs . |
| 26 | I 've always done this , and have never known a horse get chapped heels or skin infections — whereas I have known horses whose owners follow the first course get mud fever . |
| 27 | Yet many of the Panamanian leaders installed by the US , including President Guillermo Endara , Vice President Guillermo ‘ Billy ’ Ford and Attorney General Rogelio Cruz , have known connections to drug laundering banks and drug dealers . |
| 28 | I have known students who feel obliged to know pages 1–65 almost by heart before they dare turn to page 66 . |
| 29 | Even on important occasions , we have known students come to an examination with a fountain pen only partially filled . |
| 30 | Yet I have known students to suppose that this is all a single problem , to be disposed of in a single breath . |