Example sentences of "know [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | W is ‘ We wo n't worry about all those complicated scenarios , which for all we know may never happen at all ’ . |
| 2 | Apart from portraits , arguably the two greatest pictures that Queen Victoria purchased were Frith 's ‘ Ramsgate Sands ’ , an endearing masterpiece which for all I know may still hang in the waiting room at Buckingham Palace for the amusement of visitors , and Leighton 's ‘ Cimabue 's Madonna carried in procession ’ , acquired from the Royal Academy in 1855 and now on permanent loan to the National Gallery . |
| 3 | No industry that I know would ever have publicly exposed such a failure and their frankness in so doing should do nothing but increase public confidence in the honesty and integrity of those concerned and also in their total commitment to the safe and efficient operation of the station . |
| 4 | and as we know can greatly complicate the moral and ethical dilemmas of human sexuality and procreation and abortion . |
| 5 | Thiercelin 's misgivings soon resolved into the sick certainty of a failure which for all he knew could already have cost another life . |
| 6 | During the strike , there were allegations that the police used binding-over orders in cases which they knew could never result in convictions but in which they wanted to avail themselves of the opportunity for the imposition of bail conditions which they knew such a charge would give them ( Christian , 1985 : 133 ) . |
| 7 | And then , as they mumbled and made half-hearted climbing-down gestures that he knew would probably stop as soon as he was out of sight , he opened up the door to the club and let himself in . |
| 8 | Quiet country parsons , who had applied for twenty shares in the hope of being allotted one , now had to buy all twenty , at fifty pounds apiece , or go to debtor 's jail — all for a railway that the judge , barrister , company , and jailer knew would never exist . |
| 9 | The Roy I knew would never take that from anyone , not in a million years . ’ |
| 10 | His mouth closed over hers with the passion and glory she knew would never die and she melted into his impassioned embrace with a heart that was free to be his at last . |
| 11 | Over the tops of the heads Jess stared at her , hunting for help that she knew would never come . |
| 12 | They had n't made university and the difference between their comfortable life style — houses on an executive estate , en suite bathrooms , artificial coal fires in what they called the lounge , working wives , a new car every two years and timeshares in Majorca — provided both with agreeable hours of self-satisfied comparisons which he knew would always end with the same conclusion , that he ought to pull himself together , that it was n't right , not after all the sacrifices Mum and Dad had made to send him to college , and a fine waste of money that had proved . |
| 13 | We have seen that there is always more to knowing than human knowing will ever know . |