Example sentences of "they have known " in BNC.
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| 1 | His kin are entrepreneurs , a wandering bourgeoisie : they have known what it is to be strangers in tight corners , as he himself is a stranger in this tight African town . |
| 2 | ‘ They have known that leaves will fall , and branches be blown across roads and berries go toxic , but what have they done ? |
| 3 | Just as well they have something else in common : they have known each other a long time , and are all good friends . |
| 4 | Quite apart from the practical problems of care , the family is faced with the sadness of coming to terms with change in a person they have known and probably loved all their life . |
| 5 | A lot of the pain and loss is felt when the parent they have known and loved becomes so altered . |
| 6 | It may be that they have been healed ; it may be that they have known the manifest presence of God as the church has drawn near to him in worship . |
| 7 | They have known divorce , bereavement , redundancy , accident , a broken home , abortion , illness , rejection , depression , uncertainty at certain points of their lives , perhaps before , perhaps since , conversion . |
| 8 | Their experience becomes increasingly alienated from the life they have known and loved . |
| 9 | They have known each other since they were children . ’ |
| 10 | He continued even more offensively : ‘ Since they have known that their condition was capable of improvement , their progress in useful knowledge has been rapid and uniform … |
| 11 | They have known Jesus as their Paraclete ( we will examine the meaning of the word in a moment ) during his ministry . |
| 12 | They have known each other since they were Division Three full-backs together , Taylor at Lincoln and Neal at Northampton . |