Example sentences of "know [pers pn] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But Mr Major said that if he tried to be a Tory tough the public would know him for a phoney .
2 You have friends who know you for the man you are , and do not have to conceal your TRUE NATURE .
3 Moving her just a fraction away , his eyes once more holding hers captive , he added , ‘ So is n't it fortunate that I know you for the cheat you are ? ’
4 He shall feel the ground give under him , if only once , he shall fall , and men shall see him fall , and know him for a man like other men .
5 Know it for the madhouse it is .
6 We 've known them for a while , they 've been travelling to games solidly for years and are better fans on that score than I 've ever been .
7 I had known him for a number of years .
8 How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ?
9 I spoke to myself and I did n't listen : meaningless words on deaf ears , although they were true , and whoever I was meant them , and whoever I was speaking to knew them for the truth .
10 ‘ I knew it for a bird at once . ’
11 Ben knew it for a certainty .
12 He knew it for a certainty .
13 She knew it for a fact .
14 You knew it for a fact .
15 Harry Martin was behind all this , and , although she had n't a hope of proving it , she knew it for a fact .
16 And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’
17 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 .
18 The cold was within his heart now , and he knew it for the heartcold of the truly bereft .
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