Example sentences of "have known " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it seems to me that there is something a little perverse in leaving me your notes on the making of the Big Glass when you must have known perfectly well that they contained material I would be certain to find offensive . |
| 2 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I want simply to tell you that work on your notes connected with the Big Glass is at last under way and that I have remained scholarly and impartial throughout what has not been an easy task , in view of what you say about me and especially about my family , and which you must have known would give offense . |
| 3 | ‘ I might have known it , ’ said the old lady , ‘ Vivien 's such a naughty boy ! ’ |
| 4 | I should have known better . |
| 5 | Ma was always at her most unreasonable on do-days , and I must have known it was a do-day because not only did we have extra help in the house , but Nanny had been co-opted into the kitchen to make pastry . |
| 6 | I did not , to be honest , think I would have much success — it 's not the sort of thing that I would have known all those years ago — but the idea of ringing up a few of my former colleagues was just irresistible . |
| 7 | I should have known better , but we are learning now . |
| 8 | ‘ But you could not have known it was us . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I might have known it was you . |
| 10 | He had give his name as E. Thomas Reardon and it turned out to be a pseudonym , so cheques left on the mantel were useless , and he must have known that they would be . |
| 11 | It seems obvious she must have known it was the fermer but he wished she had said so , after all this remained his city . |
| 12 | ‘ They must have known that leases were in the pipeline but no one said anything to me . ’ |
| 13 | Benskins increased his rent by £6,000 last year and John is convinced they must have known then that leases policy . |
| 14 | We must all have known home undergraduates who have worked very hard on an English course , who may be ambitious to do well , and who still , to their intense disappointment , end up doing badly . |
| 15 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |
| 16 | The Government must have known it was coming again , yet has done absolutely nothing to prevent the side-effects . |
| 17 | The situation was further confused because the rebels were led by Major Giroldi , whose battalion is charged with guarding the barracks and who presumably should have known whether the general was inside . |
| 18 | Law Report : Jury should not have known of co-defendant 's guilty plea : Regina v Mattison — Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) ( Lord Justice Mustill , Mr Justice Nolan and Mr Justice Saville ) , 5 October 1989 |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't even back her under my name , so I do n't understand how they could have known . ’ |
| 20 | At T/Sgt John E Smith wrote : ‘ You would n't have known these ladies served as mechanics and armourers in the Women 's Royal Air Force beginning 52 years ago by the way they climbed up and the down the stairs at the control tower or scrambled up to the cockpit of an F-16 ’ . |
| 21 | He had scarcely known Maggie , could not have known that he could not have chosen a better treat than this mysterious park , with its vast statues carved out of the living rock : the huge-mouthed cave with its mighty teeth , the vast stone giant , his shoulders visible through bushes a hundred yards away , half hidden in greenery ; and above all , the great carved stone dragon with its broken wings , and wild Chinese eyes . |
| 22 | All this about Fenna was entirely true , but she would not have said it , would not have known how to shape such sentences . |
| 23 | Phoebe , in fairness , could not have known that the maths teacher , shamed in public , should take to hating Maggie with a spiteful glee , though she would probably not have cared if she had . |
| 24 | Even if it was the last thing she was ever able to do , Phoebe would have known it , and would have to notice her now . |
| 25 | ‘ We should have known better , ’ came the exasperated response . |
| 26 | Yamazaki seems unconcerned by the fact that he 's taking on problems that have defeated many who should have known better . |
| 27 | He had lately come to live in a village called Eynsham , near Oxford , he was a D.Litt. of his old university , and all this Lewis must have known . |
| 28 | One would have assumed that as two classicists , Punch contributors and men of letters of an old-fashioned Christian temper , Lewis and Knox would have known each other for years . |
| 29 | They could not have known whether it would be prejudicial to the administration of justice if the facts were made public . |
| 30 | YOU would never have known that Klaus Tennstedt had been ill in his life . |