Example sentences of "have know for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is documented in the book is what everyone in sport has known for years — that the use of steroids has been widespread in many sports since the sixties . |
| 2 | They 'd known for weeks and stayed by me , anxious when I was out of sight , whining in the daytime when they never used to . |
| 3 | Surely there was no harm in this , just sitting here in her car with David Markham , a man whom after all , she 'd known for years . |
| 4 | They must have known for weeks . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've known for ages there was something going on . |
| 6 | Some of them are sons of friends I 've known for years . |
| 7 | People I 've known for years . |
| 8 | On this first video , Mr Colbeck guides you gently through the workings of an array of popular home studio gear ( including the Fostex X28 four-track cassette recorder and the Alesis Quadraverb ) with the friendly manner of a family doctor you 've known for years . |
| 9 | I 've known for years that I 'm as good a guest at a dinner party as I am a lousy host . |
| 10 | You 've known for years he was devious , and he 'd never actually fallen over himself to be nice to you , had he ? |
| 11 | People let their guard slip when they 're travelling ; they 'll tell you things they would n't say to a neighbour they 've known for years . |
| 12 | I 've known for months that … that what I feel for you is special , very special . |
| 13 | Anne Nielson was an extraordinary woman , as he had known for years . |
| 14 | In view of my evident misery , both at the onset and towards the end of the disease , the two statements may at first seem irreconcilable : I was desperately unhappy and had known for years that death can put an end to everything , including unhappiness . |
| 15 | Ted Power , a fine collector , whom I had known for years and who had seen odd paintings in mixed shows wanted to buy something . |
| 16 | on long , summer evenings ) and quite another to go up to a girl , even one I had known for years and actually do such a thing . |
| 17 | He realized afterwards that he had known for years , that there were a hundred fine details that he had chosen to ignore about her behaviour , her phone conversations , the times of her comings and goings . |
| 18 | On the other hand , he said ID cards were ridiculous and confirmed what fans had known for years that they were ill- treated by uncaring clubs who were allowing grounds to fall into disrepair . |
| 19 | When my father arrived in Abyssinia in mid-December 1909 to take up his post as British Minister in charge of the Legation , the Emperor Menelik , the greatest ruler the country had known for centuries , was reported to be still alive ; but no one knew for certain , and all men asked what would happen when he died . |
| 20 | Geologists have known for decades about ‘ natural fission reactors ’ in very ancient rocks at Oklo in Gabon , West Africa . |
| 21 | The scientific world is beginning to discover what metaphysical teachers have known for centuries , that our world is not composed of any matter at all and that its basic component is a kind of energy or force . |
| 22 | The pits where the birds have buried their eggs are quite easy to spot — as human predators have known for centuries — by the slight mounds left by the birds at the surface . |
| 23 | But lay people can also make good directors — perhaps someone you have known for years , or , say , your house group leader . |
| 24 | It 's only in the last few years that everyone has begun talking seriously about fibre in diet , although those who have always eaten a breakfast that includes all-bran have known for years about the virtues of fibre . |
| 25 | Veterinarians , horticulturists and environmental scientists have known for years that fluoride at very low concentrations can damage vegetation , aquatic life and livestock ; chemists have learnt to expect the unexpected from this unpredictable element ; and biochemists , physiologists and toxicologists all know that fluoride is a potent poison of enzymes . |
| 26 | I really enjoyed experimenting with the Utopia , although I would argue that while one company 's products are undoubtedly the most compatible from the technical standpoint they might not be the best combination for sound — something hi-fi buffs have known for years . |
| 27 | We have known for years that there are many wrecks which could be of historical value , telling us about the way in which vessels were constructed and , from their contents , about how ordinary people lived in times past . |
| 28 | The said partnership is for economic strategy planning and they have current consultancy projects in what was the USSR , and the one of the three I have known for years , as he shared a Lothian Regional council office with our former upstairs neighbour , lovely now in lake district is off to Moscow next Monday and then to another city ( ? sp ) six thousand miles east of Moscow ! |
| 29 | Yet in being forced to come to the Commons to tidy up the mess — though splattering egg on the faces of the Foreign Office lawyers and his colleague Tristan Garel-Jones in the process — Hurd confirmed what a few MPs have known for months . |
| 30 | but this chap he 's known for years |