Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] know for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I do know for sure is that I woke up loving him . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't think you will , ’ said the Brownie Guider , ‘ but I do know for certain that you faced what to you was great danger with wonderful bravery . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , I 've known for some time that if you want a bit of peace you only have to bore people enough and they 'll leave you to it . ’ |
| 4 | They quote an Under Secretary commenting upon informal communications networks : ‘ Some of these people I 've known for twenty-five years and we can of course communicate with each other almost in code . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I need to know for certain whether the Romanians do have him . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah , but I need to know for sure , you see , because I have some doubts , and before you ask me why I should be so concerned I will assure you that this time it is partly for my own self-esteem that I would like to know . ’ |
| 7 | I have known for many years , through long observation , that truth IS stranger than fiction . |
| 8 | I am sure that my hon. and gallant Friend , whom I have known for many years and for whom I have a great affection , would agree that about half the best people are women . |
| 9 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
| 10 | I am delighted to have heard anything worthwhile by Schillings , whose music I have known for some time in piano-vocal scores but have not encountered in performance . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've known for 23 years what the potential problems were but done little to solve them , ’ says Hinners . |
| 12 | The Major , a close confidant of the Princess , added : ‘ We have known for some time that some very senior members of the IOC have the knives out for our sport . |
| 13 | We have known for some time that this can not have been the case . |
| 14 | ‘ The decision to print elsewhere was a commercial one , for we have known for some time that the quality of our printing of newspapers leaves a lot to be desired , while our commercial printing side is first class . |
| 15 | We have known for twenty-five years that Einstein 's general theory of relativity predicts that time must have had a beginning in a singularity fifteen billion years ago . |
| 16 | We need to know for certain that if a person were to suffer in this way , the care will be there for them . |