Example sentences of "know no [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a tiring mind can know no rest . ’ |
| 2 | The lack of any precise boundaries between the three closely-interwoven ethnic groups leads most observers to believe that Bosnia 's civil war will know no bounds , with the battle front cutting through villages and streets . |
| 3 | Ixmarity would know no bounds , if we could only learn his secret . |
| 4 | erm The fashions that sweep through different countries , educational technology was one , the independent learning movement was another , those kinds of fashions seem to know no frontiers , and one finds arguments being repeated in Stockholm very much as they were advanced in erm Brighton or in Tokyo or in other places . |
| 5 | Was n't it hard enough on that poor child to know no parents , to be totally disowned by her relations up in Westlands , to be brought up an orphan in the convent in second-hand clothes , and sent to a secretarial course when she had her heart set on going to university without being mown down by a car on her first week . |
| 6 | Four assassins stood before him and pledged to know no rest till they brought him Alarielle 's corpse . |
| 7 | you ruin your chances so about three times a week the comes in to arrange my poll tax and all this and they get going you know well why should a bloke that having a big house and he only pays the same rate as them so I said , well it 's like this as far I 'm concerned I said you know no bloke works perhaps twice as many hours as you do he chooses |
| 8 | Sir : A few hours after reading Terry Coleman 's article on the United Nations General Assembly ( 30 September ) , I came across this passage in Trollope 's Barchester Towers , which exactly expressed my feelings , and , I hope , those of many others of your readers : I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for the newspapers … to thunder forth accusations against men in power ; show up the worst side of everything that is produced ; to pick holes in every coat ; to be indignant , sarcastic , jocose , moral , or supercilious ; to damn with faint praise , or crush with open calumny . |
| 9 | ‘ I know no man since the apostles ’ days , ’ wrote Baxter , ‘ whom I honour more than Calvin , and whose judgment in all things , one with another , I more esteem and come nearer to . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I know no man big enough to fill it . ’ |
| 11 | , you know no difficulty . |
| 12 | Oh well it just packed up you know no eggs and that was that . |
| 13 | Simon you know no go , ah ! |
| 14 | I know no England bowlers swing an old ball in the way Waqar and I do , but that is down to the way we grip it . |
| 15 | When it comes to helping you arrive in better shape , we know no boundaries . |
| 16 | See she still brings that dog up the school and it says on that paper you know no dogs allowed in the school . |
| 17 | But up to your right , where the estuary flows into the sea , that 's Mr Swinton 's land and although I know no harm in him myself , they say — they say he does n't like trespassers , Miss Alexandra . |
| 18 | I know no touch of consanguinity — No kin , no love , no blood , no soul so near me As the sweet Troilus . |
| 19 | ‘ You said you know no reason why you should care . ’ |
| 20 | I know no reason why you should be . ’ |
| 21 | I know no reason to be ashamed of it . |
| 22 | These streets an' these bloody awful shops , an' the muck an' filth an' every thin' second best because folk know no thin' better . |
| 23 | ‘ I know no difference between this case and that of a mandamus . |
| 24 | A route not to take unless you know no fear , is to walk straight up the sweeping southern flanks of the hill , which will leave you giddy and hanging on to craggy , near-vertical terrain with your teeth . |
| 25 | He know no fear , ’ Felicity chanted . |
| 26 | The plain fact of Christian experience is that many people have held a strong theology of assurance but have known no assurance themselves . |
| 27 | In truth there was no connection , for my original family name was Sillitoe , but , long before I was born , my father had adopted Breakspear as his stage name and I had really known no other . |
| 28 | He 'd have known no offence was meant . ’ |
| 29 | Their affair had known no conscience . |
| 30 | For Korean residents who have known no home other than Japan these regulations are considered particularly insulting . |