Example sentences of "have know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Gioella is the sort of person everyone has known for ever . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Joan is Secretary to the Managing Director and Commercial Director and David , whom she has known for seven years , works with British Steel . |
| 11 | They 'd known for weeks and stayed by me , anxious when I was out of sight , whining in the daytime when they never used to . |
| 12 | The owner was a small exter named Fif , a ball of orange fur with tentacles , whom I 'd known for a long time in various planets . |
| 13 | Rehearsals were due to begin for myself and my accompanist/narrator John Gould , a shy , quirky , gifted musician whom I 'd known for almost twenty years . |
| 14 | My problems were : I had a body in the bath right behind me , a girl I 'd known for less than twenty-four hours in a bed in the next room , I was staying in the house of somebody I 'd never met who was currently at a family wedding somewhere north of Karachi and somewhere down the yellow brick road I had to call the cops . |
| 15 | Surely there was no harm in this , just sitting here in her car with David Markham , a man whom after all , she 'd known for years . |
| 16 | Among the flowers , a tribute from the hospital , to a nurse they 'd known for 5 years who 'll be deeply missed . |
| 17 | The French high command must also have known for some time , but hushed it up no doubt . ’ |
| 18 | Had they seen billions of neutrons as well as the heat then they would have known for sure that fusion was occurring ; and may already have begun to worry about their health from prolonged exposure . |
| 19 | They must have known for weeks . |
| 20 | Jahanbini had been one of the few people to have known for almost a month that they were going to leave Iran . |
| 21 | He did not want to believe that it was so , but he had to know for certain . |
| 22 | Some of them are sons of friends I 've known for years . |
| 23 | People I 've known for years . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've known for 23 years what the potential problems were but done little to solve them , ’ says Hinners . |
| 25 | We 've known for a long time that when you can talk on the run , the miles just fly by . |
| 26 | On this first video , Mr Colbeck guides you gently through the workings of an array of popular home studio gear ( including the Fostex X28 four-track cassette recorder and the Alesis Quadraverb ) with the friendly manner of a family doctor you 've known for years . |
| 27 | I had the result this afternoon , but I 've known for a few weeks , really . |
| 28 | I 've known for months that … that what I feel for you is special , very special . |
| 29 | Mills was amoral and untrustworthy , but we 've known for a while now that he definitely worked for us . ’ |
| 30 | They quote an Under Secretary commenting upon informal communications networks : ‘ Some of these people I 've known for twenty-five years and we can of course communicate with each other almost in code . ’ |