Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] for certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | I look for certain features , like the floor . |
| 2 | It was still dark , that 's all I know for certain . |
| 3 | ‘ Tomorrow morning , ’ he said , ‘ I have to make my closing speech in defence of a man who is on a murder charge , and whom I know for certain to be innocent . |
| 4 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |
| 5 | I know for certain that your giving me Michel 's address will make a very great difference to the two of them . |
| 6 | Then you begin to get big ; after that , I know for certain . " |
| 7 | ‘ All I know for certain is that Sabine Jourdain had a row with a man on board the Jonquil before she was taken dead from the water , and that man was Tarquin Poulteney-Crosse . ’ |
| 8 | I shall simply remain here until I know for certain what my situation really is . ’ |
| 9 | Belief … may be said to be the state of mind of a person who says to himself : " I can not say I know for certain that these goods are stolen , but there can be no other reasonable conclusion in the light of circumstances … |
| 10 | I know for certain it 's in here somewhere . |
| 11 | But what I would like to know is , any of you know for certain that you want to come to either of the parts of those that day , in the evening or the afternoon ? |
| 12 | Quantum theory then predicts that when a measurement of some property of one of the particles ( call it A ) is made the results we obtain for certain measurements on particle B depend , not only on the results we get for the measurement on A , but also on what property of A we decide to measure . |
| 13 | Indeed , we know for certain that this was sometimes not the case . |
| 14 | The sooner we know for certain what we believe to be true , the sooner we can mobilise against them . ’ |
| 15 | All that we know for certain about his coronation oath is that he promised to preserve the laws of the realm unimpaired and to do nothing touching the dignity of the crown without first obtaining the consent of his prelates and chief magnates . |
| 16 | ‘ It is , of course , only a suspicion and I 'm sure you will say nothing until we know for certain . |
| 17 | Even an uncertainty is tangible : " What we know for certain is that this point is uncertain . " |
| 18 | The one thing we know for certain is that life has arisen once , here on this very planet . |
| 19 | One thing we know for certain about global warming is that — whether fields get drier or damper , whether temperatures soar or only fluctuate — our crops will have to adjust quickly . |
| 20 | Throughout his career Chaplin took every care to sustain the idea that his life had been a kind of Victorian romance and perhaps if we allow for certain embellishments we can accept this interpretation as legitimate . |
| 21 | No less than three supporters , all before opening time , have told me that they know for certain that a League chairman has been watching me in recent weeks . |
| 22 | I think there 's a more serious thing that we have n't actually touched on which is that many people feel that they are discriminated against when they go for certain posts |