Example sentences of "know [pron] would be [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How did you know there would be drugs here ? ’ |
| 2 | ’ ‘ I would n't have come , ’ said the soldier , who would not have missed it for worlds , ‘ I would n't have come if I 'd known there would be Druids squashing and glooming . |
| 3 | Raking the comb through cropped curls that gleamed like polished mahogany , Polly tried to stifle her doubts and the nagging feeling that somehow she should have known there would be strings attached to Clive 's offer no matter how much he protested otherwise . |
| 4 | Both he and Mr Balladur knew there would be strains between them . |
| 5 | Then , knowing it would be hours before he woke , he got up and fetched his wei chi set , smoothing the cloth ‘ board ’ out on the floor before him then setting the bowls to either side , the white stones to his left , the black to his right . |