Example sentences of "have know in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew it was wrong , but it is the first experience of real love and tenderness he has known in years . |
| 2 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
| 3 | I wish I 'd known in advance . |
| 4 | ‘ If I 'd known in time , I would n't have . |
| 5 | She was in the happiest frame of mind she 'd known in recent times when later that day she returned to her car . |
| 6 | You 'd have to know in advance . |
| 7 | Theo must have known in any case : he was always his parents ' confidant and advisor , as well as his brother 's . |
| 8 | Bonnie Prince Charlie had a price of thirty thousand pounds on his head when he was being ferried hither and yon across many isles and sea-lochs of the Hebrides , and yet , and yet — the people of the west , such as Flora Macdonald and Malcolm Macleod of Raasay , risked their lives for a man they must have known in their hearts was a lost cause . |
| 9 | From long experience , Belinda 's younger brothers would have known in an instant by the crisp , deceptively mild tone that she was no longer fooling around , but unfortunately Greg Carey was n't possessed of this experience , so he said on a thick , purring note , ‘ Because you need to loosen up , get rid of some inhibitions . |
| 10 | At this point I had one of those Proustian flashbacks about just such a place which I seemed to have known in childhood . |
| 11 | But it has such appeal that the casinos are reporting more feverish betting activity than they 've known in a long time . |
| 12 | But I was one with the solitaries of the spirit , too : with St Teresa and St John of the Cross as well as with humbler dissidents like Jordi and one or two other men of the working class I had known in Spain , the young bank clerk I had met in Cordoba the previous spring , among the orange and lilac blossom of Las Tendillas , where we walked and whispered , hardly daring to look at one another , and separating at the sight of police . |
| 13 | Yet his presence was everywhere in the house , like my father 's , and in all the places we had known in London and Bath and Bristol . |
| 14 | This man , who was soon joined by three friends , reminded me of the woozily friendly Galway people I had known in Brighton in the late sixties and early seventies . |
| 15 | Near the bus and railway station stood a Great Southern Hotel , not too different from the luxurious mansion I had known in Killarney . |
| 16 | When she did return to her kingdom , what she saw was , inevitably , very small-scale and impoverished compared to what she had known in France . |
| 17 | She could remember Hamlet and the dates of important battles in the Revolutionary War and the names of Disney 's Seven Dwarfs and the telephone numbers of old boyfriends and the faces of people she had known in college but not seen in years and the deadlines for the three pieces she had been working on … |
| 18 | Nothing much came of this until he was summoned to an interview at the Foreign Office with Kenneth Cohen , an MI6 officer he had known in Hamburg . |
| 19 | Stirling had a lucky encounter , however , with Brigadier John Marriott , a Scots Guards officer whom he had known in Cairo . |
| 20 | Mr. Reilly remarked of Mr William Paul , a leading member of the society , that he ‘ exceeded anyone I had known in his spirit and power in prayer ; and oh , how rich and copious were his quotations from scripture and our hymns ’ . |
| 21 | In most cases , the environments , climates and conditions they encountered must have been very different from what they had known in Ayrshire . |
| 22 | There was nothing left of the friendship they had known in Barnswick . |
| 23 | John Capper , a journalist , contrasted the ambience of Colombo Police Court with the minor courts he had known in Britain : ‘ How different from the vicinity of the law courts at home ! |
| 24 | The Indians of the Plains — Apache and Comanche — that he had known in the Sons of Geronimo had sworn that the white man 's time was nearing an end , and that the buffalo would return . |
| 25 | Madam Lundy had given him a list of possible contacts in Dublin , people she had known in her days here ; some owed her favours , others had exploitable vices or indiscretions . |
| 26 | In so far as Ferdinand had a system it was the restoration of the machinery of government and the society that he had known in 1808 : ministerial despotism superimposed on the old Councils , the very system the Persians professed to abhor . |
| 27 | It mattered to him that the people of the south were of ancient lineage , far beyond anything that could have been imagined by the Americans he had known in New York , back in the Tens and Twenties . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There was chance to renew acquaintances with families she had known in Africa . |
| 30 | Why , she had seen better days , thought Ianthe in surprise , for the Miss Grimes she had known in the library , with her raffish appearance and slight Cockney accent , had not suggested anything like this . |