Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] know for " in BNC.

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1 It would have been defeat over what I now knew for certain was a perfectly reasonable and legal procedure which I would have found hard to handle .
2 I now know for certain that Selina Street is n't tucking Alec Llewellyn , or not for the time being anyway .
3 I do think answer for that one er erm I 'm not aware of any paper that 's published presenting that and we came as close as we could to answering that but nobody really knows for sure .
4 It is too early to test the political waters , nobody even knows for certain if the Communist Party has been dissolved or not .
5 You never knew for sure …
6 You never knew for sure what Frank was thinking .
7 We only knew for certain that there was something strange afoot when we heard the sounds of a train being marshalled and it started coming towards the hostel , what is more terrifying was that it was coming on a non-existent track !
8 We now know for certain that the Theobalds are doubtful , that Percy and Lois Hollis will ‘ do their best ’ , and we have had a late flash that Poppy Winterton thinks she has picked up a mystery virus .
9 No one really knows for sure . ’
10 None of us really knew for certain what had gone wrong , although , well , you could n't help putting two and two together .
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