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

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1 But Mr Major said that if he tried to be a Tory tough the public would know him for a phoney .
2 You have friends who know you for the man you are , and do not have to conceal your TRUE NATURE .
3 Moving her just a fraction away , his eyes once more holding hers captive , he added , ‘ So is n't it fortunate that I know you for the cheat you are ? ’
4 He shall feel the ground give under him , if only once , he shall fall , and men shall see him fall , and know him for a man like other men .
5 Know it for the madhouse it is .
6 ‘ She wo n't be getting any you know what for a bit ;
7 We 've known them for a while , they 've been travelling to games solidly for years and are better fans on that score than I 've ever been .
8 I had known him for a number of years .
9 How often have you known it for the butler who is on everyone 's lips one day as the greatest of his generation to be proved demonstrably within a few years to have been nothing of the sort ?
10 I spoke to myself and I did n't listen : meaningless words on deaf ears , although they were true , and whoever I was meant them , and whoever I was speaking to knew them for the truth .
11 ‘ I knew it for a bird at once . ’
12 Ben knew it for a certainty .
13 He knew it for a certainty .
14 She knew it for a fact .
15 You knew it for a fact .
16 Harry Martin was behind all this , and , although she had n't a hope of proving it , she knew it for a fact .
17 And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’
18 It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power .
19 The cold was within his heart now , and he knew it for the heartcold of the truly bereft .
20 ‘ I know today now there are some good degrees and goodness knows what for the job , but it does n't mean to say you can do the job .
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