Example sentences of "if [pers pn] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | When all I could reply were the two forlorn words , ‘ No English , ’ he asked me if I knew French . |
| 2 | He taunted me , asking me if I knew what was going to happen to me on my wedding night . |
| 3 | If I knew the way back , then I could walk , but I do n't think I know the way from here . |
| 4 | I would feel bad if I knew for certain that someone was going to cosh me with a lead pipe on January 15 of that year . |
| 5 | The first time he ever asked me if I knew where he could get ‘ coke ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Depends — I mean , if I knew I had a team coming of course I 'd tell her . |
| 7 | People feel something like this : ‘ If I knew I did everything I possibly could then I would n't feel so bad after he 's gone ’ . |
| 8 | We had lost the press buses and one of the Gofers , a merchant banker , came up to me on the tarmac to ask if I knew where they were . |
| 9 | Pensively I roamed through a housing estate , stopped by a bearded man who asked me if I knew where Number Fifty was . |
| 10 | ‘ Although if I knew them and I wanted a nice picture — smiling , arms around each other — I would call out to them , but not before I reached the third frame . ’ |
| 11 | If I knew the answer I would put it right . |
| 12 | If I knew any . |
| 13 | On my negative but friendly response they asked if I knew I was trespassing . |
| 14 | That left me with dozens of portly gentlemen in blue who spent the rest of the night eating my shortbread , drinking my coffee and asking me if I knew Terry Wogan . |
| 15 | Since they had n't spotted me earlier , there was no embarrassment attached to my circuitous ramble and I hailed them with a tone of voice that sounded as if I knew what I was doing . |
| 16 | ‘ If I knew I would n't be asking you , and if I did n't know her inside out I would have said she was worried about something . ’ |
| 17 | I caught myself wondering how I would feel if I knew I was being transfused with the blood of someone of 85 : would it be strong enough ? |
| 18 | And if there 's something about him that would be useful if I knew , please will he tell you , to tell me . ’ |
| 19 | I wouldn't 've talked that way if I knew that . ’ |
| 20 | Look , if I knew who he was I might know where he was , OK ? ’ |
| 21 | Some time before he had asked me if I knew this most neglected of novelists , coming up to talk to me in a blue-green Athenian bar from which he was almost at once to be evicted for a splendid falsetto rendering of ‘ The Lost Chord ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ If I knew my future and that I would never be No 1 I think I 'd tell myself to forget it . |
| 23 | ‘ League is a fabulous game but I 've never liked it and if I knew what I know now , I would never have left Pontypool . |
| 24 | ‘ If I knew what had to arrive I would tell you . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ No , ’ she said , then she asked me if I knew anything about them . |
| 26 | I 've been wondering if I knew you . ’ |
| 27 | Suddenly , out o' the blue , 'e asked me if I knew the Tunnel Mob . |
| 28 | He had wanted to know if I knew a good cardiologist , because he had a granddaughter with a rare heart condition who needed an operation , or else in a year 's time she would have died . |
| 29 | as if I knew ! |
| 30 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |