Example sentences of "[pron] know for certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was still dark , that 's all I know for certain . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I know for certain that your giving me Michel 's address will make a very great difference to the two of them . |
| 5 | Then you begin to get big ; after that , I know for certain . " |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | I shall simply remain here until I know for certain what my situation really is . ’ |
| 8 | 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 … |
| 9 | I know for certain it 's in here somewhere . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I knew for certain I wanted to race . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Yet nobody knew for certain who these moderates ( sometimes called ‘ pragmatists ’ ) were ; or , if they existed , how much influence they had . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | The grandmother of two of the children sobbed when she knew for certain they would not be coming home . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Yet she knew for certain that if she never saw him again she would never forget him . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And , when you bought it , you knew for certain that it would only work on one specific piece of typesetting equipment . |
| 22 | Indeed , we know for certain that this was sometimes not the case . |
| 23 | The sooner we know for certain what we believe to be true , the sooner we can mobilise against them . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ It is , of course , only a suspicion and I 'm sure you will say nothing until we know for certain . |
| 26 | Even an uncertainty is tangible : " What we know for certain is that this point is uncertain . " |
| 27 | The one thing we know for certain is that life has arisen once , here on this very planet . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |