Example sentences of "[not/n't] know what it be [pron] " in BNC.

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1 She frowned , not knowing what it was she was looking for , then turned back , looking at him .
2 ‘ 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 .
3 We still do n't know what it is we are up against , do we ? ’
4 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 .
5 I still did n't know what it was he was trying to tell me
6 The jeweller did n't know what it was my father showed him .
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