Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] [modal v] [adv] know " in BNC.

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1 I 'm scared to death half the time that when I do start talking about the woman in my life that I wo n't know where to stop , and … ’
2 He argued that I can not know that my diary is in the ( closed ) bottom drawer of my desk unless I have reason to believe that my experience makes that proposition probable ; we can suppose , perhaps , that my relevant experience is that I remember having put the diary there five minutes ago and that I do not remember having touched the drawer since , together with my general knowledge of the consistent behaviour of the experienced world .
3 SHE had feared that she would not know him any more … that his 1,943 days of hell as a hostage would have left them strangers .
4 Says Renate Olins , director of the London Marriage Guidance Council , ‘ It 's entirely understandable that the innocent party is wracked with feelings of such vehemence and passion that she may not know what to do with them . ’
5 Watching her , he became aware of an extraordinary pain at the thought that she could never know how strongly he felt about her .
6 There are tribal things going on there that you would n't know about unless you lived there . ’
7 Thorny uses all kinds of things I would never have known about , she finds fungi in the woods , horrible brown oozing stuff , and cooks them so that you would never know .
8 There are other reasons why babies might be susceptible , and there are a list of things that you may well know about from babies you 're looking after .
9 This is probably a good idea , but it means that you may never know if the food you avoided was indeed the guilty party , because the child is likely to have outgrown the sensitivity by the time the food is eaten again .
10 Your care will mean that you 'll probably know if anything untoward is happening and you 'll be able to deal with any problems early on .
11 So , I 'm warning you , you come near me and there 'll be such an explosion that you wo n't know where you are .
12 That you can never know , or have forgotten
13 But now I see that you can never know too much about safety and that every river is different .
14 ‘ And remember that we may already know it .
15 Should there be an upheaval in the Ingard group now , I fear that we may never know . "
16 Erm i it was strange I know , I ca n't explain it logically , it was just we we certainly we felt in the office that we would somehow know if and when it was gon na happen .
17 Er so obviously there is a lot of undetected crime that we would n't know about .
18 Do you have any special terms that applies to the job that we would n't know about ?
19 A decade ago it would have been inconceivable that we would now know enough about the molecules of cancer to consider genetic intervention .
20 It has to be possible to dream and speak the unthinkable , for the only thing that we do know is that we shall not know what tomorrow 's world will be like .
21 That we shall never know , but the procession and service mark the start of two weeks of celebrations in his name .
22 ‘ And that we should n't know !
23 We still fall well short of that , I mean er it 's bad news that anyone is addicted to drugs but what is important is that we should actually know who is and so we can help them .
24 The point is that we will never know what God can do with us until we 've ventured forward with a little faith .
25 The objections remain that we can not know of them and do not need to postulate them .
26 They all require us to make sense of the realist thought that it is always possible that , unknown to us , the world differs radically from the way it appears to us , and argue from this that we can not know that the world really is the way it appears to us .
27 But they are intended to illustrate the very general point that we can not know in advance the belief systems of the communities we are studying ; an important part of good fieldwork practice is to get to know them and take them into account at all stages of the research , up to and beyond the time of publication .
28 The answer is that we can not know or , rather , that there is no simple solution to this problem .
29 Is there anything that we can really know with certainty ?
30 I do indeed think that we can now know almost nothing concerning the life and personality of Jesus , since the early Christian sources show no interest in either , are moreover fragmentary and often legendary .
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