Example sentences of "[adv] know [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To write about a place I did not know might seem to be breaking one of the most quoted warnings to the novice author : " Write about what you know " . |
| 2 | But some things you just know will happen . |
| 3 | For Norris the provocative sloganistic phrases by which Derrida is best known will make true sense only when restored to the contexts from which they have been taken . |
| 4 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 5 | You hardly know will scatter |
| 6 | Moreover , I think most managers know this intuitively and have only lacked a workable structure and a decent intellectual justification for what they have always known could work , and work well . |
| 7 | He had to recite from memory in front of his headmaster fifty Greek lines from the play Medea — a severe punishment , for learning fifty lines of verse in a language imperfectly known would take several hours of spare time . |
| 8 | And then when we finished er finished the game about , I do n't know must have been about twenty to eleven when we finished the game there was sandwiches and chips coming out . |
| 9 | I do n't know must have had some sort of virus or something |
| 10 | Behind the all-too-flimsy barrier of the dress , Folly could feel a deep red blush spreading to parts of her body she had n't known could blush . |