Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] [vb mod] not 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 | For the benefit of readers who may not know how a magneto operates , Fig. 1 shows the basic principle of this device . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 " ) . |
| 11 | I 've never eaten one of them in fact I would n't know what to do with one because |
| 12 | The two volumes of her so-called biography were received unenthusiastically by reviewers who could not know the extent to which it was Hardy 's own attempt to sum up his views on lifelong preoccupations such as the nature of art , life , and man 's cruelty to man and the other animals . |