Example sentences of "have known [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britten and William Plomer , his librettist , must have known instinctively that an opera celebrating the most masterful sovereign in English history nevertheless could not offer a modern ( even a Coronation ) audience Good Queen Bess or Schiller 's avenging spitfire . |
| 2 | I must have known somehow that he was the only person who did n't think Jake was crazy . |
| 3 | Well , my gran had told me that she 'd gone down to see her friends who 'd get the Brown Lion after them by this time and er I decided to go down and tell them as I could see if they had n't got the radio on they would n't have known so as I walked from Burchells down Road I could see doors throwing open lights were coming on , people were coming out in the street and dancing and I got round down to the Brown Lion and it was all in darkness , and I rang the bell on the side door and I heard a few bumps and bangs and Mr who 'd kept it then came to the door , and I said do you know the war 's over and er he said oh no come on in that 's w now his son was a prisoner of war and they had been , he 'd continually tried to escape so much that he had his photograph taken in the Sunday paper , the , the Germans had had kept chaining him to the wall and other prisoners , other soldiers had got these photographs of him and smuggled them out and got them back to England , to the nearest papers , and er he he 'd said to my nan cos he knew she 'd always worked behind the bar , he said will you serve if I open the pub now , which was about eleven o'clock at night and she said yes of course , and the they opened the Brown Lion at about eleven o'clock at night in next to no time the place was full of people drinking , celebrating and of course the next day was really it . |
| 4 | As for the old houses , there were none in the immediate area that I knew of , other than these which had been built as a nostalgic memento , as a reminder , as a gift both to himself and his family from a man who must have known innately that in discarding the past his people were in danger of losing their touchstone . |
| 5 | I should have known better than to take the word of any of that crowd from Donovan 's Square . ’ |
| 6 | She should have known better than to think he would bring it to her , miserable sinner that she was . |
| 7 | And he should have known better than to have his secretary type it . |
| 8 | The policeman should have known better than to expect Duncan to fall for a cheap trick like that . |
| 9 | But I should have known better than to accept anyone recommended by you . " |
| 10 | He should have known better than to think Ben would not ask that question . |
| 11 | Devious devil ; she should have known better than to think she could fool him . |
| 12 | He should have known better than agree to support a magistrate whose hatred of gipsies was so well known . |
| 13 | This covert attitude of declaring oneself unable to conceive as possible an exercising of audacity which in fact really took place gives the impression that the speaker thinks that the persons who did the action should have known better than to try . |
| 14 | ( Stone 1988 : 38 ) ( " When Agamemnon does the unthinkable , i.e. brings his concubine home , something which he should have known better than to do … " ) |
| 15 | ( implies " he should have known better than to … " ) |
| 16 | ( Sun , 24 September 1975 : 26 – 1 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 99 ) ( implies that they should have known better than to cross gloves with Joe Louis ) |
| 17 | ( The Times , 13 June 1974 : 25.4 ; in Erdmann 1982 : 104 ) ( " Mr Benn has dared do something he should have known better than to do , given Prime Minister Wilson 's present hostility towards any statement that might upset private industry . " ) |
| 18 | ‘ I should have known better than to think you 'd back down . ’ |
| 19 | I should have known better but I got a booking about half past nine in the evening . |
| 20 | READERS with longer memories will recall that Crystal Palace were dubbed The Team Of The Eighties by some people who should have known better and promptly began the decade with a 0-0 draw against Norwich . |
| 21 | Benskins increased his rent by £6,000 last year and John is convinced they must have known then that leases policy . |
| 22 | At Cabinets on 9 , 10 and 11 December he cautiously defended it on the ground that Hoare must have known more than they did , and defended also the continuation of Hoare 's holiday , although this by then had become more of a matter of nursing than of recreation , for he had fallen on the ice and broken his nose in two places . |