Example sentences of "he [modal v] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hast thee consulted Miller — the last being new , he may know nothing of . |
| 2 | The question here is whether he need feel compelled to continue treatment , especially since he may know that if he does continue , his actions will , if reasonable ( and it will be hard to prove otherwise ) , qualify as being justified . |
| 3 | ‘ Possibly he may know of someone else who gives such lessons . ’ |
| 4 | Or he may know exactly what he 's doing — and be doing it for reasons his companions know nothing of , his meaning anything but benevolent . |
| 5 | We suspect that he may know something about the downing of this plane that we do n't know he knows , if you follow me . |
| 6 | He may know the difference between a tractor which works and one which does not , but he can not know how many tractors are required , what sort of tractors to build , and where they are most needed . |
| 7 | It would be harsh to hold a person liable for the act of every casual visitor who has bare permission to enter his land and of whose propensities to evil he may know nothing ; e.g . |
| 8 | He is shaking his head and pleading not guilty , but he may know something about its origins . |
| 9 | He may know that the vehicle has been taken , but seek positively to absent himself from the scene and the commission of the aggravated offence . |
| 10 | Of course , the fee charged will probably be greater as a result because the freelance programmer might have envisaged making use of the program elsewhere ; he may know of other businesses which would be interested in what he produces . |
| 11 | I mean he may know |
| 12 | he may know when it 's likely to come |
| 13 | He 's a superb Secretary for Trade and Industry , and I shall be here answering questions every Tuesday and Thursday , and I hope one day he may know how to ask a good one . |
| 14 | He should know ; he was once warden of the remote island of Skokholm off the Pembrokeshire coast . |
| 15 | I was flooded with joy , and all at once it seemed the most important thing in the world that he should know that I still loved him , too . |
| 16 | — be prepared to tell him any particular things he should know ( e.g. you spend a long time travelling to and from work each day ; you have recently had a bereavement in your family ; you have to get up each night for the children , etc . ) . |
| 17 | Second , within the revised section he should know the degree of use received by different subject elements . |
| 18 | In Munich , as one observer reported , each apprentice was made ‘ industrially efficient ’ ; and ‘ with this end in view ’ it was ‘ not sufficient ’ to receive instructions merely in the technical side of the trade , for the young worker to become ‘ a worthy citizen ’ , he should know something ‘ of his duties and responsibilities to the State ’ . |
| 19 | Her sole purpose in being there was to meet him and she was content that he should know it . |
| 20 | But Johansson warned : ‘ If somebody has ideas he should know we are always prepared to discuss it . |
| 21 | ‘ He should know , ’ he said . |
| 22 | And he should know . |
| 23 | Personally , I 'm not sure it is , though Dickie 's Head insists it is , and he should know . |
| 24 | He says it 's nothing , and he should know . |
| 25 | He should know about them should n't he ? |
| 26 | He should know : his company , Landor Associates , was responsible for the identity of British Airways . |
| 27 | To do this , he should know something about the probability of sounds being symbolised in one way or another , and which is the most likely way for this set of sounds to be symbolised . |
| 28 | As an historian he should know that peasants , when pushed too far , have been known to revolt . |
| 29 | The second requirement is that he should know what is said against him . |
| 30 | He should know much about steel and about bridges and be capable of combining this knowledge with the undoubted facts revealed by the tests . |