Example sentences of "have known " in BNC.
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| 1 | His friend Razumikhin , a truthful witness , has known him for eighteen months . |
| 2 | Colin Barnes , the fashion illustrator , who has known her since St Martin 's , says , ‘ Of course outspoken people tread on toes , but they are often the ones who make waves and achieve something . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Fisher ’ , he said , ‘ was my headmaster and he has known ail my deficiencies for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | A university , as Western civilisation has known a university , is an institution which is peculiar in a precise and definable way . |
| 5 | Not the first words spoken , but from before the surfacing of memory she has known this . |
| 6 | Yes , he says , he has known it a little worse , but not much . |
| 7 | Alison , who runs a company specialising in marketing travel and tourism , has known Nick , an architect , for about 12 years , but they did n't get together until he became her lodger . |
| 8 | Lighting and setting are by Robert Cohan ( who has known war experience ) and there 's no doubt of the work 's deep sincerity and compassion for the American soldiers of its cast . |
| 9 | In recent years the FIS has known nothing like it . |
| 10 | If he is not the greatest gloveman the game has known , he is a very successful wicket-keeper-batsman ; in his first two Tests in Australia in 1981–2 he appeared solely as a batsman before taking over from David Murray , and by the end of the 1989–90 series he had played in 68 Tests , made 223 dismissals ( a miserly five stumpings tells a sad tale ) and scored almost 3,000 runs at an average of 35 with five centuries . |
| 11 | Since things returned to normal , he and Gordon Greenidge have formed the most prolific opening partnership Test cricket has known ; before the series they had opened the innings over 120 times , about twice as many as any other Test first-wicket partnership , although they had produced only thirteen century partnerships . |
| 12 | David Kindred , a columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution who has known Ali since his Louisville days , concluded that is most likely was n't him . |
| 13 | Their humour did not consist of mere jokes ( though they could make those too ) but in their whole attitude to life , as the violin runs through the Benedictus of the Missa Solemnis like a golden thread from which all else rises and falls ; an unforced humour which has known tragedy , and learnt to surmount it . |
| 14 | He has known no want either materially or of a mother 's love for you have supplied both abundantly and he will be reminded of this all his life you can be sure . |
| 15 | He may be ill from the voyage , he may be homesick for the only home he has known , he may be … ’ |
| 16 | There was no doubting her sister 's passion as she struggled to express her resentment , writing : — on my life Lily I declare I want only what is best for the child and would not be Cruel to him nor the cause of Cruelty and what you asked was Cruel the child knowing no Italian and being Fearful of leaving me the only Mother he has known and who he loves as his own . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | Twenty years doing two shows a month , of a tiny range of parts which she has known inside-out for years — it 's a miracle her creative spirit survives at all . |
| 20 | The rigours of the most demanding season the game has known were etched on Moore 's face . |
| 21 | She , lately returned from India , has known much sorrow and can instantly understand this love when she eventually suspects it . |
| 22 | The bishops ' letter has shown the possibility of open dissent to a population that since independence has known nothing but calm . |
| 23 | Because of debts they are often forced to sell their land and therefore lose the means of livelihood that their family has known and understood over the generations . |
| 24 | Over 2,500 people marched through the centre of Truro in protest , still one of the biggest public demonstrations the area has known . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Being examined by half a dozen people , half of whom one has known extremely well , is what Margaret Mead , the anthropologist , would have termed a ‘ bizarre group situation ’ . |
| 28 | Indeed , it could represent the worst environmental disaster that Western Europe has known this century . |
| 29 | Under his ownership , Craigie Mains went from strength to strength and soon he became the most prolific prize-winning owner the Clydesdale Society has known . |
| 30 | Fordham was both honest and realistic enough to concede that the most severe examination of his outlook possibly still awaited him — to date , his career has known no period of prolonged failure and the misery this can induce . |