Example sentences of "know for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he pulled himself together and said , as they mounted the station steps under the concrete canopy : ‘ Now if we were cops inside the covers of a detective story , Mike , we 'd know for sure that Hatton was killed to stop Pertwee getting married today . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't know for sure yet , but there wo n't be any European corporate jobs left after we centralise everything in Detroit . |
| 3 | ‘ She must need her head seeing to ! — Anyway , how do you know for sure she 's got money ? |
| 4 | For one thing , how would one know for sure that at any given moment a response of the bantering sort is truly what is expected ? |
| 5 | As for Jessie herself , she had held her in her arms and reassured her that her Robbie would be all right , even though , from the scanty information given her by the nurse , she could n't know for sure if he would be . |
| 6 | No one will ever know for sure . |
| 7 | No one not in the profession would know for sure whether the assassin had accepted or refused the job ; and no one except the contact and , in this case , the client , would know for sure exactly who was responsible for the messy death of Seren Haminh , probably about fifty hours from now , when the hunger would be rising again and giving her a few hours to sleep the first ecstasy off . |
| 8 | No one not in the profession would know for sure whether the assassin had accepted or refused the job ; and no one except the contact and , in this case , the client , would know for sure exactly who was responsible for the messy death of Seren Haminh , probably about fifty hours from now , when the hunger would be rising again and giving her a few hours to sleep the first ecstasy off . |
| 9 | The Trinidad crashed near Madrid , and to this day we still do not know for sure what happened . |
| 10 | Look at the toes of its front feet and if you discover fur on its nails you will know for sure there is another rabbit still to be captured . |
| 11 | When the results of these tests are finally known we may at last know for sure whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded or not . |
| 12 | Perhaps that 's as it should be , because who can know for sure ? |
| 13 | I do n't know for sure that Ernest is going to emigrate . ’ |
| 14 | He wo n't know for sure whether it 's a success until the time comes to deal with the excess stock . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know for sure . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Camilla 's sister , Annabelle Elliott , admitted that she does not know for sure whether there is any truth in rumours of a relationship with Prince Charles . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | We do n't know for sure . |
| 20 | Yes , probably , but I do n't know for sure . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | How could Jaq know for sure ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in . |
| 25 | In general elections we , we do n't normally know for sure until a few weeks beforehand what the date of the election is going to be . |
| 26 | It may have even done so within the last few centuries , though no one can know for sure . |
| 27 | One thing we did know for sure was that it was not keep-fit exercises that we needed but homes that were ‘ fit ’ to live in and incomes or benefits that prevented us from having to choose between dying from hypothermia or malnutrition ! |
| 28 | On the Dipper , if you had your eyes shut and your ears plugged up — so you could n't see or hear what was going on — and you just thought about how heavy or light you felt , and what was happening to your tummy — you would n't know for sure what was happening . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If only we could know for sure , but at that moment a guard came in and took away the television . |