Example sentences of "have know [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had achieved her purpose in being able to watch Angel grow , but often she was homesick for Clerkenwell and the friends she 'd known since childhood . |
| 2 | And he added , ‘ Ah wish Ah 'd known about coke when Ah was a kid . ’ |
| 3 | I was serious about acting in those days , but the hungrier I got the more my resolution sagged , until a guy I 'd known at college talked me into a job with the Defense Department . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If I 'd known in time , I would n't have . |
| 5 | I wish I 'd known in advance . |
| 6 | You 'd have to know in advance . |
| 7 | Law Report : Jury should not have known of co-defendant 's guilty plea : Regina v Mattison — Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) ( Lord Justice Mustill , Mr Justice Nolan and Mr Justice Saville ) , 5 October 1989 |
| 8 | ‘ Only close pals would have known of visit ’ |
| 9 | A bird pecking at food grains could have known without learning what food looks like , or it could have learnt it . |
| 10 | But she thanked the Lord that Reverend Morey had n't become a Governor sooner , for then everyone would have known about Angel , and James 's plump and prissy wife might have discovered her husband had fathered a bastard . |
| 11 | At this point I had one of those Proustian flashbacks about just such a place which I seemed to have known in childhood . |
| 12 | Now all we 've known of death |
| 13 | ‘ We 've known from day one and we 're resigned to it . ’ |
| 14 | UK Prime Minister John Major , whose critics claimed that he had known of fraud within BCCI when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1990 , announced on July 22 that Lord Justice Bingham would head an inquiry into the BCCI affair . |
| 15 | One of the younger adopted children she had known at school , a very charming and beautiful girl of Indian parentage , some years later made contact with her again , and they talked about fashions and make-up together . |
| 16 | The feelings retained their freshness in his memory : the delicious agony of watching her ; the frustration of not being able to touch her ; the pleasure he had when someone he had known at school passed along the towpath , looked up and saw him , Peter Redburn , having a drink with Kate Molland . |
| 17 | He was engulfed once more in an indescribable peace , and knew again , as he had known at dawn on the outskirts of Zweeloo , that he belonged to life , that the primal desire of man is to come into being , to achieve this peace . |
| 18 | She was late arriving at the restaurant where she had arranged to meet her friends , but they were women she had known since university days and were busy catching up on everyone else 's news . |
| 19 | She could remember Hamlet and the dates of important battles in the Revolutionary War and the names of Disney 's Seven Dwarfs and the telephone numbers of old boyfriends and the faces of people she had known in college but not seen in years and the deadlines for the three pieces she had been working on … |
| 20 | For the Archdeacon , who had , in fact , never seen the Venetian Lido , had been reared in the Close at Salisbury and , making some allowance for scale , had known from childhood exactly what a church should look like . |
| 21 | Sellers , therefore , have to know in detail where and when to sell and how to match their market intelligence with the planting cycle . |
| 22 | On the one side of the mind is the entire world we have known since childhood , and on the other , beyond curtains like the stars is eternity . |
| 23 | Arran I have known since childhood ; my hostess not only a friend but a colleague . |
| 24 | The wicked governments we have known throughout history are evidence of this . |
| 25 | The one-eyed porter whom I have known from childhood ; the station-master who ranges us all in ranks , beginning with the Duke and ending with a sad , frayed and literary man ; the little chaise in which the two old ladies from Barlton drive up to get their paper of an evening , the servant from the inn , the newsboy whose mother keeps a sweetshop — they are all my friends . |
| 26 | Richmond I have known from childhood as an incomparably pretty town , castle keep , sloping irregular polygonal square , houses and big pubs grouped round like something in a model . |
| 27 | It 's when it 's it 's known as word recognition . |
| 28 | It , that 's used in what 's known as fraud , yeah ? |
| 29 | After I did the course for two weeks I went down to a place in Ashford and I was in Ashford for twelve weeks , came back to Chelmsford , did another two weeks and then I was released as what 's known as probationer constable , a probationer constable . |
| 30 | And the first one I referred to fleetingly er last week , and it 's known as patch clamp , which most of you have come across before . |