Example sentences of "i [vb mod] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must know by the middle of October who wants to come , phone on evening only . |
| 2 | 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 . " ) |
| 3 | ‘ Is there anything I should know in order to ask the right questions ? ’ |
| 4 | I should know by now that heavy drinkers are awfully fond of high-flown rationalisations for any brief spell of abstinence . |
| 5 | Well , I might know about owls but I would n't claim to know much about anything else . |
| 6 | Think I might know about it do you ? |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll know for certain in about an hour . |
| 8 | ‘ If I 'm here , ’ Rabbi Moishe replied , in the sing-song voice he would adopt to explain a point in the Torah , ‘ I 'll know about it sooner . |
| 9 | I tell myself that I 'll know in the morning but still I lie awake . |
| 10 | She sat bushy-tailed for the day at a table with two men , one her husband ( ‘ You 'd think I 'd know by now after thirty-eight years what he likes for his breakfast ’ ) , the other a distant cousin , I decided . |
| 11 | Being a parent ai n't easy ( not that I 'd know from experience ) , and baby-sitting for other people is even worse ( I know that from experience ) . |
| 12 | " None of my crew would , I 'd know instantly , " I told him , " I 'm a non-smoker and if anybody smoked in my aircraft I would know at once . |
| 13 | I expected you to come after me , I prayed you would so that I would know for sure that you really wanted me , but you did n't . |
| 14 | Perhaps if I try again I shall know for sure . ’ |
| 15 | Well no no but I mean , if we limit it to two for the first day , and a I mean I shall know by eleven o'clock |
| 16 | Erm I have as I say one other if you like self-employed business opportunity that I have been pursuing erm which erm I shall know after Tuesday of next week . |
| 17 | ‘ There goes all I will know of God in life , ’ she once said of him . |
| 18 | ‘ I will know within the next month or two how I stand . |
| 19 | said I will know within forty eight hours and we thought we Tuesday you see |