Example sentences of "[det] i know [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until she 's done that I know I wo n't get any sense out of her . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't really know you , Tsu Ma , but I know this much I know you would defy the world to get what you wanted . ’ |
| 3 | For all I know they may have been part-time MPs , or they may have had a limited electorate to represent . |
| 4 | But this shows that today , for all I knew , it was not going to rain , and how can we allow that I know that it will rain when for all I know it wo n't ? |
| 5 | The present text , his first novel , strikes me as amusing , irritating , and impressive in about equal degrees , and for all I know it might well have been composed rather than written ; certainly it seems to have been constructed in 64 chapters based on the hexagrams of the I Ching — it is subtitled A Novel of Changes , in case anyone should miss this — with frequent references to Marco Polo 's own writings , in Ronald Latham 's Penguin translation . |
| 6 | It was to have been the IRA 's biggest gun-running plot ever , but it was foiled because of what was called ‘ Operation Leprechaun ’ , where the CIA , our MI5 and Irish Intelligence took a healthy — or unhealthy , it all depends on your point of view — interest in the activities of Noraid , an Irish-American group that specialized — for all I know it may still be specializing — in buying American arms and shipping them to the IRA in Ireland . |
| 7 | ‘ For all I know he 'll have disappeared already , ’ I said as we went downstairs . |
| 8 | For all I know he may be as fresh and innocent as the dawn 's early dew . ’ |
| 9 | For all I knew she might have been a psycho or a girl with a little blackmail on her mind . |