Example sentences of "[not/n't] know [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not know which of the library 's facilities and services should be offered to these different categories of user , and we would like the Committee 's guidance in codifying procedures . |
| 2 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 3 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
| 4 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 5 | Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth . |
| 6 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
| 7 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
| 8 | The trustees claim they did not know anything about the clause , are a voluntary body on low income and would be unable to pay a market rent and become responsible for maintenance . |
| 9 | We do not know anything about the nature of her illness . |
| 10 | Mr. Lloyd , counsel for the defendant , has attacked this part of the judgment by relying heavily on the proposition that Mrs. Steed did not know anything about the power of attorney and her status thereunder . |
| 11 | Science can not know anything of the kind of necessities with which causes compel effects and does not need to suppose that there are any . |
| 12 | When he was asked on 3 June to protect the Catholics in Moorfields , he is said to have replied : ‘ You do not know anything of the business . |
| 13 | You 've got to have all that side of it , and if you 're in teaching it 's a bit ridiculous to be in any job if you do n't know something about the history of it . |
| 14 | I do n't know one from the other by name . |
| 15 | Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked . |
| 16 | ‘ They wo n't know us at the station , in London , ’ said Jonathon suddenly . |
| 17 | Les Conn : The problem was John ( Bloom ) did n't know anybody in the music business except myself because I was quite well-known at that time in Tin Pan Alley . |
| 18 | I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |
| 19 | Though I did n't know it at the time , Lebanon was suffering only the hors d'oeuvre of the devil 's dinner . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , I did n't know it at the time , but the telegraphist on the next set to mine-Lofty , he 's called — was on my wavelength too . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't know it at the time . |
| 22 | I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 23 | Of course I did n't know it at the time , but by then my mother and father 's marriage was showing cracks . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know anything of the sort . ’ |
| 25 | I did n't know anything about the way some birds use warm air currents to help their flight . |
| 26 | erm I do n't know anything about the publicity people , but I thought that had been decided at the , is that right ? |
| 27 | ‘ He did n't know anything about the guitar . |
| 28 | Well , cos David really does n't know anything about the air braking or anything like that . |
| 29 | I do n't know anything about the history of Nice because … ’ |
| 30 | So er obviously I did n't know anything about the money owed or we would 've endeavoured to pay it off straight away when we went to the bank er originally when it went when it folded . |