Example sentences of "could have know " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't even back her under my name , so I do n't understand how they could have known . ’ |
| 2 | The Odiham Society knew of Clark , and could have known of his views on the education of farriers , before it received copies of Vial 's plan on 5 August 1790 . |
| 3 | No one could have known that he no longer heard the park sounds for the pounding in his temples , or that his feet felt iron-clad as he walked away from the woman he longed to hold in his arms . |
| 4 | No-one could have known that she was going to bring them for the weekend . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ If this is true , I do n't see how Quinn could have known about it . |
| 6 | She wished the dead ones could have known that . |
| 7 | It was the only way she could have known , unless Mary had phoned . |
| 8 | There 's dozens of ways she could have known . ’ |
| 9 | Only Rob could have known seven . ’ |
| 10 | Few among them could have known what the job entailed . |
| 11 | Noting that the lens and pupil of the eye were ‘ so finely shaped and fitted for vision that no artist can mend them , ’ Newton asked whether blind chance could have known sufficient of light and its refraction to have effected the design . |
| 12 | If only she could have known how much I cared . |
| 13 | If he could have known that he was a workhouse orphan , perhaps he would have cried even more loudly . |
| 14 | ‘ There 's no way they could have known there was another letter . ’ |
| 15 | Besides , neither of them could have known how many there were . ’ |
| 16 | A bird pecking at food grains could have known without learning what food looks like , or it could have learnt it . |
| 17 | I 'm finding out things about her that I never could have known . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He could have known where she was going . ’ |
| 19 | He argued in particular that Plato could have known the Torah because there was an older translation than that patronized by Ptolemy Philadelphus . |
| 20 | There were details to her description she could have known no other way . ’ |
| 21 | She flushed , almost as if he could have known the part he 'd played in her extraordinarily sensual dreams . |
| 22 | ‘ As far as I 'm concerned , the whole world could have known about it . ’ |
| 23 | In this I was happily to be proved wrong , but who could have known that at the time ? |
| 24 | Rupert had not specified what the ‘ friends ’ consisted of , so nobody could have known about the anthropological colleague and his wife and their children aged seven , five , and three , or pictured Rupert going to church alone on Christmas morning , helping to wash up after the adequate but plain Christmas dinner , spending the evening talking shop , and retiring early to his hard uncomfortable bed . |
| 25 | ‘ These pictures had never been published so there was no way she could have known who the people were . ’ |
| 26 | If the price has been fixed on the basis that a particular fact is correct , the acquirer will agree that the risk of it not being so , even if no one could have known , should fall on the seller , since the seller will have been paid a price which assumed that the warranty was correct ; although no doubt the seller will point out that the business is being bought as a going concern and a business can not be carried on without risk . |
| 27 | How Prince could have known the thoughts of almost three hundred people is difficult to imagine , but it was not an opinion held by John Edward Gray of the British Museum , nor of Lord Derby . |
| 28 | Poor Jacob would have marvelled if he could have known that he was the focus of so much activity . |
| 29 | However , the letter contained information that only the killer could have known , he said . |
| 30 | But the tragedy is she could have known those blessings all through those years , if she had never left if she had never gone down to Moab . |