Example sentences of "[pron] have know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gioella is the sort of person everyone has known for ever . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years . |
| 6 | Ted Power , a fine collector , whom I had known for years and who had seen odd paintings in mixed shows wanted to buy something . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | on long , summer evenings ) and quite another to go up to a girl , even one I had known for years and actually do such a thing . |
| 9 | Some of them are sons of friends I 've known for years . |
| 10 | People I 've known for years . |
| 11 | I had the result this afternoon , but I 've known for a few weeks , really . |
| 12 | I 've known for months that … that what I feel for you is special , very special . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 15 | I 've known for years that I 'm as good a guest at a dinner party as I am a lousy host . |
| 16 | Erm I can personally testify that the , the award winner that this year is somebody that I 've known for something like twenty six , twenty seven years . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've known for ages there was something going on . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , it 's all right , ’ as she registered the look of shock in Lindsey 's eyes , ‘ I 've known for quite some time . |
| 19 | Well , there was a time when it was a bolt from the blue , yes , I mean I 've known for a week or two , but we were delighted to receive it , er we do n't er , it is something that we said months ago that we supported the N H S Lottery because we do feel that money can be raised in this way painlessly towards particularly research and the sorts of things that the N H S on the whole has never really supported fully . |
| 20 | In the village I have known for the last 10 years , they openly regret that things were better under Marcos . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I have known for many years , through long observation , that truth IS stranger than fiction . |
| 23 | The said partnership is for economic strategy planning and they have current consultancy projects in what was the USSR , and the one of the three I have known for years , as he shared a Lothian Regional council office with our former upstairs neighbour , lovely now in lake district is off to Moscow next Monday and then to another city ( ? sp ) six thousand miles east of Moscow ! |
| 24 | All I know is what I have known for the past two years : there is no reason at all for the blindness . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Joan is Secretary to the Managing Director and Commercial Director and David , whom she has known for seven years , works with British Steel . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |