Example sentences of "know it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know it may disturb many people sitting conmfortably at home . |
| 2 | If you have a child , OK , you know it may die of illness or accident — but is n't it different , if you know the whole world might be blown up and poisoned ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I know it may sound corny , but it happens to be true . |
| 4 | Cos the way he has his house it 's like er been a okay he 's off er , I know it may sound nasty what I say about him , but he 's alright , he 's a good guy like , his house is a bit of a upside down place , like |
| 5 | ‘ I know it may seem a trite remark , ’ he answered , slowly , and there was a harshness in his voice she had never heard before , ‘ but mothers usually know best . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I know it may seem ludicrous when you look at what we have now , to talk about hard times . |
| 7 | After the many modifications subsequently made to his scheme , the STV as we know it would ensure the subservience of all of them . |
| 8 | Whatever the reasons for your action , you know it would earn goodwill — IM |
| 9 | If I was charged for all that I get , I know it would cost too much for me to pay . |
| 10 | Daddy , you know it would break my heart , if anything happened to you . |
| 11 | Relegation is a swear word at Wimbledon because we know it would threaten our existence . |
| 12 | I know it would help to talk to someone but I find it so hard to open up . |
| 13 | you know er it helps if erm it helps if the groups that you 're comparing between there 's about sort of at least twenty people in each sort of thing , erm and the same goes for things like , things that you might want to do squares on or something like that erm so I mean if you were interested in comparing people who attended very regularly with people who only attended once in a while erm you know it would help if there were about sort of more than forty people altogether so that there was sort of , you know |
| 14 | We know it would have been possible to have left the switch alone but — given a bit of forward planning and some wire — to have completed an ad hoc electrical circuit so that the wipers did start to work , just as and when they did . |
| 15 | I can remember it well , it was lit by gas e even in these days you know it would have been all electric light but it was gas and er we had erm , I would go for engineering drawing and maths probably I think . |
| 16 | I know , I know it would have done |
| 17 | product , we 've just got one row for one product at the moment but in the future you might want to insert another row and er the product B and then all I would need to do is just copy the formula down and I know it would work cos I made it copyable down as well . |
| 18 | Behind Psychic TV exists an occult , disparate breed of hipsters heavily into Gary Glitter , early Sabbath , Arthur Brown , Grateful Dead just because they know it would scandalize the prevailing arbiters of taste . |
| 19 | It 's just that you know it might do some good . |
| 20 | Well when , that 's what I said to , er Paula people should always go to that village shop because in the long run I know it might cost you more , but the hassle and everything , the only thing is they have n't got the variety |
| 21 | You know it might land on her her bed , see if it landed on our bed at least you can chuck the blankets off and protect her and take her out of the room , but when she 's in her own bedroom in a single bed you ca n't , you ca n't do things like that . |
| 22 | And our our the baby she sleeps in bed with us , you know cos we 're frightened in case owt gets bunged through the window , you know it might hit her , so we put her in bed with us . |
| 23 | Turn that number three up to number four might be just sometime a the ther you know it might need it on number four . |
| 24 | I mean I know it 'll do it , |
| 25 | We know it 'll work . |
| 26 | Will ultimately go through the solution that you 're looking at , in terms of optical activity it comes out t' other end , cos light tends to do that , you know it 'll come t' other end and at this end , after going through a length system etcetera , will be a an eyeball . |
| 27 | From Table 3.2 we know it could do this by lending to banks or by buying government securities from them . |
| 28 | It was a worry when we did n't get a pension and when it did come , it alleviated things , but we know it could run out in the New Year . |
| 29 | It says : ‘ Self-regulation as we know it will end if the executive rules against you . ’ |
| 30 | We know it will end in tears , but Peter O'Toole and Tara Fitzgerald simply sizzle while they keep their faltering affair alive in OUR SONG ( Apollo Theatre ) , Keith Waterhouse 's searing study of forbidden modern romance . |