Example sentences of "known [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've known them fitted with steel screws which rust in , making it necessary to break the china away and remove the screws later with a pair of Molegrips . |
| 2 | Hedgehogs have neither the speed nor the manoeuvrability to catch rabbits but I have known them to kill the young in a stop , gaining entrance during the times when the doe has left the stop unsealed just before the young rabbits are moved out . |
| 3 | Well that 's the first time I 've known them go down there . |
| 4 | I 've never known them change their minds before . |
| 5 | ( 118 ) I 've known them to strike their children in front of visitors . |
| 6 | Three pound fifteen shillings yeah and that 's how , that 's how the work went at that time but as I say these boatmen erm they used t they used to sit down on lock gates day in and day out and did n't have a ship to come in but I 've kno kno known them to row down the river at high tide or it 's before high tide and there 'd be another erm , there 'd be other boatmen there , one was called , he went down , he used to go down and get 'em going , there used to be a race between these two families or the and the first one got the boat , the first one roped it in you see , or wh what we call roping in , moor mooring the ship up , that was |
| 7 | Well I 've never known them do that before have you ? |
| 8 | And have you ever known me to miss before ? |
| 9 | The crowd came together again and hid Filmer and his flower and I felt the tension in my muscles subside , and realized I had n't known I had tensed them . |
| 10 | To have funked it , and then known I had let him off lightly , would have cost me even more sleepless nights . |
| 11 | ‘ If I had been sensible , Alexandra , I should have known I had no chance . |
| 12 | ‘ Charlie Trumper , ’ I told her with pride , though if the truth be known I had n't expected her to have heard of him . |
| 13 | And I 've I 've known I 've heard of the Glen Islan m men would walk out the hill to the market of Braemar , the Castletown market they used to say , likely going there for sheep or something , I do n't know that was beyond my stories . |
| 14 | But then that funny copper , Malpass , had known I 'd been out front on Sunday . |
| 15 | Well if I 'd known I 'd gone down there . |
| 16 | ‘ No , I do n't know ; he might have known I suppose , but I do n't think so . ’ |
| 17 | The circumstances being what they were , Richard must have known I did not , but since he knew almost nothing about me except that I was willing , he could hardly have been expected to care . |
| 18 | ‘ You should have known I did not mean it , ’ complained the old lady in a fretful tone . |
| 19 | ‘ He should have known I did n't mean the things I said , ’ Bertha had persisted stubbornly . |
| 20 | And she said , but I 've always known I did that . |
| 21 | I 've loved you since August , and I 've known I loved you — and what I wanted to do about it — since the day after Christmas . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Would n't have known you if'n I passed you in the street , ’ she said , ‘ 'cepting those eyes of yourn . |
| 23 | ‘ I might have known — I might have known you had n't got over it . |
| 24 | in fact if I 'd known you had n't got one , the one we had before , oh know it 's not got a tape on though , but you 've got a record player have n't you ? yes |
| 25 | ‘ I would n't have known you 'd been in computers . ’ |
| 26 | But I wish I 'd known you 'd given orders that you did n't want to be moved to hospital . ’ |
| 27 | A lot of the labs are finding physical phenomena that are already well known , so if you 're just validating facts that are already known you know they 're wrong because your answers do n't tally with the answers in the textbook . |
| 28 | Good God , I 've known you long enough and why the hell have my knees decided to take their annual vacation at this precise moment ? |
| 29 | ‘ I 've also never known you to shout at me , ’ she said quietly . |
| 30 | If I 'd known you did n't , I 'd have tried a different way … |