Example sentences of "who have know [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Stych ate with all the avidity of one who has known starvation . |
| 2 | Rosalba closed her eyes , and beseeched heaven , not for the first time , ‘ Dear Lady , Lady who has known tears and cares and the love of God on earth , please help Serafina and give her lots of milk so she can make money and give her strength and stop people being unkind to her . |
| 3 | David Kindred , a columnist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution who has known Ali since his Louisville days , concluded that is most likely was n't him . |
| 4 | Novelist Graham Roos , 26 , who has known Antonia for eight years , said : ‘ She comes from a cosmopolitan background and she is quite sophisticated . |
| 5 | Brian Langley , who has known Suzanne since she was six , said : ‘ Things started going wrong when her mum left . |
| 6 | As James Gilbey , a member of the distilling dynasty who has known Diana since she was 17 , noted : ‘ She said to me recently that she had n't made any date in her diary past July because she does n't think she is going to be there . ’ |
| 7 | Lighting and setting are by Robert Cohan ( who has known war experience ) and there 's no doubt of the work 's deep sincerity and compassion for the American soldiers of its cast . |
| 8 | That evening , Philip , an ex-Merchant Taylors boy who has known Iain since prep school , is at home in his room when his mum calls him to the phone . |
| 9 | Imbert , who has known Moore 's daughter Mary since 1985 , has spent three years working in collaboration with her to organise the exhibition which , in its latter phases , has employed a team of forty people . |
| 10 | The apostles , the folk who had known Jesus in the old days in Galilee , Stephen , Paul ; all are ‘ witnesses of these things ; and so is the Holy Spirit whom God had given to those who obey him ’ ( Acts 5:32 ) . |
| 11 | It would have seemed strange to those who had known Nigel in his early days as a conscientious objector to find him cheering the prime minister through the Falklands War . |
| 12 | The libretto , which had been lying in his drawer for years , had been written by a M. Frontenac , who had known Alain-Fournier personally , and had been under the spell of his novel since it first appeared in 1913 . |
| 13 | After the appeal in Air Mail , Mrs Marsden had calls from men who had known members of the crew . |
| 14 | The questioning was being done by an older detective , Sergeant Jimmy Thackeray , who had known Terry Place well at one time . |
| 15 | Those who had known Michael Holly at his home in the south-east of England , or had shared office and canteen space with him at the factory on the Kent fringes of London , might not now have recognized their man . |
| 16 | The best she could manage was to imagine him to be a person who had known Ewan well . |
| 17 | About 130 ad Papias of Hierapolis in Asia Minor recorded traditions about the authorship of the gospels of Matthew and Mark , but also knew a story about Jesus found in the non-canonical ‘ Gospel according to the Hebrews ’ and was quite convinced that the mind of Jesus was captured less from written books than from the oral teaching of those seniors who had known apostles personally . |
| 18 | It appeared that Mr Rochester , who had known Adèle and her mother very well , had brought Adèle back to England to live with him after her mother had died . |
| 19 | I felt relief that someone who had known Marie Claire for so long should share my opinion of her . |
| 20 | Ironically , in the midst of the education controversy of 1902 , the Prime Minister , A. J. Balfour , who had known Thomas at Cambridge , singled him out amongst his opponents as ‘ a gentleman aiming at fairness ’ . |
| 21 | Just as Goscelin claims to have listened to a monk who had known St Wulfsige of Sherborne ( d. 1002 ) , Osbern of Canterbury says that as a boy he heard an account of the translation of the relics of St Ælfheah in 1023 from a monk who was involved in it . |
| 22 | The greatest wild-flower expert in this country is Dr Miriam Rothschild , who had known Charles since he was a child , and was also a friend of Mollie Salisbury . |
| 23 | Rose knew Ted in this mood : he remembered that he was the son of a man who had been dresser to George Robey , and grandson of a woman who had known Crippen . |
| 24 | Here the key personages were the secretary , until 1864 Mocquard , who had known Queen Hortense , and Thélin , former valet of the Prince , who had shared his imprisonment at Ham . |
| 25 | ‘ Those of you who have known slavery , remember the life you led then ! |
| 26 | The Committee considers that " true education " is most readily and completely available through the works of English literature , while also emphasizing its difference from mere " book learning " : " Books are not things in themselves , they are merely the instruments through which we hear the voices of those who have known life better than ourselves " . |