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Example sentences for "know but"

  • I don't know but he worries almost too much.

  • I don't know but I said mo'n I ought, now.

  • Fust off, I didn't know but it was one of them foreign dukes come ova he'a to marry some oua poor millionai'es daughtas.

  • I don't know but I can," Clementina faltered.

  • Why, yes, I don't know but there is, though.

  • I don't know but I'd almost rather be 'town crank' than that.

  • I don't know but I am, a little, now you remind me of it," he admitted.

  • I don't know but what 'tis warped a little, but nothin' to speak of.

  • I do' know but I shall be afeared to go home," and she laughed uneasily.

  • I find every man interesting, whether he thinks or unthinks, whether he is savage or civilized; for this reason I cannot thank the novelist who teaches us not to know but to unknow our kind.

  • The three rings are an abuse and an outrage, but I don't know but I object still more to the silencing of the clowns.

  • I didn't know but I'd been trying to convert you without knowing it.

  • And the otha day, there in Venice when you we'e sick, and you seemed to think that I might put off stahting home till the next steamer, I don't know but I let you believe I would.

  • I don't know but I had," assented the sacrifice, upon whose countenance sat a placidity that had not been there since the night of the "matching.

  • I don't know but it's somewheres around now.

  • I don't know but I'd 'bout as liefs be drownded as make sech a show of myself.

  • I don' know but he done more'n he'd ought.

  • I didn't know but it was some course of treatment.

  • I asked him if he had any to spare, and he cocked his eye at me and replied that he didn't know but he had.

  • But at the risk of offending her, he added: "I didn't know but he might have come over.

  • Well, I don't know but he did cross my mind.

  • And I don't know but that I am, but I can't help it.

  • In fact, I don't know but what it's only just beginning.

  • You didn't know but what I had given George specific reason for his act.

  • I don't know but what it's a saint's name also.

  • How did I know but that he had sons and daughters, or nephews away at school!

  • In all earth's realms so fair, It hath been my lot to know but one, Who with mighty Caesar could compare; And of yore thou called'st him thy son.

  • I know but little of love; but that to rend its bonds must be a bitter grief I can well believe!

  • I know but of one way of making what I send you useful, which is, by sending you a blank sheet: sure you would not grudge threepence for a halfpenny sheet, when you give as much for one not worth a farthing.

  • As to Tartini's[1] musical compositions, ask Gray; I know but little in music.

  • I didn't know but he might be anxious to see--to see her, you know.

  • One time there I didn't know but I'd have to reef, cal'late I would if I'd known how to reef an automobile.

  • I don't know but she's fell into the brook, or got run over.

  • I don't know but I should," thought Jasper, as he noticed how light and frail the little canoe was, and how a slight motion would agitate it.

  • Yes, I don't know but I do; perhaps a little more languid, but that is not unusual.

  • I don't know but it might be best for me to turn round and go back again to school without going to the house at all; but I must face this thing, and see for myself.

  • I don't know but I'd better try to keep dead again.

  • I didn't know but he was here till I just looked in.

  • Only you know some men don't fancy having a boy put in as boss over them; and he is one of the new hands, and I didn't know but he was cranky.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "know but" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bore away; exhorting them; intimate acquaintance; know already; know good and evil; know just; know more; know none; know not; know something; know the; know they; know what; know what you are; know when; know where; know whether; know you; knowledge and; known from; known lines; known story; known through; known under the name; lower order; seventeenth century