Example sentences of "know nothing of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sequence of six lines with the same rhyme are given to Dame Sirith as , initially , she professes her conventional goodness and innocence to Wilekin : ( " I am a holy woman ; I know nothing of witchcraft but with almsgiving to good men I sustain my life each day , and offer my paternoster and my creed that God should help those in their need who help me my life to lead and should grant that all should go well with them … ) |
| 2 | If he has a regret , it is that the majority of young footballers today know nothing of life outside football . |
| 3 | A statement at the funeral yesterday read : ‘ We know nothing of Ian 's business dealings . |
| 4 | You know nothing of Herr Goering , only what you are fed by propaganda . |
| 5 | You know nothing of women if that is what you believe , my dear . |
| 6 | ‘ I know nothing of ships , ’ he said , ‘ but it seems to me that the vessel that will carry a company of men , and their st'lyan , will be large indeed . ’ |
| 7 | To know God and yet nothing of our own wretched state breeds pride ; to realize our misery and know nothing of God is mere despair ; but if we come to the knowledge of Jesus Christ we find our true equilibrium , for there we find both human misery and God . |
| 8 | For a period of two years from the summer of 1179 to the summer of 1181 we know nothing of Richard 's movements . |
| 9 | I know nothing of orchestration , but I have two ears ( which is two more than the professional critics seem to have ) … |
| 10 | ‘ We know nothing of Australia as yet except that it is the land of convicts and kangaroos , & this after 50 years of possession ! |
| 11 | Warriors now know nothing of war and cattle raiding . |
| 12 | You know nothing of war , it has never touched you . |
| 13 | He was standing here on the other side of the door , knowing nothing of Isabel 's plans . |
| 14 | But critics of the twenties , knowing nothing of Pound 's part in the poem , and ignorant also of Eliot 's private sufferings through his wretched first marriage , saw no need to go so far around , to support their conviction or assumption that The Waste Land was a poem with a message . |
| 15 | I knew nothing of Quigley 's sexual life , but it was entirely possible that Marjorie and Emily were not enough for him . |
| 16 | Josie knew nothing of Christine 's death . |
| 17 | His family knew nothing of education and so gave him no support or encouragement , still less active aid . |
| 18 | But to others who knew nothing of cricket he sounded like home . |
| 19 | Yet the tone of her telephone call to Swans ' Meadow had implied she knew nothing of Samantha 's abduction — or of what her kidnappers had demanded in return for her release . |
| 20 | Recruited from the lower-middle or working class , the representative benefactor lived in a small house in a town or city , had no children or had children who were grown up , spoke not a word of German , knew nothing of Germany beyond the front-page news of the Express or Mirror , and did not begin to understand the trauma of being a young refugee . |
| 21 | They knew nothing of Judaism , did not feel Jewish , and yet had enough Jewish blood in them to make them somehow different from their former friends , if not quite enough for them to be welcomed unreservedly into the Jewish community . |
| 22 | She spoke of feelings but she knew nothing of sympathy or pity . |
| 23 | But the caribou knew nothing of man 's activities and following the ancient trail they found their way barred . |
| 24 | Stamford police knew nothing of Alexander James McCloy . |
| 25 | We knew nothing of Auschwitz , Belsen or Dachau until their purpose had been served . |
| 26 | It was immediately clear that the CRA knew nothing of Derry . |
| 27 | Thiercelin , who knew nothing of theatres , walked uneasily up to the door and knocked . |
| 28 | Charles , under his tarpaulin , knew nothing of direction or topography , but he did see his servant again before the nightmare ride was over . |
| 29 | ( I knew nothing of London . |
| 30 | From the other end of the telephone , on another continent , in another world where people slept soundly in their beds and knew nothing of battle , the familiar voice that had ordered me into so many hells was sending me back , this time to the lowest rung . |