Example sentences of "[pers pn] knew it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I knew it for a bird at once . ’ |
| 2 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 3 | She knew it for a fact . |
| 4 | Then she knew it for what it was . |
| 5 | She had not yet even recognised what it was , but she knew it for better worth than she had ever yet been given . |
| 6 | Harry Martin was behind all this , and , although she had n't a hope of proving it , she knew it for a fact . |
| 7 | And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’ |
| 8 | You knew it for a fact . |
| 9 | But now they knew it for what it was . |
| 10 | He knew it for a certainty . |
| 11 | The cold was within his heart now , and he knew it for the heartcold of the truly bereft . |
| 12 | It poured out into the still night and Nuadu shivered , because he knew it for the evil magic of the Dark Ireland ; the ancient , malevolent enchantment of the necromancers . |