Example sentences of "i [vb base] know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't think you will , ’ said the Brownie Guider , ‘ but I do know for certain that you faced what to you was great danger with wonderful bravery . ’ |
| 2 | I ca n't say it 's been marvellously successful but I do know for a fact that the conditions of the working class was improved tremendously by organizations in the thing which has come to be described as trade-unionism . |
| 3 | All I do know for sure is that I woke up loving him . |
| 4 | Some of them are sons of friends I 've known for years . |
| 5 | People I 've known for years . |
| 6 | I had the result this afternoon , but I 've known for a few weeks , really . |
| 7 | I 've known for months that … that what I feel for you is special , very special . |
| 8 | They quote an Under Secretary commenting upon informal communications networks : ‘ Some of these people I 've known for twenty-five years and we can of course communicate with each other almost in code . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , I 've known for some time that if you want a bit of peace you only have to bore people enough and they 'll leave you to it . ’ |
| 10 | I 've known for years that I 'm as good a guest at a dinner party as I am a lousy host . |
| 11 | Erm I can personally testify that the , the award winner that this year is somebody that I 've known for something like twenty six , twenty seven years . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've known for ages there was something going on . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , it 's all right , ’ as she registered the look of shock in Lindsey 's eyes , ‘ I 've known for quite some time . |
| 14 | Well , there was a time when it was a bolt from the blue , yes , I mean I 've known for a week or two , but we were delighted to receive it , er we do n't er , it is something that we said months ago that we supported the N H S Lottery because we do feel that money can be raised in this way painlessly towards particularly research and the sorts of things that the N H S on the whole has never really supported fully . |
| 15 | ‘ I need to know for certain whether the Romanians do have him . |
| 16 | Okay that sort of covers I think what I need to know for for election stuff . |
| 17 | ‘ Ah , but I need to know for sure , you see , because I have some doubts , and before you ask me why I should be so concerned I will assure you that this time it is partly for my own self-esteem that I would like to know . ’ |
| 18 | In the village I have known for the last 10 years , they openly regret that things were better under Marcos . |
| 19 | I am delighted to have heard anything worthwhile by Schillings , whose music I have known for some time in piano-vocal scores but have not encountered in performance . |
| 20 | I have known for many years , through long observation , that truth IS stranger than fiction . |
| 21 | The said partnership is for economic strategy planning and they have current consultancy projects in what was the USSR , and the one of the three I have known for years , as he shared a Lothian Regional council office with our former upstairs neighbour , lovely now in lake district is off to Moscow next Monday and then to another city ( ? sp ) six thousand miles east of Moscow ! |
| 22 | All I know is what I have known for the past two years : there is no reason at all for the blindness . |
| 23 | I am sure that my hon. and gallant Friend , whom I have known for many years and for whom I have a great affection , would agree that about half the best people are women . |
| 24 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |