Example sentences of "[conj] i have know " in BNC.
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1 | I really ca n't answer for David because in all the years that I 've known him , I always actually found him a rather cold person , even when I was 14 and he was 16 , even as boy and girlfriend . |
2 | I thought Alan Bowness , former director of the Tate , was a very good man , but I ca n't say that I 've known intimately very many of the museum people either in England or in the States . |
3 | There 's only one girl of my age that I 've known who 's on the cap . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | He shrugged , then muttered , ‘ Only the fact that I 've known women to break their word . ’ |
6 | He said : ‘ I 'm here to learn about the situation on the ground beyond things that I 've known from previous trips and a long-term study of the issues . |
7 | And because he was sad , I put my hand on his shoulder , told him that I 'd known Billy to be a good little man ; funny , brave . |
8 | Through the years that I 'd known him , I 'd watched him grow in mind and body and now felt a twinge of pride that he had grown so well . |
9 | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives . |
10 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
11 | It was the longest afternoon that I had known and it was worse when I heard the sound of tea being prepared downstairs for this made me even more hungry . |
12 | It was the end of my time in the Caribbean , of the sheltered , warm , family life that I had known there , and the beginning of a new and exciting era . |
13 | Halema turned to the Sheikha who said that I had known her well . |
14 | His anger was unlike any other that I had known . |
15 | People that I have known through the years in the music business always knew where to find me and I never moved address . |
16 | It is so simple that I have known clever men misunderstand it completely , thinking that there must be more to it ! |
17 | Commenting on her selection , Sue Baring said : ‘ I 'm delighted to have been chosen to stand in a part of the country that I have known and loved for many years . |
18 | People do n't seem to look at other people , whereas in the towns and villages in the north that I have known the locals will bid you good day or smile as you go in and out of shops or even just crossing the street . |
19 | ‘ I certify that I have known Colour Serjeant William Nicholl late of the 8th ( or King 's ) Regiment for the space of ten years , six of which I belonged to the same Company and always considered him a man of most exemplary character . |
20 | But be the usual selves that I have known |
21 | Is it surprising that in respect of foreign affairs this is the most ill-informed House of Commons that I have known in my 30 years here ? |
22 | ‘ Not only do I find you quite extraordinarily beautiful , but I also feel that I have known you all my life . |
23 | And yet , when I came to know my associates , a far greater intimacy and sense of comradeship developed than I had known with any but my closest friends at school or university . |
24 | I could n't believe that anyone could love me and a lady equally , although I 've had a lot of experiences since and I 've known a lot of men and a lot of women since who have loved both sexes . |
25 | And … and I 've known that for a long time . ’ |
26 | ‘ This is a young side and I 've known them for four years and watched them mature and get stronger . |
27 | She stood up to your mother , and I 've known very few people who have had the pluck to do it . " |
28 | They 're not doing this or that but in lots of cases , and I 've known of lots of cases where children just do n't want to know ! |
29 | Well I know in one terrace alone in Street , Street used to have three big bonfires in this two hundred yards and I 've known one terrace , Terrace to have as many as twenty mattresses you know piled on the street ready for , and the big lad the bigger lads used to , to get the props get somebody 's prop and stoke the fire up and put the mattresses on . |
30 | No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that . |