Example sentences of "know could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Behind the all-too-flimsy barrier of the dress , Folly could feel a deep red blush spreading to parts of her body she had n't known could blush . |
| 2 | It must have been on a main line , because there were two sets of tracks , and the mouth of the tunnel had seemed to him — he might have been five , six ? — bigger than anything he had ever seen , bigger than anything he had known could exist . |
| 3 | Moreover , I think most managers know this intuitively and have only lacked a workable structure and a decent intellectual justification for what they have always known could work , and work well . |
| 4 | He gave a hard smile , and said , ‘ The only one that I knew could fulfil my ambition to be a multimillionaire before I was thirty . ’ |
| 5 | The fact that very few other girls she knew could hold a candle to Paula did not help much either . |
| 6 | It was like the conversations he had on the ‘ Carry On ’ set , embroidered for an audience whom he knew could relate to it all . |
| 7 | This new tank had an u/g filter powered by an Aquaclear 301 plus an overhead trickle-through filter powered by a Fluval 4 which I knew could carry a much bigger load than required . |
| 8 | No one else I knew could afford a car like that . |
| 9 | Her eyes filled with tears , but she made no attempt to blink them away , too caught up in an internal struggle which she knew could determine her life forever after . |
| 10 | I found myself wondering anxiously whether anyone we knew could overhear us . |
| 11 | Until that moment I never realised anyone I knew could die . |