Example sentences of "[pron] knew for " 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 | As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy . |
| 3 | I knew for certain I wanted to race . |
| 4 | The ward had been full , the nurses worked off their feet , but their care for me — and as far as I knew for the others — had been magnificent . |
| 5 | She said : ‘ It was an agonising wait until I knew for sure . ’ |
| 6 | And I knew for a little while that would be true . |
| 7 | I told her she was telling porkies because I knew for sure that God put it there as a sign he was never going to drown us all again or otherwise wreck the planet . |
| 8 | When Daine had first come to the City , he had — I knew for a fact — taken over a large proportion of the vice business that had been run by Paul Muni , a mobster whose empire had fallen thanks mainly to the investigative efforts and single-mindedness of — you guessed it — criminologist Claude Rains . |
| 9 | We both smiled , and I knew for a fact that she was n't Daine . |
| 10 | I knew for a start that there were more than a million Japanese there . |
| 11 | It was to be filmed in a Spanish club off Oxford Street , and I promised my flamenco friend Nuria , who taught me all I knew for my part in the About Face playlet , Señor Duende , that I would don a leotard and flounce for her . |
| 12 | When I knew for sure where you were I came to England alone . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | I mean if I knew for the fact that I was gon na get this job at the hospital I 'd pay for it |
| 15 | Yet nobody knew for certain who these moderates ( sometimes called ‘ pragmatists ’ ) were ; or , if they existed , how much influence they had . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The grandmother of two of the children sobbed when she knew for certain they would not be coming home . |
| 18 | That was about the only other thing she knew for sure . |
| 19 | She knew for sure that one contained the means to finding the Grimoire . |
| 20 | One thing she knew for sure : Alain would be married long before she was . |
| 21 | Suddenly she was ravenous , and she knew for sure that the cupboard held only labour-intensive proper food . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Yet she knew for certain that if she never saw him again she would never forget him . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She knew for a fact that he had n't used a condom , so that meant he could n't get her pregnant . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The audience , who knew for a fact that the Press had its facts wrong about the marriage , wittered on about ‘ ordinary people ’ being able to solve problems in the privacy of their own homes . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't need , perhaps , to underline to you the temptation that faced Mr Stratton , himself a virtually penniless man , and a man who knew for such seems to be the case — that his wife had run through almost all of the considerable money she had inherited from her first husband . ’ |
| 29 | You knew for a fact that anyone in that world was there for a genuine reason , either because he could n't get a job doing anything else — which was probably the best reason — or for the love of it . |
| 30 | And , when you bought it , you knew for certain that it would only work on one specific piece of typesetting equipment . |