Example sentences of "knew for " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing we knew for sure — beyond here was the unknown , and it looked big . |
| 2 | AGRICULTURE ministry and Milk Marketing Board officials knew for weeks that milk contaminated with lead was on sale , Whitehall sources indicated yesterday . |
| 3 | I would feel bad if I knew for certain that someone was going to cosh me with a lead pipe on January 15 of that year . |
| 4 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 5 | That was the only thing he knew for certain about himself . |
| 6 | You never knew for sure … |
| 7 | Yet nobody knew for certain who these moderates ( sometimes called ‘ pragmatists ’ ) were ; or , if they existed , how much influence they had . |
| 8 | I knew for certain I wanted to race . |
| 9 | No-one in London knew for sure yesterday , though on Saturday evening Coker said he would be available , jet-lag permitting . |
| 10 | You knew for a fact that anyone in that world was there for a genuine reason , either because he could n't get a job doing anything else — which was probably the best reason — or for the love of it . |
| 11 | The father is known only to myself and the computer , and none of the young men who cooperated in giving us specimens of their sperm knew for what purpose it was given . |
| 12 | The ward had been full , the nurses worked off their feet , but their care for me — and as far as I knew for the others — had been magnificent . |
| 13 | This is that area of physical life which is associated with sickness and health ; an area wherein the interplay between the subconscious healing operations of the bodily functions , on the one hand , and the power of the human mind or will to help those functions on the other , would offer immense possibilities for medical practice if the practitioner knew for sure that in the mind of the patient there was the certain knowledge that successful self-help generated from faith in a fully believed-in ‘ god ’ could be achieved . |
| 14 | The question then arises , ‘ Would this fear be there if the individual concerned knew for absolute certainty that no-one will ever know that he is guilty ? ’ . |
| 15 | That the children liked him he knew for , even if they did mock , gesture rudely and scream and call , they did so with a laugh . |
| 16 | Patrick was three months old when Sarah knew for sure that she would have James 's child before the year was out . |
| 17 | None of them knew for sure — except James Lambert . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He said he did n't really know ; it was all so bloody complicated , all he knew for sure was there were two types , aggressive and non-aggressive ; one was curable and one was n't and he — thank God — had the one that was . |
| 20 | The grandmother of two of the children sobbed when she knew for certain they would not be coming home . |
| 21 | She said : ‘ It was an agonising wait until I knew for sure . ’ |
| 22 | Of course , rumours abounded about what went on behind the barriers which prevented the common people from entering the districts where the Communist élite lived , but no one knew for sure . |
| 23 | From the day they had all parted , diverging from Ecalpemos out into the world , he had never seen Adam again , but he knew all about him , knew for instance that he had become a partner in a company selling computers that called itself Verne-Smith-Duchini . |
| 24 | None of us really knew for certain what had gone wrong , although , well , you could n't help putting two and two together . |
| 25 | No film star , director , or anyone connected with the business , knew for sure who was hiding where and checking on their lives and loves . |
| 26 | He knew for a fact that they were innocent . |
| 27 | You never knew for sure what Frank was thinking . |
| 28 | 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 ! |
| 29 | When he knew for certain that a particular shooting or explosion was due to the very cell that he controlled , he consoled himself that it was the will of Allah . |
| 30 | The audience , who knew for a fact that the Press had its facts wrong about the marriage , wittered on about ‘ ordinary people ’ being able to solve problems in the privacy of their own homes . |