Example sentences of "know [pron] for [noun pl] " 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 | You can know everything about a person , and know them for years , and still be miles away from them . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought you 'd known them for years . |
| 4 | As a matter of fact the Tates are friends ; after all I 've known them for years . ’ |
| 5 | I 've known you for years . |
| 6 | I do n't know why , but I feel I 've known you for years . ’ |
| 7 | We have known her for years . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Partly because I 've known him for years . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've known him for years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I 've known him for years . |
| 14 | Known him for years , worked with him for years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I 've known him for years . ’ |
| 17 | I 've known him for years . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You 've known him for years … we 've even spent Christmas with his family ! ’ |
| 19 | It was true , it was true , it was true : secretly , instinctively , she had known it for weeks . |
| 20 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Harry Andrews , who knew him for years , said , ‘ When he 'd had a few drinks he could be noisy . |
| 23 | Knew him for years and years . |