Example sentences of "have known for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Joan is Secretary to the Managing Director and Commercial Director and David , whom she has known for seven years , works with British Steel . |
| 3 | Among the flowers , a tribute from the hospital , to a nurse they 'd known for 5 years who 'll be deeply missed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The French high command must also have known for some time , but hushed it up no doubt . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We 've known for 23 years what the potential problems were but done little to solve them , ’ says Hinners . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Wilson , shut up in her own world all winter , was astonished to learn what everyone else in Florence had known for many a month — French troops had poured into Piedmont and 1848 was to be repeated all over again . |
| 10 | Crosby in 1981 was a classic example : the voters lost a man they had known for thirty years and they did n't know who to vote for instead . |
| 11 | Wenger 's data show that 43 per cent of elderly people named as a confidant someone they had known for at least 50 years , and 75 per cent named someone they had known for 30 years . |
| 12 | He had known for longer than he could remember . |
| 13 | He had known for some time that it was inevitable . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The mistake was made even more stupid by the fact that he had known for some time the big tides were due . |
| 16 | The Special Branch had known for some weeks that he was in Germany . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |
| 20 | As the official investigation got under way , there were allegations that senior US officials had known for some time of BNL 's dealings with Iraq . |
| 21 | A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years . |
| 22 | She was a woman he had known for several years now ; one with whom he had never slept ; one who half repelled , and ever half attracted him . |
| 23 | Doctors had known for 50 years about an enzyme that could dissolve the ligament without cutting . |
| 24 | I have known for many years , through long observation , that truth IS stranger than fiction . |
| 25 | Further study is necessarily being completed ; but the evidence of linkage between the simultaneous appearance of climatic phenomena in Kansas , Chad , Bihar and in the south — eastern Pacific Ocean suggests what all geographers have known for many years — that the globe works as one complete system , one vast interactive machine , and that the divisions man has forced upon it are no more than crudely artificial devices for our own intellectual convenience . |
| 26 | I am sure that my hon. and gallant Friend , whom I have known for many years and for whom I have a great affection , would agree that about half the best people are women . |
| 27 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
| 28 | We in the childrens services have known for two years that something more must be done and we must pay our staff more . |
| 29 | Well , well the rest of the country are beginning to realise , what Leeds fans have known for three years . |
| 30 | We have known for twenty-five years that Einstein 's general theory of relativity predicts that time must have had a beginning in a singularity fifteen billion years ago . |