Example sentences of "[pron] know no [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought at one time Didi and I would get along well enough , but , after finding my sweet , simple , clumsy , courageous , honest , fiery … ’ his voice dropped to a husky whisper ‘ … beautiful , passionate Sagittarian , I know no other woman would have satisfied me . ’ |
| 2 | … a set of men who live by death and never care to appear but at the End of Man 's Life … their Business is to watch Death , and to furnish out the Funeral Solemnity , with as much pomp and feigned sorrow as the Heirs or Successors of the Deceased chose to purchase : They are a hard-hearted Generation , and require more money than Brains to conduct their Business ; I know no one Qualification peculiarly necessary to them , except that is a steady , demure and melancholy Countenance at Command : I do not know , that they take Apprentices in their Capacity as Undertakers , for they are generally Carpenters , or Herald-Painters besides ; and they only employ , as Journeymen , a set of Men whom they have picked up , possessed of a sober Countenance , and a solemn melancholy Face , whom they pay at so much a Jobb . |
| 3 | I know no personal cause to spurn at him , |
| 4 | I know no personal cause to spurn at him , |
| 5 | ‘ I know no such thing , ’ she says indignantly . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm not probing , you know , Joe , but we 've been together months now , nine of them , in fact , and I know no more about you now than on the day we met , except that you come from the wilds of Northumberland . |
| 7 | Fact is , Harrison , I know no more about it than you do . |
| 8 | ‘ I know no more than you , Corbett . |
| 9 | I say they must have got the knowledge from him somehow , by what manner of deception I know no more than you . |
| 10 | Those who know no better probably reckon they can put one over Mary , passing her off as a cups-of-tea , rustic East Country accent , down-home , fund-raising type . |
| 11 | Over the past two years , I have noticed the increasing sale of Painted Indian Glassfish , Painted Glassfish and Painted Angelfish , all sold at high prices to unsuspecting fishkeepers who know no better . |
| 12 | But no you go up town and get me this you see now she meant that sh sh you know no mampy pampying now , off you go yo you this is going to happen to you for a long time to come . |
| 13 | erm but it 's , it 's had n you know no vocational direction whatsoever , |
| 14 | His books were not widely circulated and in one of the last two which were dedicated to his son ( and unpublished ) was the assertion that it contains instances " that will make you a better interpreter of dreams than all , or at least inferior to none ; but , if published , they will show you know no more than the rest " — a sentiment which T. R. Glover rather pithily describes as suggesting science declining into profession . |
| 15 | Those who would have fallen ill even under moderate sexual restrictions succumb to illness all the earlier and more severely under the demands of our present civilized sexual morality ; for we know no better security against the menace to normal sexual life caused by defective predisposition and disturbances in development than sexual satisfaction itself . |
| 16 | It is all too easy to do this , especially if we know no other ways of praying than our own . |
| 17 | We know no more than the narrator , within whose obsessively observant mind we wander , searching , like him , for some sure knowledge . |
| 18 | We know no more than his two letters tell us . |
| 19 | During this period we know no more about him . |
| 20 | After ten years , they may well have reached the zenith of maturity when they know no non-Christian friends at all ! |
| 21 | ‘ All those people are out there struggling to cope , and in many cases have themselves become abusers — they know no better , ’ she said . |
| 22 | ( It is paradoxically liberals who provide me with my argument for this when they argue that violent people can be ‘ understood ’ since they know no other language with which to express their inarticulate aggro . |