Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb mod] [adv] know " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | On North went : ‘ I 'm really worried because I have the only copy and it 's in my safe , and I could cross the street tomorrow and get run over by a truck and so no-one would ever know . |
3 | Perhaps I 'll never know . |
4 | There 's some great games there , but why Tetris scored so highly I 'll never know . |
5 | Perhaps you might even know where I might get some made . |
6 | Why this terrible fear that it could all go horribly wrong , that a dream was all she would ever know ? |
7 | So you 'll always know that , if your salary 's gone up by the same level , whenever you claim , it 's gon na be the same percentage as it was today . |
8 | So you will normally know whether the station is to your left or right and whether it is ahead of astern . |
9 | Perhaps we shall never know . |
10 | In summary , we do not know and perhaps we can never know if babies experience pain as the word is understood by adults . |
11 | Perhaps we will soon know ; perhaps the endless meetings on Bosnia in which , as one participant has said , everyone has changed their minds ‘ at least once ’ imply thoroughness of preparation . |
12 | Perhaps we will never know . |
13 | Obviously we shall never know whether fossil species were capable of interbreeding until somebody invents a time machine , and we can go back and see for ourselves ! |
14 | Perhaps they 'd never know that they were moving at all . |
15 | So they 'll never know about the things Uncle Joe did to me … |
16 | If you removed all the he saids and she saids from the writing above you would still know who was saying what because Nicolas and Bridget are doing different things . |
17 | He hopes to show that , although we can not know quite what the former say we can , nevertheless we can still know more than the latter allow . |
18 | But unless she is analysed soon we may never know why the sea did not corrode her solid . |
19 | So now I shall never know , because no one would have thought about twins when I was found . |
20 | But now you 'll never know whether he 'd have made a move or not , will you ? |
21 | Knowledge had betrayed her , because now she would always know what she was missing , and she would never be free again . |
22 | Now we may never know what secrets it was towing with it in the clouds . |
23 | More likely , they followed a route now reduced : like Kipling 's road through the woods , ‘ weather and rain have undone it again and now we shall never know there was once a road through the woods . ’ |
24 | Okay well you 'll probably know erm that of course we can start people immediately if they were |
25 | Well we 'll soon know if he snores |
26 | If that 's the way you think , then I 'd rather know now than later . ’ |
27 | ‘ Then you 'll probably know a friend of mine . |
28 | ‘ Then you 'll also know that Zimbala has been a one-party state since it was granted independence by the French forty-five years ago . ’ |
29 | Er , so then you 'll always know , and , you know , regret where you got it . |
30 | Then you will also know how stupid it was of you to attempt to deceive us . ’ |