Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of Nikandre we can not know . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course he would n't know me , ’ she thought . |
| 3 | ‘ Of course you would n't know , would you , ’ Charlotte said with asperity . |
| 4 | Of course you will not know whether you were right until you get there — but it certainly helps If you can learn to see this lifetime as a small part of a much greater voyage . |
| 5 | Without the guidance of hypotheses we should not know what to observe , what to look for , or what experiment to make in order to discover order in routine . ’ |
| 6 | If miracles were always taking place , there would be no order in the universe , and without the regularity of nature we should not know where we were . |
| 7 | Why people spend good money to go and listen to that sort of stuff I 'll never know . |
| 8 | How I never got a dose of clap I 'll never know ! |
| 9 | What 's new is that the old defence , that a director did not ‘ knowingly or willingly ’ allow something to happen has been eroded and , Bell said , ‘ directors will have to show specifically and beyond a shadow of doubt they could not know what was happening or that they had minuted their protest ’ . |
| 10 | With luck they 'll never know what happened to him . |
| 11 | Up home they 'd soon know what to call you if you started going on like that . |
| 12 | Whether he had been there by accident or whether he had spotted me arriving and slunk into position I shall never know , but from his point of view the result must have been eminently satisfactory because it was certainly the worst fright I have ever had . |
| 13 | And er if you were interested in football you 'd never know till Tuesday morning what had happened on that Saturday , the previous Saturday . |
| 14 | Whether or not this happened to any extent in Britain we can not know , but any hint of it would undoubtedly have started wild rumours , fired by imagination which always accompanies sexual matters . |
| 15 | B would be more precise than A , for in A we should not know who was being spoken of ( " him " ) but in B we should find it stated ( " God " ) . |
| 16 | I 've never eaten one of them in fact I would n't know what to do with one because |
| 17 | How one lesbian can put another lesbian on report I will never know , because as far as I 'm concerned that 's hypocritical , totally and utterly . |
| 18 | Now if parents , through playing games with their children that are based on words , could alert the child to the fact that print is a convention and that we can translate print into reality , obviously not as abstract as that , but just get the child used to knowing what print is , knowing what reading is , so that perhaps when they go to school they may well know this is a skill that they do n't have , like they do n't know , perhaps , how to ride a bike , they may not know how to swim , they certainly do n't know how to drive a car , but they do know what sort of a thing driving a car is . |
| 19 | Now if parents , through playing games with their children that are based on words , could alert the child to the fact that print is a convention and that we can translate print into reality , obviously not as abstract as that , but just get the child used to knowing what print is , knowing what reading is , so that perhaps when they go to school they may well know this is a skill that they do n't have , like they do n't know , perhaps , how to ride a bike , they may not know how to swim , they certainly do n't know how to drive a car , but they do know what sort of a thing driving a car is . |
| 20 | ‘ Stiff knee , ’ he said , watching for obstacles he might only know about by walking into them . |
| 21 | How I managed to pipe the intake seven-and-a-half miles to the Commando Camp at Achnacarry I shall never know . |
| 22 | How anyone can eat all this stuff at lunchtime I 'll never know ! ’ |