Example sentences of "[noun] know for " in BNC.
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| 31 | Patrick was three months old when Sarah knew for sure that she would have James 's child before the year was out . |
| 32 | It 's supposed to be the burial chamber of King Sil , a knight known for his splendid suit of armour made of gold . |
| 33 | When he slept there , as he occasionally did in the classroom on the ground floor known for some mysterious reason as the ‘ Remove ’ , he could hear the trains run past the end of the garden and to him it was the most romantic sound in the world . |
| 34 | Grundy , a commentator known for his bilious disposition , had that afternoon returned from a lunch at Punch magazine and was himself feeling no pain . |
| 35 | A happy , approachable Oliver Stone is a new phenomenon indeed — he is no a man known for his relaxed attitude on set , and the actors in Platoon especially were pushed to the limit . |
| 36 | One of the gunmen had been instructed to kill Thakin Nu , who was elsewhere , but he could not bring himself to slay this man known for his religious piety . |
| 37 | The first time Nathan knew for certain that something was n't right was when Donald smashed him over the head with a can of beans . |
| 38 | Yeah , but my old man he 's a , he 's driving he was driving the one of the that 's , that erm , Lieutenant Colonel was in at the time of the , and he , he was in there and he said my old man knows for certain that at that time they were under fire , cos they drove in and picked up two bodies and put them in the back of the jeep all under fire |
| 39 | ‘ The police know for a fact that it was started deliberately . ’ |
| 40 | It is important for the humanities community to make its requirements known for the national acquisition and provision of dataset services . |
| 41 | ‘ Meaning that you 've been heavily involved in a world known for its fondness for alcohol and drugs . ’ |
| 42 | Peter and Paul do not want Mummy to be ill or to have HC themselves , but at the moment there is no sure way to know for everyone . |
| 43 | In an attempt to split the NLD , however , the military authorities shortly before the election released Myint Myint Khin , an NLD Executive Committee member known for her disagreements with the current NLD leadership . |
| 44 | Bridget Freemantle appears constantly in Leapor 's later poems as ‘ Artemisia ’ , a name that refers to a ruler of Rhodes known for having fostered the arts . |
| 45 | With astonishing speed prime spots in streets known for fashionable shopping before the second world war are being snapped up . |
| 46 | Then there is the matter of the French Cheddar ( not to be confused with an unidentified English cheese known for generations to the French public as Chester ) now being made down at Castres in the Tarn department of the Languedoc . |
| 47 | No-one in London knew for sure yesterday , though on Saturday evening Coker said he would be available , jet-lag permitting . |
| 48 | Mr Doubleday imported the first Russian comfrey into Britain , a plant known for its medicinal qualities . |
| 49 | Catastrophic summer floods caused by thawing farther south may raise the discharge to the level of the maximum known for the Congo . |
| 50 | Moreover , that was not the only spookish thing about the place : Henry knew for a fact that hundreds of years before , there had been a magician in the family . |