Example sentences of "[vb base] know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls ; it tolls for thee . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Some like to know for sure and some do n't . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ There 's a real danger in the field of design these days that you become known for a specific style , like a particular type of chair , for instance , and that is all that people will ever want you to do . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ The calibre of Highways ’ staff is high and the Department has quite rightly become known for its imaginative initiatives including CLARENCE and the many road and traffic improvement schemes throughout the Region ’ said Graham Bowie . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | I ca n't say it 's been marvellously successful but I do know for a fact that the conditions of the working class was improved tremendously by organizations in the thing which has come to be described as trade-unionism . |
| 7 | All I do know for sure is that I woke up loving him . |
| 8 | Some of them are sons of friends I 've known for years . |
| 9 | People I 've known for years . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've known for 23 years what the potential problems were but done little to solve them , ’ says Hinners . |
| 11 | We 've known for a long time that when you can talk on the run , the miles just fly by . |
| 12 | On this first video , Mr Colbeck guides you gently through the workings of an array of popular home studio gear ( including the Fostex X28 four-track cassette recorder and the Alesis Quadraverb ) with the friendly manner of a family doctor you 've known for years . |
| 13 | I had the result this afternoon , but I 've known for a few weeks , really . |
| 14 | I 've known for months that … that what I feel for you is special , very special . |
| 15 | Mills was amoral and untrustworthy , but we 've known for a while now that he definitely worked for us . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | I 've known for years that I 'm as good a guest at a dinner party as I am a lousy host . |
| 19 | Erm I can personally testify that the , the award winner that this year is somebody that I 've known for something like twenty six , twenty seven years . |
| 20 | You 've known for years he was devious , and he 'd never actually fallen over himself to be nice to you , had he ? |
| 21 | ‘ I 've known for ages there was something going on . |
| 22 | People let their guard slip when they 're travelling ; they 'll tell you things they would n't say to a neighbour they 've known for years . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , it 's all right , ’ as she registered the look of shock in Lindsey 's eyes , ‘ I 've known for quite some time . |
| 24 | We 've known for a hundred years that there were Roman burials in this area . |
| 25 | Well , there was a time when it was a bolt from the blue , yes , I mean I 've known for a week or two , but we were delighted to receive it , er we do n't er , it is something that we said months ago that we supported the N H S Lottery because we do feel that money can be raised in this way painlessly towards particularly research and the sorts of things that the N H S on the whole has never really supported fully . |
| 26 | ‘ I need to know for certain whether the Romanians do have him . |
| 27 | If you move straight from chapter 5 to chapter 8 you will get a stark contrast between two theories of justification , and all you need to know for the moment is that I take the intervening chapters to provide a reason against any form of foundationalism . |
| 28 | N no er reference to access and land ownership which we need to know for the |
| 29 | Okay that sort of covers I think what I need to know for for election stuff . |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |