Example sentences of "[vb past] know [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 One of the reasons for this preference may be that I first came to know it at Windrush .
2 ‘ I thought you 'd known them for years .
3 Cos they they did n't live far from me , I did know her by sight .
4 He was a very easy person to talk to , and long before they reached home she felt as if she had known him for years .
5 The appointment was all the more surprising within the Colonial Service where , contrary to common precedent , Macpherson had never been tried out as ‘ officer administering the government ’ ( OAG ) ; but those who had known him in Lagos a decade earlier at once recognized that they were getting the outstanding man of the Service .
6 It had to be a child , Coffin thought , and had n't Mrs Foster been Gilly Slee when he had known her at Hook Road School ?
7 Giancarlo took her arm courteously as if he had known her for years , and , followed by his guests , led her out of the sun on the terrace and into the shade at the side of the house .
8 His parents had known it as Andrássy after the Count who had been prime minister when that part of Pest was laid out .
9 It was true , it was true , it was true : secretly , instinctively , she had known it for weeks .
10 And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years .
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