Example sentences of "he had know [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In all the time he had know Joe , he had never seen anyone else in his room ; indeed he had never seen him in company , except at the meetings of the IRB .
2 as if he had known Doyle all his life .
3 Paul McBride , for Todd , 32 , of Hogarth Road , London , said that he had known Sim for a number of years and out of loyalty wanted to help him .
4 Bush might have spoken differently if he had known Clinton would be running in 1992 .
5 Speaking at his home last night , Mr Hall refused to say if he had known Timex had been planning to close the factory .
6 He was an elderly Scotsman , a man of the north , who had worked all his life in South London and was now near to retirement ; he had known Phyllis Henley for almost all of his career .
7 He had known Ruth since she was born .
8 He had known Nurse Jones for thirty years , she was an institution in the village .
9 The silver-framed photograph of Philippe Chaumont had appeared for the first time since he had known Chantal .
10 He had known North was seriously out of favour at the pentagon , but here was another glimpse into the pit .
11 It was hard to imagine he had known romance — and still had it in mind .
12 He had known Harry Lawrence since the fall of '88 .
13 And he had known peace , for a little while .
14 Of course he had known Rufus had this in mind , was three years through his time at medical school , had already considerable knowledge and nous — who could forget that ? — but somehow he had imagined that the same fate would have overtaken the others as had overtaken him , a deathly stultifying , an inhibition on all that was ambitious and of ascendant character , a remorseful withdrawing into the shade .
15 Bernie would always have it that he had known Malcolm since he was a mod in the sixties hanging out at — among other places — Eel Pie Island , where The Who and The Stones used to play .
16 He had known Sara all her life .
17 When I came into his life he had known Otto for about four years .
18 He had known Eliot since the First World War , and at that time and until the poet 's death in 1965 , he was seeing him frequently .
19 He told the court that he had known Paula for more than 25 years and married her to Eddie at his church in Moreton .
20 He told the court that he had known Paula for more than 25 years and married her to Eddie at his church in Moreton .
21 After all , he had known Ewen Mackay as a boy , and was aware of the reputation the latter had had even then .
22 He had known Elise only slightly and seemed to sense that Merrill did n't want to talk about her cousin , and he confined his conversation to holidays , recent travel and his work .
23 Caspar had crossed the room to stand at her side and he said , ‘ Sire — ’ And stopped in some confusion , because he had known Nuadu at once — he thought every person in Ireland would recognise him , for the wolfblood was unmistakable , and everyone knew the story of the Queen 's bastard wolfson and the fierce quarrels that had taken place between her and the King when Nuadu was born .
24 Mr Cubbage was by this time almost demented , he had to know Coleen 's decision , so he wrote an impassioned letter begging her to accept his proposal of marriage .
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