Example sentences of "know [pron] for a [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 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 .
3 ‘ She wo n't be getting any you know what for a bit ;
4 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 .
5 I had known him for a number of years .
6 ‘ I knew it for a bird at once . ’
7 Ben knew it for a certainty .
8 He knew it for a certainty .
9 She knew it for a fact .
10 You knew it for a fact .
11 Harry Martin was behind all this , and , although she had n't a hope of proving it , she knew it for a fact .
12 And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’
13 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 .
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