Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I doubt I 'll ever know for sure because I 'll never see her again and only by coming face to face with her will I know the truth . ’ |
| 2 | People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in . |
| 3 | ‘ Though we 'll never know for certain , I … ’ |
| 4 | As for Jessie herself , she had held her in her arms and reassured her that her Robbie would be all right , even though , from the scanty information given her by the nurse , she could n't know for sure if he would be . |
| 5 | ‘ In fact , it may not turn out to be a job at all , but without you we could n't know for sure . ’ |
| 6 | Besides , you could never know for certain whose side everyone was on , and the wrong word might get about . |
| 7 | But we shall not know for some time yet . |
| 8 | One trouble is that one would n't know for which integers k , if any , the replacement of x by x + k would change the given polynomial into Eisenstein form . |
| 9 | On the Dipper , if you had your eyes shut and your ears plugged up — so you could n't see or hear what was going on — and you just thought about how heavy or light you felt , and what was happening to your tummy — you would n't know for sure what was happening . |
| 10 | Answering this kind of question will inevitably involve you in a certain amount of guesswork , because you ca n't know for certain what has been going on , but some assumptions are more likely than others . |
| 11 | That was something she would never know for certain . |
| 12 | And it would n't , you would never know for certain until a speculative proposal was actually put to the test . |
| 13 | No one will ever know for sure . |
| 14 | Nobody will ever know for sure how much Ken tried to rid himself of the camp , ‘ Carry On ’ image . |
| 15 | And he seems to think I may not get any worse , but we sha n't know for a couple of weeks . ’ |
| 16 | He wo n't know for sure whether it 's a success until the time comes to deal with the excess stock . |
| 17 | ‘ We wo n't know for a couple of days but everything points to her having used large amounts of cocaine , ’ a senior detective told TODAY . |
| 18 | We may never know for certain . ’ |
| 19 | However , at the beginning of the year we can not know for certain what the inflation rates will be ; we can only have expectations about what they will be . |