Example sentences of "[pron] know no [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir : A few hours after reading Terry Coleman 's article on the United Nations General Assembly ( 30 September ) , I came across this passage in Trollope 's Barchester Towers , which exactly expressed my feelings , and , I hope , those of many others of your readers : I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for the newspapers … to thunder forth accusations against men in power ; show up the worst side of everything that is produced ; to pick holes in every coat ; to be indignant , sarcastic , jocose , moral , or supercilious ; to damn with faint praise , or crush with open calumny . |
| 2 | ‘ I know no man since the apostles ’ days , ’ wrote Baxter , ‘ whom I honour more than Calvin , and whose judgment in all things , one with another , I more esteem and come nearer to . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I know no man big enough to fill it . ’ |
| 4 | I know no touch of consanguinity — No kin , no love , no blood , no soul so near me As the sweet Troilus . |
| 5 | But up to your right , where the estuary flows into the sea , that 's Mr Swinton 's land and although I know no harm in him myself , they say — they say he does n't like trespassers , Miss Alexandra . |
| 6 | I know no reason why you should be . ’ |
| 7 | I know no reason to be ashamed of it . |
| 8 | ‘ I know no difference between this case and that of a mandamus . |
| 9 | I knew no fear . |
| 10 | ‘ I knew no good would come of such a marriage , ’ she said . |
| 11 | As Hannah Arendt has shown , in times of crisis the existence of a formless mass can become the basis for a totalitarian dictatorship ; in times of prosperity it can lead to an all-encompassing smugness and self-satisfaction and to the existence of a regime which knows no criticism , no control and , above all , no real opposition and thus no arguments which contain alternatives . |
| 12 | , you know no difficulty . |
| 13 | you ruin your chances so about three times a week the comes in to arrange my poll tax and all this and they get going you know well why should a bloke that having a big house and he only pays the same rate as them so I said , well it 's like this as far I 'm concerned I said you know no bloke works perhaps twice as many hours as you do he chooses |
| 14 | Simon you know no go , ah ! |
| 15 | ‘ You said you know no reason why you should care . ’ |
| 16 | A route not to take unless you know no fear , is to walk straight up the sweeping southern flanks of the hill , which will leave you giddy and hanging on to craggy , near-vertical terrain with your teeth . |
| 17 | The expression of pain in his face became something else entirely : in some part horror , in some part awe , but in the greatest part some sentiment for which she knew no word . |
| 18 | She said many a wicked word , and many a cruel word ; she knew no virtue or goodness , she desired all wickedness ; like as the spirits tempted her to say and do , so she said and did ’ . |
| 19 | She knew no good would come of this . |
| 20 | Although she knew no amount of imagination would take her away from this prison , for fleeting moments she did manage to escape into her book . |
| 21 | Since negotiations failed and the rebellion , once supported by England , could only be defeated by increasing injections of Napoleon 's soldiers and money , the ideal of an independent civil government appealing to hearts , in Joseph 's phrase , was rejected by the emperor and his generals who knew no law but military necessity . |
| 22 | It was the cry to let them be ; from one who knew no sin came the plea from the heart of humanity , ‘ Have mercy on us . ’ |
| 23 | Should a traveller , returning from a far country , bring us an account of men wholly different from any with whom we were ever acquainted ; men who were entirely divested of vice , ambition , or revenge ; who knew no pleasure but friendship , generosity , and public spirit ; we should immediately , from these circumstances , detect the falsehood , and prove him a liar , with the same certainty as if he ha[d] stuffed his narration with stories of centaurs and dragons , miracles and prodigies ( quoted in Freeman 1984 : 95 ) . |
| 24 | And you will hear most of all about the abattoir man , the evil , cold-hearted villain who knows no pity ! ’ |
| 25 | Who knows no time , our nosy cause and guide : |
| 26 | who knows no shame because his actions are true , |
| 27 | God , who does not need reconciling , becomes the Reconciler ; God , who does not need appeasing , becomes our peace ; God , who knows no sin , becomes sin for us — by whose stripes and wounds we are healed . |
| 28 | But these vile tasks were as welcome to them for they knew no love of God nor worship of Him . |
| 29 | He know no fear , ’ Felicity chanted . |
| 30 | And , as in business he knew no way of earning by his own labour , so in his relationship with them he knew no means of restoring himself by his own effort . |