Example sentences of "knew for certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That was the only thing he knew for certain about himself . |
| 3 | Yet nobody knew for certain who these moderates ( sometimes called ‘ pragmatists ’ ) were ; or , if they existed , how much influence they had . |
| 4 | I knew for certain I wanted to race . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The grandmother of two of the children sobbed when she knew for certain they would not be coming home . |
| 7 | None of us really knew for certain what had gone wrong , although , well , you could n't help putting two and two together . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It would have been defeat over what I now knew for certain was a perfectly reasonable and legal procedure which I would have found hard to handle . |
| 11 | The only thing he knew for certain was that the law forbade the Trunchbull to hit him with the riding-crop that she kept smacking against her thigh . |
| 12 | In this most strange place and in this short moment Nicholas lost his heart and knew for certain that at last , at very last , without doubt or question , he had fallen in love . |
| 13 | It was so dark that Hazel seldom knew for certain whether he was leading or whether Bigwig or Silver might not be ahead . |
| 14 | The answer is that after mating they produce a tiny mobile larvae totally different to the adult this might drift for miles on ocean current before settling into the fixed adult form Down Norwick power station in North Wales , generates the electricity by pump storage , in off peak hours thousands of gallons of water are pumped from a lower lake to an upper lake , when the demand for electricity is high bowels are opened and water falls back through turbine to the lower lake again , this generates the power To ensure that the lower lake would never flood the was diverted through mile long tunnel in the mountain side , no one knew for certain how the salmon , the trout and even rarer that used to migrate up the old river would cope with the tunnels , pitch darkness and slow flowing water . |
| 15 | If they knew for certain that a vote of censure could not result in a general election , but would simply bring about a reshuffle in the Government , their conduct would become more robust . |
| 16 | And , when you bought it , you knew for certain that it would only work on one specific piece of typesetting equipment . |
| 17 | All that was important of human knowledge had been handed down — no one knew for certain whence old science had come — and only in interpretation was there ever anything which was novel or innovative . |
| 18 | Nobody knew for certain which building was going to be used , but there was a strong rumour that it was going to be the orfanotrofio , the orphanage . |
| 19 | None of us knew for certain who the informer was . |
| 20 | When my father arrived in Abyssinia in mid-December 1909 to take up his post as British Minister in charge of the Legation , the Emperor Menelik , the greatest ruler the country had known for centuries , was reported to be still alive ; but no one knew for certain , and all men asked what would happen when he died . |
| 21 | No one knew for certain what volume of water was pent up , but the old mine must have been full to the random of the 17th Century Cobblers Level . |
| 22 | ‘ I knew for certain when you showed me that photograph , and I realised it was Gaston , not Fabien whose picture she had kept all those years . |
| 23 | It was then he knew for certain that the oriental he had just shot was not the one from whom he had wanted to exact retribution for injuring Pam — because at the other end of the corridor he found himself looking into the glittering black eyes of his hated enemy , Angel One . |
| 24 | But she did n't want him even that far away , and in a mindless vortex of wanting , she , who she knew for certain was not the clinging type , clung on to him . |
| 25 | Yet she knew for certain that if she never saw him again she would never forget him . |
| 26 | Now that she knew for certain that she could n't marry him , her first impulse was to call him up and tell him so . |
| 27 | She knew for certain now , in the way that mothers can , that Steve was protecting someone , probably a man , possibly a teacher , but someone who had authority over him . |