Example sentences of "known it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ? |
| 2 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 3 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 4 | It was true , it was true , it was true : secretly , instinctively , she had known it for weeks . |
| 5 | Seemed to think I should have known it for myself . |
| 6 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
| 7 | Maxim would have known it for a British government office no matter where in the world he met it : small neon-lit with a hodge-podge of cheap furniture and painted to look scruffy even when it was surgically dean . |
| 8 | Teachers no doubt have suspected it , and maybe known it for themselves , but it is a fact that a large number of children at present leave school at sixteen knowing less mathematics than when they entered at eleven . |