Example sentences of "[verb] know for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although retired , Trevor continues to take an interest in the Stoddard Group as an agent for Lyles , keeping in touch with those he has known for many years .
2 Joan is Secretary to the Managing Director and Commercial Director and David , whom she has known for seven years , works with British Steel .
3 Among the flowers , a tribute from the hospital , to a nurse they 'd known for 5 years who 'll be deeply missed .
4 Pan Am , the third US carrier to cease operations in 1991 , was founded in 1927 and became known for expanding air routes to south America and pioneering US air travel to the Far East .
5 The French high command must also have known for some time , but hushed it up no doubt . ’
6 ‘ I doubt whether you could understand how it feels to know for all eternity that the creations of hell are pursuing you , ’ Kopyion said .
7 They quote an Under Secretary commenting upon informal communications networks : ‘ Some of these people I 've known for twenty-five years and we can of course communicate with each other almost in code . ’
8 ‘ We 've known for 23 years what the potential problems were but done little to solve them , ’ says Hinners .
9 ‘ Yes , I 've known for some time that if you want a bit of peace you only have to bore people enough and they 'll leave you to it . ’
10 Crosby in 1981 was a classic example : the voters lost a man they had known for thirty years and they did n't know who to vote for instead .
11 Wenger 's data show that 43 per cent of elderly people named as a confidant someone they had known for at least 50 years , and 75 per cent named someone they had known for 30 years .
12 The Special Branch had known for some weeks that he was in Germany .
13 He had known for some time that it was inevitable .
14 The mistake was made even more stupid by the fact that he had known for some time the big tides were due .
15 Though tragically killed in a recent motorbike accident , Madra was an undisputed maestro of the art , as well as an easy and informative friend whom I had known for some time , so it was a shock to witness the epic genius which came through him , and the transformation which both he and his audience underwent in that open village square the first time I saw him perform .
16 And it was n't Iris who told us , though she had known for some time that it had come through the Strait shortly after the Belgrano had been sunk .
17 ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life .
18 As the official investigation got under way , there were allegations that senior US officials had known for some time of BNL 's dealings with Iraq .
19 A few minutes later we were seated at a corner table in the small bistro which I had known for several years .
20 She was a woman he had known for several years now ; one with whom he had never slept ; one who half repelled , and ever half attracted him .
21 Doctors had known for 50 years about an enzyme that could dissolve the ligament without cutting .
22 I have known for many years , through long observation , that truth IS stranger than fiction .
23 Further study is necessarily being completed ; but the evidence of linkage between the simultaneous appearance of climatic phenomena in Kansas , Chad , Bihar and in the south — eastern Pacific Ocean suggests what all geographers have known for many years — that the globe works as one complete system , one vast interactive machine , and that the divisions man has forced upon it are no more than crudely artificial devices for our own intellectual convenience .
24 I am sure that my hon. and gallant Friend , whom I have known for many years and for whom I have a great affection , would agree that about half the best people are women .
25 He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity .
26 We in the childrens services have known for two years that something more must be done and we must pay our staff more .
27 Well , well the rest of the country are beginning to realise , what Leeds fans have known for three years .
28 We have known for twenty-five years that Einstein 's general theory of relativity predicts that time must have had a beginning in a singularity fifteen billion years ago .
29 John Rolfe , conference chairman , said : ‘ People within the industry have known for some time there is a need for such a gathering .
30 Scientists have known for some time that fusion reactions between nuclei of deuterium and tritium are more likely if the nuclear spins line up in the same direction .
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