Example sentences of "a clue [pron] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can she , when she does n't have a clue what we 're dealing with here ? |
| 2 | And you ca n't develop a prototype system because the users have n't got a clue what they want . |
| 3 | At this point the two girls just marched off the train , one of them picked up David , the other one picked me up , screamed Russian things at the soldiers — I have n't a clue what they were saying — and marched us back on the train and barred the door , while the Russian soldiers were standing on the platform screaming horrible things at them . |
| 4 | Diver or something , honest-to-god I do n't have a clue what they actually do up there , do n't ask me — anyway , seems This Chap had Two Boys , one teenage , the other growing out of anoraks faster than look-at-you so She put pressure on him . |
| 5 | ‘ Ah but we did n't know what we were doing then ’ , is no doubt the department 's answer , an answer echoed by local farmer , Jack Maher , though the ignorance of local farmers seems understandable , while that of the department seems culpable : ‘ We had n't a clue what they were going to do . |
| 6 | Only a month ago we were told by the Engineering Council that technology lessons under the national curriculum were a ‘ farce ’ — and teachers did n't have a clue what they should be doing in the classroom . |
| 7 | Well we had er , we took out all the gear for that , so I knew a lot , being a crane driver I 'd know what gear I wanted but a lot of these stevedores what are on there now , they were lorry drivers and they ai n't got a clue what they do , so there part of my job meant I 'd go round and give advice . |
| 8 | They weave from side to side and usually havenm't a clue what they 're doing |
| 9 | I have n't got a clue what they are , look ! |
| 10 | there 's various things you can talk to them about , and all you do is , all you 're looking for is some key words to motivate them , right eh er to a certain extent you want , you want to assume from the start that they do n't have a clue what they 're doing |
| 11 | Erm yeah if you try and transcribe stuff , as I discovered doing my P HD you know , I did n't realise how much gibberish was talked and often things the meaning 's clear in the conversation but if you listen to the words or l w read the words later y'know you have n't a clue what they 're on about and yet you 're fairly sure |
| 12 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 13 | And he went to them , and he found that they had n't a clue what they 'd written , and he concluded , quite soberly , that they must have been visited by a Muse . |
| 14 | I have n't a clue what her name was ! |
| 15 | I looked at him puzzled and said I did n't have a clue what he was talking about . |
| 16 | He 'd ask you what club it was without giving you a clue what he was thinking . |
| 17 | ( At the time I had not a clue what he was talking about but , in hindsight , he was , of course , referring to Boleyn 's ascendancy over Fat Henry and Wolsey falling like a star from the sky of royal preferment . ) |
| 18 | He says he did n't have a clue what he wanted to do when he left school . |
| 19 | He 'd sounded as though he was being sarcastic , or ironic , but again she had n't a clue what he meant . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't , ’ she told him , a shade edgily it was true , but then , for all he understood , and spoke her language , she still did n't have a clue what he was talking about . |
| 21 | No I ai n't got a clue what he said then |
| 22 | He has n't got a clue what he wants . |
| 23 | not got a clue what he 's done |
| 24 | He has n't got a clue what he 's lost ! |
| 25 | Even blindingly obvious and crucial insights do n't usually come instantly — it took us 24 hours to realise that the part-concealed agenda behind IBM 's December closures was that the company was signalling the death of the mainframe , a couple of months to realise that the executive search committee of IBM non-executive directors had n't a clue what it should be looking for in a new chief executive for IBM — because they themselves did n't have the computer industry background they needed to recognise how vital such a background would be to the person assuming the post . |
| 26 | I mean he had n't a clue what it , what was written in it . |
| 27 | I ai n't , I have n't got a clue what it , you know that 's a good thing Joyce . |
| 28 | you know you just still bewildered because you do n't understand , I mean like I go to this night class and apparently I , I learn from it , but in actual fact I do n't , I come out I get eight out of ten , nine out of ten , or ten out of ten and I have n't got a clue what it 's about |
| 29 | There is no point in complaining ; they may try to mollify you in their irritatingly good English , but they will not have a clue what you are so anxious about . |
| 30 | No , I do n't think most of parents would have a clue what you 're talking about ! |