Example sentences of "[noun prp] have know [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Lampi has known Emmett Chapman since he started playing music , and sees himself as the Stick 's embassador .
2 Of all his field agents Philpott had known Whitlock the longest , having personally recruited him for MIS at Oxford University .
3 No one I met in the Yukon had known Service , but there was still a highly commercial bar bearing the name — the Malamute Saloon .
4 It might have been a relief to confide in someone , to get another person 's opinion , especially as Richard had known Elise .
5 Handsome Gilbey has known Diana since she first moved to London as a teenager .
6 Ann Nalson has known Iain for years .
7 By the time she reached the fireplace , she was also beginning to wonder whether Maurice had known McKitrick was married .
8 This is probably the first time that someone who was acquainted with the central figure of such an enterprise has taken part in its creation : as if Tim Rice had known Eva Peron .
9 Celia had known Alan 's blood-group , and knew what it meant regarding Donna .
10 Iris has known Philippe for quite a long time .
11 Crilly has known Perry since early childhood .
12 Susan had known Hilda better than I had .
13 Colvin had known Burne-Jones , and was persuaded to write a preface for a London gallery show .
14 Doyle had known Jack Stone before the bank job that had sent Stone to earth , and it was Ray Doyle , not Bodie , who Stone ‘ trusted ’ , as much as he could ever trust anyone .
15 Elder Seth had known Gibbon , and apparently given the Englishman a few insights into the fragility of civilization .
16 Finney had known Harwood for a long time before finally working with him on the film of The Dresser .
17 She learned among many other things that Felicity had known Peter 's first wife quite well and admired her desperately as she struggled with her increasing disability and urged her husband to live as freely as he could .
18 Giancarlo Battista di Savognia had known Ludovico since he was a boy .
19 Pound had known Phyllis Bottome between 1905 and 1907 , when they were fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania , and it 's not clear whether it is that early association , or a period later when she had caught up with him in London , that Phyllis Bottome had in mind when she wrote of how Pound tried to transform her as a writer from a talented amateur into a professional :
20 Eliot had known Lawrence 's work for some time , but in 1931–2 he had grown particularly interested in that writer , whose ‘ travels to more primitive lands ’ and use of Mexican divinities in The Plumed Serpent were physical embodiment of Eliot 's anthropological reading and a likely reason for that title , After Strange Gods .
21 Anselm had known Hugh as papal legate in France when he was abbot of Bec , but his close association with him came at a moment when he was in a very perplexing situation .
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