Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] know " in BNC.

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1 In times of crisis and extreme demand it is easy to overlook the willing horses some of whom may not know their own limitations .
2 There may be yet more complicated objects than us on other planets , and some of them may already know about us .
3 I may well know how I would react if I could remain consistently aware of what I know in the abstract , yet yield to the opposite reaction , so that ‘ I see , and approve , the better : I follow the worse ’ ( Ovid 's Video meliora proboque , deteriora sequor ) .
4 I may not know much , but I know the best way to deal with situations like this . ’
5 I may not know much about anatomy , but I am rug-smart .
6 I may not know how Selkirk died but I think I know why . ’
7 I may never know it in this world but I shall be told it in the next .
8 I must therefore know ‘ I ‘ .
9 If I went there I should n't know which bit to aim for .
10 I should n't know what to say . ’
11 I — I should n't know what to do — ’
12 Well it 's starting earlier than that , but I wonder whether to leave it until because I might already know most of
13 When she told me how she came to be a refugee , she paused reflectively before each statement , conscious that as a foreigner I might not know the history of Palestine before 1948 .
14 Yeah because if I work it out I 'll just know that i it made so and so but I wo n't know that it gave off that I 'll just remember that it made like zinc chloride or something I wo n't remember
15 if i I 'll just remember the symbol I wo n't even remember the symbols but I 'll just know that I can work it out if I needed to .
16 I 'll just know — the light will go off in my head .
17 I 'll soon know when you Kyle .
18 He had hundreds of shirts and why he ever wanted me to iron them I 'll never know .
19 If I did it and it did n't come out as good as I thought , or if I failed , then I 'll deal with that , but until I take that chance I 'll never know .
20 I 'll never know .
21 For light relief we had Valerie , and why she did n't end up in the same boat I 'll never know .
22 There 's some great games there , but why Tetris scored so highly I 'll never know .
23 Where Emily had learned to thieve so skilfully I 'll never know — perhaps she 'd taught herself — but it was the niftiest piece of pilfering I 'd ever witnessed .
24 I 'll never know what happened to him because the bottom part of the paper was missing — and I wonder whether his friend recovered .
25 How intelligent he was , I 'll never know , but that is the least of our worries .
26 Alice said sadly : ‘ I 'll never know why my Patrick died .
27 I know I 'll never know what it 's really like . ’
28 I 'll never know .
29 He even flew backwards sometimes , though how he managed this I 'll never know .
30 How anyone can eat all this stuff at lunchtime I 'll never know ! ’
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