Example sentences of "i [verb] for certain " in BNC.

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1 I asked for certain research facilities and I got them .
2 I look for certain features , like the floor .
3 It was still dark , that 's all I know for certain .
4 ‘ 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 .
5 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 .
6 I know for certain that your giving me Michel 's address will make a very great difference to the two of them .
7 Then you begin to get big ; after that , I know for certain . "
8 ‘ 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 . ’
9 I shall simply remain here until I know for certain what my situation really is . ’
10 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 …
11 I know for certain it 's in here somewhere .
12 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 .
13 I knew for certain I wanted to race .
14 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 .
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