Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] know " in BNC.
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1 | Why people spend good money to go and listen to that sort of stuff I 'll never know . |
2 | How I never got a dose of clap I 'll never know ! |
3 | With luck they 'll never know what happened to him . |
4 | Up home they 'd soon know what to call you if you started going on like that . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | And er if you were interested in football you 'd never know till Tuesday morning what had happened on that Saturday , the previous Saturday . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | ‘ Stiff knee , ’ he said , watching for obstacles he might only know about by walking into them . |
11 | How I managed to pipe the intake seven-and-a-half miles to the Commando Camp at Achnacarry I shall never know . |
12 | How anyone can eat all this stuff at lunchtime I 'll never know ! ’ |