Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I long for Anglican churches to be more confident in their expression of the Good News . |
| 2 | Since time is something I do n't have too much of these days I look for other solutions like hats , turbans , scarves or wigs and pieces . |
| 3 | I look for certain features , like the floor . |
| 4 | I have one or two such places up my sleeve which I save for difficult days but I do n't spoil it by going to them too often . |
| 5 | It was still dark , that 's all I know for certain . |
| 6 | ‘ Tomorrow morning , ’ he said , ‘ I have to make my closing speech in defence of a man who is on a murder charge , and whom I know for certain to be innocent . |
| 7 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |
| 8 | I know for certain that your giving me Michel 's address will make a very great difference to the two of them . |
| 9 | Then you begin to get big ; after that , I know for certain . " |
| 10 | ‘ All I know for certain is that Sabine Jourdain had a row with a man on board the Jonquil before she was taken dead from the water , and that man was Tarquin Poulteney-Crosse . ’ |
| 11 | I shall simply remain here until I know for certain what my situation really is . ’ |
| 12 | Belief … may be said to be the state of mind of a person who says to himself : " I can not say I know for certain that these goods are stolen , but there can be no other reasonable conclusion in the light of circumstances … |
| 13 | I know for certain it 's in here somewhere . |
| 14 | I know for sure if he had n't been on the scene and it was only Colonel Vaughan and myself , I would most likely have said . |
| 15 | All I know for sure , sir , is that we have a mysterious plane lying on the sea-bed there . |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't live like that — not now I know for sure . |
| 17 | When I am lying with him , and he is inside me — that is the moment I know for sure . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I ca n't do that unless I know for sure , can I ? ’ shrieked Felicity . |
| 19 | I know for sure it will be a feast — it always is when we 're together . |
| 20 | So now I always and so I , I 'm thinking that it might be that , that I that erm maybe you know like I used to be anxious about something like that and I used to wake up and the dream used to happen , but now that I 've double checked that I know for sure that , that I 'm safe you know for the night it does n't happen any more by cutting off possibility |
| 21 | Finally she admitted , ‘ The last time I know for sure it was there was this morning when I was in Signor Diomede 's office . ’ |
| 22 | All I know for definite is he lives down in Armagh , not so far from Newry , in the hills . |
| 23 | I have to say that I know for definite that the force at that time only possessed two shields , er we kept one shield in the South of the county at and one shield North of the county and and hence that is why I went to the headquarters in the morning . |
| 24 | If I ask for extra to buy baby clothes , he says he does n't have the spare cash . |
| 25 | Therefore , I ask for brief questions , please , to the Chancellor of the Exchequer so that as many hon. Members as possible may be called . |
| 26 | Because I t I go for verbal as the actual choice of words , okay ? |
| 27 | I think I go for clichéd solos in a way . |
| 28 | I personally use a .013-.056 gauge on all the acoustics and all the electrics with the exception of the Firebird , which I use for regular flatpicking in standard Spanish tuning , and that one has much lighter strings on it — an .009 set but with an .011 on the top E. ’ |
| 29 | But I have different slides I use for different things . |
| 30 | I think perhaps it is the cocaine I keep for medical purposes , pure , straight cocaine . |