Example sentences of "[vb base] know for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I 've known for ages there was something going on .
2 Some of them are sons of friends I 've known for years .
3 People I 've known for years .
4 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 .
5 I 've known for years that I 'm as good a guest at a dinner party as I am a lousy host .
6 You 've known for years he was devious , and he 'd never actually fallen over himself to be nice to you , had he ?
7 People let their guard slip when they 're travelling ; they 'll tell you things they would n't say to a neighbour they 've known for years .
8 I 've known for months that … that what I feel for you is special , very special .
9 Geologists have known for decades about ‘ natural fission reactors ’ in very ancient rocks at Oklo in Gabon , West Africa .
10 The scientific world is beginning to discover what metaphysical teachers have known for centuries , that our world is not composed of any matter at all and that its basic component is a kind of energy or force .
11 The pits where the birds have buried their eggs are quite easy to spot — as human predators have known for centuries — by the slight mounds left by the birds at the surface .
12 But lay people can also make good directors — perhaps someone you have known for years , or , say , your house group leader .
13 It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre .
14 Veterinarians , horticulturists and environmental scientists have known for years that fluoride at very low concentrations can damage vegetation , aquatic life and livestock ; chemists have learnt to expect the unexpected from this unpredictable element ; and biochemists , physiologists and toxicologists all know that fluoride is a potent poison of enzymes .
15 I really enjoyed experimenting with the Utopia , although I would argue that while one company 's products are undoubtedly the most compatible from the technical standpoint they might not be the best combination for sound — something hi-fi buffs have known for years .
16 We have known for years that there are many wrecks which could be of historical value , telling us about the way in which vessels were constructed and , from their contents , about how ordinary people lived in times past .
17 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 !
18 Yet in being forced to come to the Commons to tidy up the mess — though splattering egg on the faces of the Foreign Office lawyers and his colleague Tristan Garel-Jones in the process — Hurd confirmed what a few MPs have known for months .
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