Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] know [pron] it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I was determined to show them I could take a joke and the next time a big stork went over I pretended not to know what it was called and asked my girl . |
| 2 | Impossible to judge whether she knew or did not know whatever it was that Francis had been told , and there was nothing to be gained by turning the screw too hard . |
| 3 | If there was something lacking in his life , he did not know what it was . |
| 4 | Something had disturbed him , but he did not know what it was . |
| 5 | In any case she did not know what it was to be and took refuge in the business of drawing the cups and the teapot towards her . |
| 6 | He stood quivering to the gradations of light that sang in the roof , and did not know what it was that moved him so , the hour , or the true beauty of the proportions and spaces about him , or the marvellous and frightening sense of having drawn so close to the spring of his own being . |
| 7 | ‘ I honestly believe he did not know who it was because he did not do it . |
| 8 | I did n't know what it was , and they had to play in-between bingo sets . |
| 9 | I think that everyone probably goes through fights with their parents during their early teens but I certainly did n't know what it was like to run away from home and to have constant dealings with the police and welfare organisations . |
| 10 | Miranda did n't know what it was . |
| 11 | They looked me over , said that they did n't know what it was and sent me home . |
| 12 | I did n't know what it was all about till I got there and one of them said ‘ You may recognise this , ’ and it was all in the style of Camberwick Green . |
| 13 | They did n't know what it was like , these people . |
| 14 | She knew we 'd got a clue , even if she did n't know what it was . |
| 15 | I actually bought the guitar off the shelf but I did n't know what it was . |
| 16 | Early Muddy Waters stuff : his stuff was the first slide that I heard and I did n't know what it was ; I did n't know if someone was playing steel guitar ; it sounded like they were fretting the guitar and slidin' . |
| 17 | He did n't know what it was , but now it was n't small talk and he was n't just ticking over any more . |
| 18 | But he did n't know what it was , that was the trouble . |
| 19 | He held the gun as if he did n't know what it was , and looked at her . |
| 20 | How she had wanted him to kiss her , she did n't know what it was like to be kissed and Craig Grenfell was such a handsome man . |
| 21 | Half the other people on the interviewing committee did n't know what it was . |
| 22 | I had a vague feeling there was probably a simple way of lifting an old woman off the floor , bit I did n't know what it was . |
| 23 | The first time I was strung out I did n't know what it was . |
| 24 | William did n't know what it was — flood or earthquake , drought or famine , or a combination of all four — but they moved , and they took the fleas and the bacilli with them , and somewhere in their travels they encountered the black rat rattus rattus , and the drama began to move along a bit , because rattus rattus was a vagabond and a great little mover . |
| 25 | I did n't know what it was and I certainly had n't asked for it . |
| 26 | My solicitor got some papers for me to sign , but I was so depressed I did n't know what it was about . |
| 27 | She had no idea what love was like and , if she did n't know what it was like , how could she know if she wanted it ? |
| 28 | The jeweller did n't know what it was my father showed him . |
| 29 | I told them they did n't know what it was like . |
| 30 | Piers cleaned out his ear with his little finger and then leant on his elbow with his forehead on outstretched fingers — and shook his head every time the instrument ( I did n't know what it was then ) vibrated . |