Example sentences of "never have known " in BNC.
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| 1 | YOU would never have known that Klaus Tennstedt had been ill in his life . |
| 2 | The child might never have known his or her grandfather nor seen the small piece of land that made him a landlord , yet the child remained stubbornly a landlord in official eyes decades after land reform . |
| 3 | If God had removed all obstacles , I would never have known . |
| 4 | But together with the other matters , it raises the possibility that she may never have known Daniel at all . ’ |
| 5 | During the process , however , I have learnt so much about myself which I would never have known otherwise . |
| 6 | Behind his scowling manner was a kindly old man and if it had n't been for the arrival of a rather insipid little boy , she might never have known , nor might anyone else for that matter . |
| 7 | The public and Parliament might never have known about the payment , even though Premier John Major has pledged a new age of open Government , Labour MPs angrily pointed out . |
| 8 | If anything had caught him then , he would never have known it . |
| 9 | And unless for some reason you had started a discussion with her about literature or mathematics , you would never have known the extent of her brain-power . |
| 10 | Housewife Rita Davis , of Ilford , Essex , said : ‘ We would never have known what our taxes are going on if it was not for the Mirror . ’ |
| 11 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 12 | If you had n't been next door here , you 'd never have known . " |
| 13 | The only person who ever explained what the operation was for was the nurse at the hospital , or I would never have known . |
| 14 | In truth she would never have known . |
| 15 | She often worried about her feelings for David , but the thought that she might never have known him made her feel almost ill . |
| 16 | Thorny uses all kinds of things I would never have known about , she finds fungi in the woods , horrible brown oozing stuff , and cooks them so that you would never know . |
| 17 | Devlin Parnham was in his seventies but apart from the sparsity of his frame and a slight tendency to stoop you would never have known it . |
| 18 | A feature that I would never have known about otherwise . |
| 19 | ‘ If fate had n't intervened , I might never have known . ’ |
| 20 | She might never have known . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'd never have known , if it had n't been for the tissue-typing , ’ Celia pointed out . |
| 22 | I had a twin sister I might never have known about . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd never have known . ’ |
| 24 | Oh bloody fair are n't you ? she 'd might never have known whose giving fair . |
| 25 | would never have known that would you ? |
| 26 | They say maths and science are his strength subjects well I 'd never have known that if he was still over there ! |
| 27 | I went well observed ! you know I would never have known |
| 28 | In many ways they differ , these two Americas , but they are alike in never having known defeat . |
| 29 | According to conventional wisdom , it is more of a strain to give up something than it is to endure , never having known it . |
| 30 | I , too , felt guilty for never having known poverty . |