Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A S EVERYONE must know by now , 1992 marks the 40th anniversary of H M The Queen 's accession to the throne . |
| 2 | The first question which should be asked on this subject is why use microcomputers Is the starting point for the selection of software either ( a ) because in this technological era everyone should know about microcomputers or ( b ) for sound learning aims and objectives ? i.e. do school librarians and teachers start from the skills and processes or because of the existence of software ? |
| 3 | I must know by the middle of October who wants to come , phone on evening only . |
| 4 | Her opening words , which echo a pair of lines in Chaucer 's first fabliau in the sequence of the Canterbury Tales , the Miller 's Tale ( I : 3768 – 9 ) , invite a dialogue charged with sexual connotations , not only in the obvious case of " " ryse " " , but also in the detectable reference to a conventional love-sickness : The monk 's answer immediately confirms the sexual topic of the dialogue , and dispenses with any euphemistic disguises : This rapid movement to a contextually surprising level of familiarity on the topic of sexual intimacy is paralleled in the French fabliau Auburee , where the old bawd , Auburee , in procuring a young wife for a besotted admirer , visits the wife and moves smartly into the bedroom , declaring : ( " I should certainly like to see your bed : then I should know for certain if you lie in the same splendour as the first wife did . " ) |
| 5 | ‘ Is there anything I should know in order to ask the right questions ? ’ |
| 6 | I should know by now that heavy drinkers are awfully fond of high-flown rationalisations for any brief spell of abstinence . |
| 7 | Well , I might know about owls but I would n't claim to know much about anything else . |
| 8 | Think I might know about it do you ? |
| 9 | ‘ I 'll know for certain in about an hour . |
| 10 | ‘ If I 'm here , ’ Rabbi Moishe replied , in the sing-song voice he would adopt to explain a point in the Torah , ‘ I 'll know about it sooner . |
| 11 | I tell myself that I 'll know in the morning but still I lie awake . |
| 12 | A club notorious in the area as a hang-out for the criminally inclined was suggested as a place where someone might know of them or their whereabouts . |
| 13 | She sat bushy-tailed for the day at a table with two men , one her husband ( ‘ You 'd think I 'd know by now after thirty-eight years what he likes for his breakfast ’ ) , the other a distant cousin , I decided . |
| 14 | Being a parent ai n't easy ( not that I 'd know from experience ) , and baby-sitting for other people is even worse ( I know that from experience ) . |
| 15 | " None of my crew would , I 'd know instantly , " I told him , " I 'm a non-smoker and if anybody smoked in my aircraft I would know at once . |
| 16 | I expected you to come after me , I prayed you would so that I would know for sure that you really wanted me , but you did n't . |
| 17 | Perhaps if I try again I shall know for sure . ’ |
| 18 | Well no no but I mean , if we limit it to two for the first day , and a I mean I shall know by eleven o'clock |
| 19 | Erm I have as I say one other if you like self-employed business opportunity that I have been pursuing erm which erm I shall know after Tuesday of next week . |
| 20 | ‘ There goes all I will know of God in life , ’ she once said of him . |
| 21 | ‘ I will know within the next month or two how I stand . |
| 22 | said I will know within forty eight hours and we thought we Tuesday you see |
| 23 | ( a ) The accused himself must know of the obligation . |
| 24 | She could have argued that if they went as planned to farm in another country , nobody would know about her past . |
| 25 | Now , nobody would know for certain how he had died , or what had been wrong with him , her husband . |
| 26 | Nobody will know about it . |
| 27 | There 's nobody in my house except me tonight , so nobody will know about your visit . ’ |
| 28 | ( Actually , until we carry out a properly calibrated experiment to measure the forces involved in both versions nobody will know for certain which is more powerful . ) |
| 29 | I 've come to you because I want you to tell me everything you can about Mr Hatton with particular reference to anything you may know about the source of his income . ’ |
| 30 | You may know of someone who has already tried it and succeeded . |