Example sentences of "never know [pron] [pron] be " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Would n't it be better to love like that for a little while than never to know what it is like ? ’ she asked herself silently .
2 I know I 'll never know what it 's really like . ’
3 The pity is that they are missing so much ; for instance , they will never know what it is like to fish a small stream , or any river except perhaps a sluggish canal-like one .
4 I shall never know what it was . "
5 If you do n't write , you 'll never know what you 're missing !
6 Erm and when she was talking to me about different people , I 'd never know who they was , because I was never I was never that interested in Bay to er to find out who they was or to remember she 'd point out somebody and say that 's so and so and then when she 'd mention him a couple of days later I 'd go , Who 's that ?
7 You never know what they are when
8 I never know what it was to , not do anything , go , go to the doctor 's and be bad or anything like that .
9 ‘ Jesus Christ , you never know what you 're going to wake up with .
10 You never know what you 're gon na get in there do you ?
11 Do n't you agree that you never know what you are going to find there but on the other hand if you ignore the expiry date and crunch it all up with a lot of jam , or even a lot of Nivea , it all goes down the red lane and things start to brighten up ?
12 He fields a steady stream of enquiries , not only from visitors — ‘ You never know what you are going to be asked next ’ — but from the growing number of researchers aware of his expertise and experience .
13 The closest analogy I can think of is that it is very much like fishing , you never know what you are going to catch , you have to pull in the small ones when you are hoping for the big one , but occasionally a big one comes along when you least expect it .
14 I never know what she 's going to do next .
15 Oh no , you never know what he 's doing !
16 Her definitive reply was ‘ Because when he comes into a room I never know what he is going to say . ’
17 ‘ I 've never known what they were up to .
18 So I can honestly say that I 've never known anyone who 's ever played for Leeds .
19 So I can honestly say that I 've never known anyone who 's ever played for Leeds .
20 However , since in this situation customers never knew what they were buying , the scheme did n't last very long .
21 People never knew what they were doing properly when they were drunk .
22 You never knew him , you never knew what he was like … ’
23 Except that his face , with those tobacco-stained looking eyes and drooping moustache , was always the same and you never knew what he was thinking .
24 One never knew what she was going to do next .
25 He says it was very exciting to work with her because he never knew what she was going to do from one take to another .
26 Hakim said he never knew what it was going to be used for next ; on an organisation chart he left a column for Africa , since North had hinted that he might one day do something there too .
27 He also lit the fires ; and ‘ we never knew what it was to clean boots or shoes .
28 Ye never knew what it was to have a dacent meal in yer belly until ye married me ! ’
29 A wonderful time for children , but not so good for thousands in cities , nor for the countrymen who lived at subsistence level , and never knew what it was to have a holiday .
30 So until then , I just could n't see , but , of course , I did n't realize that I could n't see and it was all a blur , because I never knew what it was like to see objects in focus .
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