Example sentences of "[adv] i [vb mod] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , Robyn , ’ he whispered huskily , ‘ if only I 'd know what you were going through . |
| 2 | If I can not come out soon — much of me will die , and only I will know enough to mourn its passing . |
| 3 | Can we go through erm what we 're going to do this week so I can make a note of it so I 'll know this week , rather than last week when I did n't so I did n't . |
| 4 | Thus I can know what is in the bottom drawer of my desk , or what I shall eat for breakfast tomorrow , by some form of inductive inference from what I have observed or am now observing . |
| 5 | But hopefully I shall know the answer . |
| 6 | I 'll line my stomach with something , so when it comes up later I 'll know that my stomach is empty . |
| 7 | ‘ Now I shall know you again . |
| 8 | Now I must know what you have decided in regard to precise details . |
| 9 | Well , now I 'd know what to do but then I just looked at him for help , and said , ‘ I do n't know any . |
| 10 | Oh well I should know both of what I say |
| 11 | I think , well I should know okay . |
| 12 | If I did , surely I would know ? |
| 13 | Then maybe I 'll know whether my fears have any substance . ’ |
| 14 | Okay , maybe I should know all this by now , but I do n't and I bet there are a lot of new readers who also read the mag and in many of the reviews there comes a point where they say to themselves , ‘ what 's one of them ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And if you are too tired to write you must come to see me in any case , and then I shall know you are safe . |
| 16 | For now we see through a glass , darkly : but then face to face : now I know in part ; but then I shall know even as also I am known . ’ ' |
| 17 | If I really believed then I would know they were in heaven , in eternal life , and I should be so glad about that . |
| 18 | If God would provide accommodation for my family while I was away , preferably with friends , and convince my parents that I was doing the right thing , then I would know that the trip was on . |
| 19 | If you start that , then I 'll know I 'm beyond redemption . |
| 20 | Put your hands up please and then I 'll know who to hear . |
| 21 | Oh then I 'll know wo n't I ? |
| 22 | Because , if you scrub them off then I 'll know that you 're gon na buy them . |
| 23 | I said if you said to me , Geoff , I want all the overtime I can get I can get the overtime I 'll go round and I 'll try and or if you say to me well I do n't want the overtime , I 'm quite happy with a flat week then I 'll know what I am but I said you change from day to day , one day you wann it , another day you do n't ! |
| 24 | Yeah , then I 'll know if I will be able to go . |
| 25 | If you do decide to keep this fish , and have difficulty obtaining stock , then I may know someone who has one or two to spare … |
| 26 | ‘ Come to bed with me , now , cara , and then I will know your answer … ’ |
| 27 | Maybe they will … and if they did , then I 'd know what to say . |
| 28 | and then I 'd know where I am , huh , I just ca n't go to it from this end , right I 'm out tonight , I 'm at the joiners with friends so |
| 29 | ‘ If I am to help on this , then I should know what 's going on . |
| 30 | 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 . " ) |