Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only then would he know for certain that it had really happened , and that he would have to take some action . |
| 2 | He alluded to certain activities ‘ in which the gallant Captain and myself are involved . |
| 3 | However he disagrees with certain ‘ enthusiasts from the supply industry ’ who say that people should reschedule their cooking . |
| 4 | On the other hand the very nature of the work may be such as to make it quite clear that the duties of the employee to his employer can not properly be performed if he engages in certain activities in his spare time . |
| 5 | He votes for certain policies , and — save in presidential systems — for a government ; a serious one , not a bunch of clowns . |
| 6 | In an address on Virgil which he gave in September of this year , he talked of certain men , like Aeneas , who are elected to a special destiny . |
| 7 | No , I do n't think it was that ; it was simply the view he took of certain roles , certain music . |
| 8 | That was the only thing he knew for certain about himself . |
| 9 | When he knew for certain that a particular shooting or explosion was due to the very cell that he controlled , he consoled himself that it was the will of Allah . |
| 10 | The only thing he knew for certain was that the law forbade the Trunchbull to hit him with the riding-crop that she kept smacking against her thigh . |
| 11 | It was then he knew for certain that the oriental he had just shot was not the one from whom he had wanted to exact retribution for injuring Pam — because at the other end of the corridor he found himself looking into the glittering black eyes of his hated enemy , Angel One . |
| 12 | Bernstein , for instance , in his attempt to attribute less ‘ context-dependence ’ and greater ‘ objectivity ’ to certain language uses , correlated these characteristics with certain ‘ codes ’ which he identifies with certain social classes ( 1971 ) . |
| 13 | Describing what he does with certain scenes — Neeson 's torture and the destruction of his lab , a helicopter chase across a city skyline — would spoil their visionary kinetics and sheer comic surprise . |