Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for certain [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We only knew for certain that there was something strange afoot when we heard the sounds of a train being marshalled and it started coming towards the hostel , what is more terrifying was that it was coming on a non-existent track ! |
| 2 | A senior officer said : ‘ We have not exhausted all our enquiries yet and we do not know for certain if those ransom calls were the work of cranks . |
| 3 | Although it is not known for certain whether Yazid was present at Karbala , he is cast by the Shiites as the author of the incident , and the name is to this day a favourite Shiite epithet for a Sunni adversary — it was used in this sense during the 1980s war by the Tehran leadership when referring to that in Baghdad . |
| 4 | It is not known for certain if the male and female form a pair bond . |
| 5 | Yet when he set off on 20 September 1519 , with a royal mandate to search for a passage through to the Mar del Sur , and thus to determine for certain that the Spice Islands were within the Spanish domains , he had not the foggiest notion how far he might have to travel . |
| 6 | While I can not say for certain that the aquarium located at the Oceanographic Institute , Monaco boasts this title , it does contain some stunning displays of tropical freshwater and marine fish and is well worth a visit . |
| 7 | We now know for certain that the Theobalds are doubtful , that Percy and Lois Hollis will ‘ do their best ’ , and we have had a late flash that Poppy Winterton thinks she has picked up a mystery virus . |
| 8 | I now know for certain that Selina Street is n't tucking Alec Llewellyn , or not for the time being anyway . |
| 9 | We do n't know for certain but it was probably to be given to you on your arrival . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ The common denominators in all these factors , as a mathematician would say , are Dacourt and Millet but , first , we do n't know for certain if the wine sent to the Abbe Gerard was in fact the same he was drinking the night he died . |
| 11 | That Mr er did live at the flat erm with his wife , there may have been children but we did n't know for certain and that the previous night two male persons appeared to have been there . |
| 12 | I ca n't remember for certain but I think my wage was £2 per week . |
| 13 | The work is surely from a different school , and there is nothing here to say for certain whether the original was in bronze or marble . |
| 14 | It is too early to test the political waters , nobody even knows for certain if the Communist Party has been dissolved or not . |
| 15 | Until now she had n't taken much notice of him , so she could n't say for certain whether he was handsome or not . |
| 16 | In fact I ca n't say for certain that it ever arrived . |
| 17 | And it would n't , you would never know for certain until a speculative proposal was actually put to the test . |
| 18 | It was the first time she had actually said for certain that she would sail with me and I could not hide my joy , and Ellen , seeing that pleasure , laughed at it . |
| 19 | I never discovered for certain if he knew I was watching him . |
| 20 | But he 'd never known for certain and still did n't know now . |
| 21 | It was so dark that Hazel seldom knew for certain whether he was leading or whether Bigwig or Silver might not be ahead . |