Example sentences of "know [subord] i [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you , I do n't know if I can be bothered for twenty five pounds , no I would if she asked me , but I do n't know if I 'll bother ringing up as well |
| 2 | I do n't think so , I do n't know if I 'll find it . |
| 3 | Erm Oh I do n't know if I 'll buy it . |
| 4 | I do n't know if I shall join the company yet , I may do , I may go to Paris , I may die , my face may even turn blue . |
| 5 | " I thought of that , " said Clara , " but I do n't know if I would want to teach . |
| 6 | But I still do n't know if I would want to return here . ’ |
| 7 | I do view this as one of the ‘ great classics but I do not know if I would say it is the greatest book ever written in English as I have not yet read widely enough but I would definitely say that for all the above reasons that it is a great book . |
| 8 | He says : ‘ I do n't know if I would have been slightly criminal , but would not have been a very nice human being . |
| 9 | I do n't actually know if I would have been best friends with her had I not met her before , but we get along well now , + are well suited . |
| 10 | I did n't know if I could go through with it . |
| 11 | ‘ Sorry , ’ said Benny , ‘ I did n't know if I could walk or not . ’ |
| 12 | Do n't know if I could do the electric one definitely Guess that 's about whether the I 'd like one of them , one of them and yeah but we do n't know when it can be delivered , so we ca n't do it that early you ca n't say yeah but but er we 'll let you know , well we can so it 's there that 's what we wish , they 'd the bills go and we 'll let you know when you can be the keys can be available for you to put it in . |
| 13 | Well , it makes a very good tale , only I do n't know if I could remember any of it ’ He beamed on Taliesin , and then said in an aside to Fribble that he had never yet heard of a Tyrian who did n't judge his wine remarkably well . |
| 14 | I did n't know if I could work with a choreographer . |
| 15 | Celia hesitated and then plunged on : ‘ I do n't know if I should mention this , but Yorick was very upset that Ivor was n't there . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , then I do n't know if I should tell you . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't know if I should wake you . |
| 18 | Bob knocked back his coffee , and I was about to stand when he said , ‘ Listen , Alex , I do n't know if I should say this to a poet , but there are some things a damn sight more urgent than the doggerel of a dead country squire . |
| 19 | I do n't know if I 'd do it again , though . |
| 20 | I do n't know if I 'd want to stay in teaching , I 'd quite like to have my own nursery school . |
| 21 | I remember absolutely one hundred percent doing that , and I have to say that if I was faced with a similar situation again of a naked man , I really do n't know if I 'd bother to put his trousers on . |
| 22 | I do n't know if I 'd wan na do that every day . |
| 23 | I do n't know if I 'd become good at it but I think |
| 24 | I 'd like to move near him , but I 'd have to get on the Council list and I do n't know if I 'd qualify . ’ |
| 25 | I do n't even know if I 'd like to jump them . |
| 26 | Er I do n't know if I can answer that I suspect not . |
| 27 | I do n't know if I can answer that to be absolutely honest I I mean I really feel that erm that would be reading too much into the decision that that our members took at that time . |
| 28 | I do n't know if I can carry on now . |
| 29 | Let me know if I can do anything . ’ |
| 30 | books here , yeah , I just , read them , I do n't know if I can do it I |