Example sentences of "know it for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt that I had known it for a long time . |
| 2 | I had known it for a long time , ever since I had confided to my Mum at age fifteen that I fancied the other girls at school , the ‘ it 's just a phase , ’ syndrome . |
| 3 | Maxim would have known it for a British government office no matter where in the world he met it : small neon-lit with a hodge-podge of cheap furniture and painted to look scruffy even when it was surgically dean . |
| 4 | She knew it for a fact . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew it for a bird at once . ’ |
| 6 | Ben knew it for a certainty . |
| 7 | He knew it for a certainty . |
| 8 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 9 | You knew it for a fact . |
| 10 | Harry Martin was behind all this , and , although she had n't a hope of proving it , she knew it for a fact . |
| 11 | And she knew it for a fact when he murmured smoothly , ‘ I think I might find it agreeable . ’ |