Example sentences of "know for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D' ya know for kids , they 're the only kids that can show , that can make me go bright red ! |
| 2 | I mean , seven pounds to have , I mean they 're not gon na probably have an answer machine , but you know for things if things are going to be like that |
| 3 | You know for polishers you know , when the boat was |
| 4 | have to be a very low heat you know for microwaves |
| 5 | Well he 's a ministerial servant at last he was just sitting there and nothing you know for years since I 've came into the truth , he was , he was n't doing at all nothing and then lately erm , because he did , he did have a business and then he had er some pigeons er racing pigeons and all he was all involved more in making money and er you know , and then gradually he 's got rid of er , of the things that will actually er took a lot of his time , so he spent a lot of time with his family and with in the |
| 6 | Yes , but you know for years , when they were growing up in their teens , I was the the tennis net between him and his daughters , where 's she going , who 's she going with , who 's bringing her home , is she wearing eye make up , why 's she wearing nylons and not ankle socks , |
| 7 | and the water music which she had about you know for months and months she would have the water music on and you used to hear it in the . |
| 8 | It 's about time we got something , do n't , you know for months we scratched round looking like we 're busy , now we 're meeting ourselves backwards , coming backwards . |
| 9 | said to me about Pauline 's kids her three lads , not the baby like the two lads she said , oh she said er they came to play one night , or they came for tea or something and she goes to work at night you know , she said Paul was looking after them and she said , he said you could hear all this banging up and down the stairs , he said , bloody hell he said they were going mad , and I thought that 's what Tom and Hannah do when they come here , I said your two bang up and down like bloody anything I said that 's normal , you know for kids . |
| 10 | It has been known for caterers to come in at 8am , turn all the ovens on and not use them for three hours . ’ |
| 11 | This is well known for metabisulphites and sulphur dioxide ( see p 291 ) . |
| 12 | I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work . |
| 13 | Both of them were already known for silences . |
| 14 | A rather less celebrated thespian , Miss Liz Lynne , 43 , best known for voice-overs and her work as Mr Ashdown 's voice trainer , follows Sir Cyril Smith into Parliament for Rochdale . |
| 15 | Klein ( 1975a ) has described fossilized carnivore burrows from South Africa , and fossilized rodent burrows are known for hamsters ( Szafer , 1957 ) and pocket mice ( Voorhies , 1974 ) , but in general such discoveries are rare . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Six years ago he met his wife , English actress Victoria Tennant , best known for Winds of War with Robert Mitchum , when they co-starred in the film All Of Me . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've known for ages there was something going on . |
| 19 | This is well known for predators ( especially birds ) which form a searching image ; see , for example , Cooper ( 1984 ) . |
| 20 | He was America 's most prominent conductor and known for compositions from symphonies to musicals ; his most famous was West Side Story . |
| 21 | Although the existence of nitrate pollution and its health implications had been known for decades , in the UK it was not thought to be much of a problem until 1984 . |
| 22 | Geologists have known for decades about ‘ natural fission reactors ’ in very ancient rocks at Oklo in Gabon , West Africa . |
| 23 | He says that it has been known for drugs to be smuggled in large packages . |
| 24 | It has been known for developers to move in virtually overnight to demolish a building once they find out attempts are being made to list it . |
| 25 | When driving with the rear doors open , as is necessary on warm days to provide ventilation , exhaust fumes escape into the vehicle , making the journey for those in the back even more uncomfortable ; and it has been known for policemen in the back to fall out of the vehicle . |
| 26 | They 'd known for weeks and stayed by me , anxious when I was out of sight , whining in the daytime when they never used to . |
| 27 | They must have known for weeks . |
| 28 | It has been known for Goblins to get so ambitious that the entire catapult springs from its mounts and hits the Goblin splat in the face , putting paid to the whole device . |
| 29 | In extreme cases , say of a family from the remote rural areas of Azad Kashmir , if the mother has just had a baby , it is known for daughters of twelve to stay at home from school for weeks , do all the cooking , look after the younger children and generally run the home . |
| 30 | Audrey , 63 , widely known for roles in Roman Holiday and Breakfast At Tiffany 's , had recently returned from a tour of famine-hit Somalia , representing UN children 's fund UNICEF . |