Example sentences of "they had know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Left watched those they had known as leaders of the 1917 revolution admit to being " fascist agents " , and to " habitual and base betrayal of military secrets to a certain hostile fascist power " . |
| 2 | The men in the group will have to cope with this sudden change of plan as if they had known about it all along . |
| 3 | Perhaps , too , if they had known about his ‘ tastes ’ , his friends would have been less puzzled by two of his most mysterious personality traits : his delight in verbal bullying , of students or intellectual opponents , and his apparently cheerful domestic enslavement to Mrs Moore . |
| 4 | They had known about Charlotte 's book for a long time . |
| 5 | But Floy was still sickened ; he remembered how on Renascia they had tried to follow what they had known of the Earth-people 's death rituals and how they had had the large , austere Firehouse with the ornate bronze lamps which were always kept burning in memory of those who had died . |
| 6 | Crosby in 1981 was a classic example : the voters lost a man they had known for thirty years and they did n't know who to vote for instead . |
| 7 | Wenger 's data show that 43 per cent of elderly people named as a confidant someone they had known for at least 50 years , and 75 per cent named someone they had known for 30 years . |
| 8 | Wenger 's data show that 43 per cent of elderly people named as a confidant someone they had known for at least 50 years , and 75 per cent named someone they had known for 30 years . |
| 9 | as if they had known to the minute the time of Rachaela 's arrival . |
| 10 | In most cases , the environments , climates and conditions they encountered must have been very different from what they had known in Ayrshire . |
| 11 | There was nothing left of the friendship they had known in Barnswick . |