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 . |