Example sentences of "[not/n't] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As BS knows everything relevant about the physical state of affairs , the things that he does not know about are not physical states of affairs . |
| 2 | ‘ Lord Aldington did not know about the massacre and brutality . |
| 3 | No secrets and no money , that we do not know about and does not belong to all of us . ’ |
| 4 | You do not know about these things . |
| 5 | Testifying two years later , George thought that meant : ‘ You wo n't tell the CIA ; they must not know about it . ’ |
| 6 | In Darwin 's lifetime , physicists did not know about radioactivity , and therefore thought that the earth would cool down rather quickly . |
| 7 | Here two out of every three farmers/part-time farmers did not know about training activities . |
| 8 | Of course , there were some things she could not know about . |
| 9 | As a result it is hard to think of any technical innovations , whether in the military or civilian field , that Russia does not know about . |
| 10 | In particular , criminal statistics only show what police forces record , and the police clearly can not be expected to record the numerous offences which they do not know about . |
| 11 | When we first arrived home from Hong Kong , we did not know about the aorta problem , so two days after our homecoming Michael went to London for a further two days of meetings . |
| 12 | Is there a cure that they do not know about ? |
| 13 | Given so little space , however , perhaps we need not have been reminded , as we are in Stanley Cramp 's foreword , that ‘ Ducks , geese , and swans live in or near water ’ , nor that the legs of the last two ‘ are placed near the middle of the body , so that the bird stands fairly upright ’ , Malcolm Ogilvie can tell most people something they did not know about wildfowl , but in this case his publishers clearly rushed him . |
| 14 | First , for all the vast span of time of the Triassic , only a few faunas are known ; there must be many others that we do not know about . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , that led to a minor accident involving the property of the Hauxwells which I suspect even Hannah will not know about . |
| 16 | A day later , Edouard still did not know about the baby . |
| 17 | But I am sure that what determined her to write to me was this paragraph : ‘ The author we most admire has rightly said that people do not know about families ; but Stephen and I know . |
| 18 | But she did not know about religion . |
| 19 | One need not know about them to hold them out as a threat . |
| 20 | ‘ And my mother still does not know about it , because she has been so ill . |
| 21 | He did not know Dinah 's handwriting ; there was so much he did not know about her , he told himself , tearing the envelope open urgently . |
| 22 | ‘ Then you 'll not know about saluting the quarterdeck ? ’ |
| 23 | There is nothing here that a good social worker with families , for example , would not know about . |
| 24 | Perhaps it speaks to a part of our mind that does not know about self-control — a part that remembers the time when we were entirely in someone else 's power and they , in a certain sense , were in ours . |
| 25 | Someone who did not know about the Müller-Lyer illusion being an illusion might well say , ‘ AB is shorter than BC ’ ( if the appearance was not misleading in this way we would not call it an ‘ illusion ’ ) . |
| 26 | This is a recognised method used for casting off but many of our readers might not know about it . |
| 27 | More recently studies have attempted to refine their research methodologies so that reviews of this research are much clearer about what we can claim to know and not know about abuse and in particular that it is a much more complex problem than was first thought . |
| 28 | In fact , there is no further mention of the chapel in the Minute Books of their Meetings for nearly three centuries , and much later they were to claim that they did not know about it until it was brought to their attention for the first time in 1846 . |
| 29 | But there is — for all our reflection — so much we do not know about even the simplest town scene . |
| 30 | I imagined he had been up to something I would rather not know about . |