Example sentences of "know [that] it would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little did we know that it would result in one of the most amazing periods of any of our lives — including David 's I 'm sure . |
| 2 | I 'm glad all your transport users are , are now coming out of the woodwork , but you are the minority in this hundred , now of the majority the car drivers do you feel any resent of responsibility towards users of public transport , I mean there are all manner of er plans afoot to , to slightly further tax or er charge drivers so that roads can be subsidised , I do n't know that it would subsidise public transport , but there are penalties coming up for private car users and drivers , do you approve ? , do you disapprove , do you think that 's fair enough ? , no one 's said any thing about pollution yet , yes |
| 3 | He contemplated eating a meat pie at the stall by the church , but he had enough experience of phantom hunger at night to know that it would disappear of its own accord by morning and that it was best not to squander money on appeasing it . |
| 4 | Suppose that I claimed yesterday to know that it would rain in the afternoon , on the normal grounds ( weather forecast , gathering clouds , etc. ) , but that it turns out that I was wrong . |
| 5 | In the light of the report the Louvre , knowing that it would inherit the Richelieu wing from the Ministry of Finance , due to move to new premises in the east end of Paris , began to study the best way to redistribute its collections . |
| 6 | Knowing what he would find when he went there , and knowing that it would pain him , Edouard delayed the moment when he would make a formal inspection of the house . |
| 7 | Knowing that it would call up the fighter bombers , the convoy scattered into whatever cover could be found . |
| 8 | Knowing that it would annoy Geoffrey , Anthony braced himself for the ensuing argument . |
| 9 | They embraced , but knew that it would go no further . |
| 10 | Partly because , in spite of his professed indifference to the outside world , it nevertheless rankled with Franco that his regime was excluded from all the most important international circles , and he knew that it would continue to be blackballed for as long as it could be accused of denying the Spanish people free choice . |
| 11 | He knew that it would make her feel inferior and stupid and insignificant beside the sultry Domino and her no doubt dazzling sexual experience ! |
| 12 | And as he leaned against the railings he suddenly tasted it , the moment Creed had planned for him , the moment he 'd always longed for , dreaded now , still longed for , and it was burnt sugar , sweet and caustic , on his tongue , it was like the flight of a bird across a window , it was there and it was gone , he could n't dwell on it , he could n't let the terror in , all he knew was what it would do for him , he knew that it would give him membership , he 'd be past the sliding sheet of glass , he 'd finally belong . |
| 13 | She would like to have asked them , but knew that it would have been impossibly presumptuous . |
| 14 | Even after all these years , Laura knew that it would have taken a paragon of virtue not to feel viciously jealous of the svelte , sophisticated woman who had seemed to spend far more time with her husband than she did . |
| 15 | They were a little reluctant to do this , but knew that it would provide an essential rapidly growing windbreak . |
| 16 | Yet he must somehow tear the pain out with his hands or he knew that it would kill him . |
| 17 | ‘ I think I always knew that it would come out one day . |