Example sentences of "have know [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 You must have known people who remembered Bruckner — Paumgartner 's father had known him , Schalk …
2 She did it as she would have thought Shakespeare would have known people and things , you know , she did it like that .
3 She did it as she would have thought Shakespeare would have known people and things , you know , she did it like that .
4 I 've known people who have been upset by , you know ,
5 In fact I 've known people to go right in , so it , it , it 's not a simple job , you know , and they do take a great deal of risk with this , and I do , I mean it 's much more serious than I think than the government find , it should really work hard to try , to try to find something else .
6 sort of feel you know , I mean , I 've known people where , I mean , it was like us the day we moved in here
7 I 've known people also raise bedding plants at home erm
8 We might also note that , in order to arrive at the implicature , we have to know certain.facts about the world , that garages sell petrol , and that round the corner is not a great distance away .
9 All observers agree that here know does not express the mere awareness of a fact , but functions rather as a verb of perception ( Jespersen 1940 : 282 ; van Ek 1966 : 104 ; Palmer 1988 : 200 ) ; that is to say , here I have known means " I have actually experienced , seen , or heard " ( cf.
10 I have known people to hold a rabbit down with one foot and then , after picking the ferret up in the normal way with their other hand , squeeze the ferret 's foot .
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