Example sentences of "know [pers pn] 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 | You can know everything about a person , and know them for years , and still be miles away from them . |
| 3 | Substitution of I for E so instead of forget you know I for E So instead of saying forget you 'd say forgit . |
| 4 | I know you for dinner . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I thought you 'd known them for years . |
| 7 | As a matter of fact the Tates are friends ; after all I 've known them for years . ’ |
| 8 | You 've known me for yonks . ’ |
| 9 | I 've known you for years . |
| 10 | I do n't know why , but I feel I 've known you for years . ’ |
| 11 | We have known her for years . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Partly because I 've known him for years . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've known him for years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I 've known him for years . |
| 18 | Known him for years , worked with him for years . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I 've known him for years . ’ |
| 21 | I 've known him for years . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 've known him for years … we 've even spent Christmas with his family ! ’ |
| 23 | It was true , it was true , it was true : secretly , instinctively , she had known it for weeks . |
| 24 | And yet they were writing about the same place , and both of them knew it intimately , and had known it for years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Harry Andrews , who knew him for years , said , ‘ When he 'd had a few drinks he could be noisy . |
| 27 | Knew him for years and years . |
| 28 | He knows them for folly , and has no patience with the little , grudging , timorous minds that made them . ’ |