Example sentences of "know [pron] for [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Funny is n't it how we meet people , how you can know them for ages then you just sort of talk to them , or once you start talking to them you realize that you 've got |
2 | Bought it , I do n't know one for sale now , you know , but for the price they are and for the rent it 's very reasonable . |
3 | says to Jim what if they get through do you know what for Wembley |
4 | You can know everything about a person , and know them for years , and still be miles away from them . |
5 | Substitution of I for E so instead of forget you know I for E So instead of saying forget you 'd say forgit . |
6 | I know you for dinner . |
7 | Here we might note that they are also not in Edinburgh : we know this for B because B claims to have to go to Edinburgh , and go here means movement away from the place of the speaker at the time of speaking ; we know it for A also , because if A is in Edinburgh , then B's having to go to Edinburgh can hardly be an excuse for B not going to A today . |
8 | ‘ I thought you 'd known them for years . |
9 | As a matter of fact the Tates are friends ; after all I 've known them for years . ’ |
10 | You 've known me for yonks . ’ |
11 | I 've known you for years . |
12 | I do n't know why , but I feel I 've known you for years . ’ |
13 | We have known her for years . ’ |
14 | Giancarlo took her arm courteously as if he had known her for years , and , followed by his guests , led her out of the sun on the terrace and into the shade at the side of the house . |
15 | ‘ Partly because I 've known him for years . |
16 | ‘ I 've known him for years . |
17 | He was a very easy person to talk to , and long before they reached home she felt as if she had known him for years . |
18 | Ask many who have known him for years , and they will say that he looks most comfortable at his annual visit to the Renaissance Weekend at Hilton Head Island over the New Year holiday . |
19 | I 've known him for years . |
20 | Known him for years , worked with him for years . |
21 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
22 | I 've known him for years . ’ |
23 | I 've known him for years . ’ |
24 | ‘ You 've known him for years … we 've even spent Christmas with his family ! ’ |
25 | It was true , it was true , it was true : secretly , instinctively , she had known it for weeks . |
26 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
27 | I knew her for months before she admitted , in a low voice , what her job was — as if she were some sort of traitor to society . |
28 | Harry Andrews , who knew him for years , said , ‘ When he 'd had a few drinks he could be noisy . |
29 | Knew him for years and years . |
30 | He knows them for folly , and has no patience with the little , grudging , timorous minds that made them . ’ |