Example sentences of "do [adv] know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought that her father probably now earned more than £100,000 a year , but she did not know for sure because it was nine years since she had last visited him , four years since she had last received a Christmas card from him . |
| 2 | What the precise purpose was of installing complex electronics in an old sailing vessel he did not know for sure , and Iain did not press him . |
| 3 | She knew , although she did not know for quite how long , she had been running aimlessly . |
| 4 | Ages recorded on death certificates ( and to a lesser extent on marriage certificates ) were not always accurate because the informant did not know for sure . |
| 5 | Left staring at him while waiting for her full wits to return , Leith did not know for the moment what on earth was going on . |
| 6 | I do not know for certain why I went up there to watch them doing it . |
| 7 | And though we do not know for certain , it does seem doubtful that the only sins against EPA science are those that have been revealed . |
| 8 | The Trinidad crashed near Madrid , and to this day we still do not know for sure what happened . |
| 9 | But even if we discover that vineyards vanished from south east England at a time when the climate was getting colder , we still do not know for sure why they disappeared . |
| 10 | How long it took the different ancestors of these very different animals to evolve such tongues we do not know for there is no fossil evidence of any antiquity to tell us , but it must have been several million years . |
| 11 | We do not know for certain what the total membership of any such set is , how many items belong to it , or the extent to which speakers vary in assigning items to the set . |
| 12 | Then , when price is low firms do not know for sure whether it was because someone cheated ( produced a larger than agreed output ) , or because demand was low . |
| 13 | A senior officer said : ‘ We have not exhausted all our enquiries yet and we do not know for certain if those ransom calls were the work of cranks . |
| 14 | Exactly how it happened we still do not known for sure but you can find examples of the kind of organisms it produced in almost any patch of fresh water . |
| 15 | O stared , he did n't know for how long , at him and his outstretched hand , wondering whether to gasp it , fill it with change , or knock it away ; and then he looked up , because he heard his train coming and also because he felt the hot wind on his face . |
| 16 | What we did n't know for a long time was that this book is his revenge on his parents . |
| 17 | Grey you could say they were dark , if you did n't know for definite you could say they were dark trousers . |
| 18 | She still did n't know for sure if Chris had been murdered . |
| 19 | God , do you think I 'd come near you , talk to you about it , touch you , if I did n't know for a certainty that you want me as badly as I do you ? ’ |
| 20 | FitzAlan might suspect that something had happened between them , but he did n't know for sure . |
| 21 | That Mr er did live at the flat erm with his wife , there may have been children but we did n't know for certain and that the previous night two male persons appeared to have been there . |
| 22 | ‘ We knew the dangers and my husband Sammy and son Neil did n't know for sure we would come back . |
| 23 | ‘ Do n't know for sure yet , but there wo n't be any European corporate jobs left after we centralise everything in Detroit . |
| 24 | [ In talking about continued home care ] I can stand the strain at the moment , but I do n't know for how long I can go on . |
| 25 | I do n't know for sure that Ernest is going to emigrate . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know for sure . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't know for sure , girlie , but we 'll sort it all out in the end , just see if we do n't . |
| 28 | WHETHER HEROIN is at the root of this unreliability I do n't know for sure , nor am I about to proscribe the freedom — or is that stupidity — of anyone to take whatever substance they choose to take , be it alcohol , tobacco , heroin or carpet cleaner . |
| 29 | We do n't know for sure . |
| 30 | We do n't know for certain but it was probably to be given to you on your arrival . ’ |