Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] what it [be] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 It makes me feel insecure — not understanding what it is they want so much .
2 She frowned , not knowing what it was she was looking for , then turned back , looking at him .
3 ‘ Ah , but I should have acted six years ago , I should have taken you then when you were vulnerable in your confusion — as I supposed — involved with a recently married man , presumably for the first time , and not knowing what it was you felt for me because you were so sure Jones was all you wanted .
4 To this day I can not recall what it was I said to him .
5 We still do n't know what it is we are up against , do we ? ’
6 And she resisted finding out , in the way that other girls she had known kept themselves in deliberate ignorance of such things as impregnation , in the unarticulated hope that if they did n't know what it was it could n't happen to them .
7 I still did n't know what it was he was trying to tell me
8 Cos it 's not a Polo , it 's a Jetta , it 's the one with the boot but if you ca n't remember what it is you can either , did you know the difference between a car with a boot and a car with a hatchback ?
9 The carbonate I ca n't remember what it is I 'm getting confused I
10 So the other one is I do n't remember what it is I wanted but I think I 'll go in to erm and erm
11 I do n't understand what it is you want , or what you have to do with Spiderglass , or even how you got me away from them .
12 And they started that and they were sent out to this big villa and er that was the first time I had seen a continental headboard and er we could n't understand what it was you know .
13 I ai n't bothered what it is I do n't think .
14 The track felt soft and slithery but in the dark she could n't see what it was she was stepping on .
15 But the gabble was such that the child could n't distinguish what it was they wanted , until the old woman cried , ‘ No candy rock today ! 'T IS all gone , all gone , ’ at which , one after the other , the children , as if at a signal , stopped gabbling and took up the chant : ‘ Raggie Aggie !
16 I ca n't imagine what it is you want . ’
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