Example sentences of "would [not/n't] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their grown-ups however , who might well , in the middle of their GCSE year , object to a Monday evening of socialising , would not know these things . |
| 2 | Thirdly , our young painter would not know of any other artistic centre beside Paris and would not imagine that such a place might exist . |
| 3 | She then carried on ‘ as normal ’ , even buying dressings for her mother 's legs so her father would not know she had died , Mr Hall said . |
| 4 | He would not know what to do if her eyes told him to stay when Buddie had given him permission to leave . |
| 5 | But , she thought , I might be called back and I would not know what to say , I do not want to go amongst mad people , to have them stare at me , to see the unpleasantness of a lot of geriatric cases . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps disease is not the correct medical term , I would not know . |
| 7 | She felt frightened and strange as she thought of greeting her first-born , who would not know her and might recoil with horror and cry for Ellen . |
| 8 | Mr Widdup said he would not know what to do with ‘ the ludicrous amount of money ’ . |
| 9 | He pointed out that schools which took up the offer would not know in advance how much the discount would save them . |
| 10 | Guy 's parents asked if he would live , and were told that he would , but that the doctors would not know how much brain damage he might have suffered until he came out of the coma and regained consciousness . |
| 11 | Defects from bad workmanship were potentially higher , and serious accidental damage after occupation could arise because the occupier either would not know the house was timber-framed or would not be aware of its consequences — even attempting to hang a picture could cause potentially serious damage . |
| 12 | There would be abut 20 people in and they would not know what was going on , ’ says Solowka . |
| 13 | Through this type of analysis we may discover that there is a relationship between certain socioeconomic inputs and political outputs , but we would not know how or why this relationship exists . |
| 14 | The mothers were asked to avoid cow 's milk , and were then challenged with it in a disguised form , so that they would not know when they were drinking milk and when they were drinking the ‘ control ’ substance . |
| 15 | There are so many needs that without a priority structure we would not know where to begin or when to say ‘ no ’ . |
| 16 | Similarly a plate of biscuits may not contain enough for ‘ one each ’ and children would not know until each had taken one or they had run out . |
| 17 | It is unlikely that we ever achieve an exact match between intention and interpretation , and we probably would not know it if we did . |
| 18 | Father would not know what integrity was if it sneaked up and bit his backside . |
| 19 | A woman from another tribe might not easily fit into her partner 's home environment , where she would not know the language and where the local women might not accept her . |
| 20 | There is nothing here that a good social worker with families , for example , would not know about . |
| 21 | ‘ The writer of this article lives a long way from Washington and would not know the answers to these questions . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Among those who moved in , covering his windows at night with blankets so that the police would not know anyone was living there , was Robert Indiana — who quoted Melville 's rousing exhortation CIRCUMAMBULATE THE CITY in one of the works he painted there . |
| 24 | A large venture capital organisation , who refused to comment on individual headhunter performance , wrote that on the whole good candidates had been put forward , but that they would not know if there had been any leaks or illegal use of information by search firms . |
| 25 | Lexington refers to me in ‘ Young King Clinton ’ ( April 10th ) , as a friend of the president who is ‘ so steeped in foreign policy that [ I ] would not know an HMO from a hole in the ground . ’ |
| 26 | I quote — ‘ Nowadays though , young musicians come into places where older musicians are playing and they play a body of tunes which the older player would not know . |
| 27 | In particular , we would not know what it was about consciousness that gave rise to its falling under the given kinds of statement . |
| 28 | Again , because of the nature of the allegations and counter-allegations , it seems probable that the hearing would be lengthy and bitter , and in view of their ages it seems to me impossible that the children would not know all about the hearing and the issues raised by it and be caught up in that bitterness . |
| 29 | It would be confused and afraid , and would not know how to find food . |
| 30 | The eagle had never hunted and surely would not know how . |