Example sentences of "never know [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And once that happened , Ireland was lost to him , for although he supposed Taliesin and Fael-Inis would continue the fight , he would never know its outcome . |
| 2 | However I could not become a sperm donor ( Letters NI 189 ) , especially if this would mean I would never know my child or the woman who bore it . |
| 3 | I 've got a little baby boy , he 's eight months now — he 'll never know his daddy , will he |
| 4 | ‘ Wherever you are now , Beth , I hope you never know your father 's unhappiness . |
| 5 | Alan himself had never known his mother . |
| 6 | We all called her Nanny ; I never knew her name . |
| 7 | Jasmine Roberta never knew her father , gunner Bobby Curtis . |
| 8 | She never knew her father . |
| 9 | There was one I used to pick in another field years ago , a purple flower with pretty leaves which sometimes turned all colours , but I never knew its name . |
| 10 | I never knew my wife was such a little get up and goer if you like . |
| 11 | You never knew my master , the Lord Godolphin , and I never knew yours . |
| 12 | ‘ You never knew my predecessor , Gronskin , did you ? ’ |
| 13 | I was born in a barn , never knew my father , but was a very goodlooking baby — I could 've won prizes . |
| 14 | Yet I never knew my father when he lived there — only the stories Mrs Appleby used to tell me about his childhood . |
| 15 | I was brought up in a pit village near Bishop Auckland and I never knew my father . |
| 16 | I never knew my father , or indeed who he was . |
| 17 | I never knew my mother . |
| 18 | I never knew my mother because , as I explained , she died on the day I was born . |
| 19 | I never knew his name ; if I wanted to quote him by name , I would have to get permission . |
| 20 | ‘ But you said you never knew his name ? ’ |
| 21 | The poet never knew his grandfather , who ‘ had long been dead ’ when Edward first visited his father 's mother at Swindon in 1888 . |
| 22 | He never knew his father , his uncles were on the fringes of crooked activity and his drunken step-father sold second-hand cars . |