Example sentences of "[noun sg] never know " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the defendant had never been told he was being entrusted with secrets , there was no express covenant covering business secrets and the defendant never knew that he must not talk about his work outside his employment . |
| 2 | The poet never knew his grandfather , who ‘ had long been dead ’ when Edward first visited his father 's mother at Swindon in 1888 . |
| 3 | No matter how much organisation goes into the planning , Paul and his team never know exactly how many people will turn up . |
| 4 | A production person never knows when he will be asking a supplier to pull out all the stops and finish a job in a matter of hours . |
| 5 | Mellissa never knew what hit her , her circuits melding in the robotic equivalent of a cerebral haemorrhage , the doors to the complex opening as if in welcome . |
| 6 | For example , I never know where my wife is , and my wife never knows what I 'm doing . |
| 7 | An experience of which I am thoroughly ashamed , and thankfully at the time my crew never knew , came to pass one night early in 1943 . |
| 8 | ‘ She suffered for a long time and although her father never knew about it , her mother did . ’ |
| 9 | ( The funny thing is that Jack 's father never knew when his birthday was either . |
| 10 | Nah , not being papered till next week never know , well it ca n't be any worse than any other time really can it ? |
| 11 | ‘ People on the receiving end of a hoax bomb call never know if it is the real thing . ’ |
| 12 | The army never knows which it will be . |
| 13 | ‘ Woolley never knew the observers were n't killed until I told him . |
| 14 | Whereupon Johnson observed that it did not necessarily follow ‘ that a man who has written a good poem on an art , has practised it ’ , citing excellently instructive verses on cider by a man never known to have made any . |
| 15 | ‘ Party like this , a man never knows where the next one 's coming from , ’ he said . |
| 16 | The right hand never knew what the left was doing . |
| 17 | Bill and Thomas came out , followed by Mr Eames , who shut the door behind him , but somehow not quite to — a thing never known to happen before . |
| 18 | Fortunately this occurred during the dress rehearsal , so the general public never knew what they missed . |
| 19 | For example , people working here in acoustics and radiation physics never know which SERC committee will finally examine their applications — some of our recent applications have been to the committees for Biology , Chemistry , Chemical Engineering , Mechanical Engineering , Polymer Engineering , the joint SERC/SSRC committee or even sent off to ARC . |
| 20 | But her mum never knew — until she heard an appeal on the radio . |
| 21 | Her mother never knew this , though , and because she had agreed to accept that the words ‘ action stations ’ meant that there was an urgent and valid reason for the conversation to be terminated she felt no sense of rejection . |
| 22 | ‘ My family never know what they will find in the oven , ’ she says . |
| 23 | Such approaches , of course , were ordinarily difficult to resist , for a house never knew when royal gratitude might be of value to it in some application of its own or in some lawsuit ; a number of larger houses , like Bury St Edmunds in 1303 , even found themselves accommodating more than one royal corrodian ; furthermore , the recipients of these requests ranged far outside the hundred or so houses of which the king was patron . |