Example sentences of "[pers pn] knew for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I knew for a little while that would be true . |
| 2 | When Daine had first come to the City , he had — I knew for a fact — taken over a large proportion of the vice business that had been run by Paul Muni , a mobster whose empire had fallen thanks mainly to the investigative efforts and single-mindedness of — you guessed it — criminologist Claude Rains . |
| 3 | We both smiled , and I knew for a fact that she was n't Daine . |
| 4 | I knew for a start that there were more than a million Japanese there . |
| 5 | She knew for a fact that he had n't used a condom , so that meant he could n't get her pregnant . |
| 6 | You knew for a fact that anyone in that world was there for a genuine reason , either because he could n't get a job doing anything else — which was probably the best reason — or for the love of it . |
| 7 | He knew for a fact that they were innocent . |