Example sentences of "know for some " in BNC.
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1 | But we shall not know for some time yet . |
2 | I was in the Lion , fortnight ago , Sunday dinnertime and lads had been on this er bike ride , you know for some children |
3 | John Rolfe , conference chairman , said : ‘ People within the industry have known for some time there is a need for such a gathering . |
4 | It has been known for some years now that records of the electricity activity of the brain during sleep — by electrodes attached to the scalp , face and neck — confirm that different types of sleep exist . |
5 | He had known for some time that it was inevitable . |
6 | Carter he had known for some ten years , firstly at Shrivenham , three miles away in the Vale of the White Horse , and now at Watchfield . |
7 | Rhoda he had also known for some time . |
8 | Vera Loomis , the ninety-two-year-old who lived at number 92 and was known for some reason as Got All the Things There Then ? had offered plum wine or home-brewed lager and Susan Doyle , who was reported to watch News at Ten while her husband pleasured her , had suggested lemonade shandy . |
9 | It had been known for some time that relations between Stephenson and Villa were strained because of the player 's insistence on living in his home-town of Newcastle , and several clubs , keen to secure him , were watching the situation closely . |
10 | The French high command must also have known for some time , but hushed it up no doubt . ’ |
11 | The latter phenomenon has been known for some time , Zwaardemaker recording several ‘ cancelling pairs ’ as far back as 1875 , which included : |
12 | The mistake was made even more stupid by the fact that he had known for some time the big tides were due . |
13 | The powerful hydrogen bonding capacity of fluoride , discussed by John Emsley , has been known for some time , but its potential for interfering with the vitally important hydrogen bonds between biomolecules has only recently begun to receive attention . |
14 | Scientists have known for some time that fusion reactions between nuclei of deuterium and tritium are more likely if the nuclear spins line up in the same direction . |
15 | I am delighted to have heard anything worthwhile by Schillings , whose music I have known for some time in piano-vocal scores but have not encountered in performance . |
16 | The Carter boy , Jonathan , known for some reason as Floss , took to spending long hours by the pool in a barely concealed state of voyeuristic arousal . |
17 | Organisations have known for some considerable time that the acquisition , distribution and effective use of information is a key factor in gaining a competitive advantage . |
18 | The Major , a close confidant of the Princess , added : ‘ We have known for some time that some very senior members of the IOC have the knives out for our sport . |
19 | People have known for some time what has been going on , and I 'm surprised it has taken this long to come out into the open . |
20 | We have known for some time that this can not have been the case . |
21 | It has been known for some time that eyes give out bioelectric signals — the retina has a positive charge , the cornea is negative . |
22 | The Special Branch had known for some weeks that he was in Germany . |
23 | When he slept there , as he occasionally did in the classroom on the ground floor known for some mysterious reason as the ‘ Remove ’ , he could hear the trains run past the end of the garden and to him it was the most romantic sound in the world . |
24 | Segmentation is not an innovation in woodturning , and has been known for some time . |
25 | It has been known for some time that the majority of fibres from the left and right eyes converge upon single cells in the visual cortex of the cat and monkey ( Hubel and Wiesel , 1967 ) . |
26 | Though tragically killed in a recent motorbike accident , Madra was an undisputed maestro of the art , as well as an easy and informative friend whom I had known for some time , so it was a shock to witness the epic genius which came through him , and the transformation which both he and his audience underwent in that open village square the first time I saw him perform . |
27 | And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk . |
28 | These letters have been known for some time , as the aggrieved Leone published them in a pamphlet in 1764 . |
29 | Although the link between social deprivation and road accident casualty rates has been known for some time , the scale of the problem has not been assessed either nationally or locally . |
30 | ‘ Yes , I 've known for some time that if you want a bit of peace you only have to bore people enough and they 'll leave you to it . ’ |