Example sentences of "do not know [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not interpret the hand gestures and did not know what the offworlder was thinking . |
| 2 | It 's no excuse that the salesman did not know what the customer planned to do with the recorder , even if it is labelled with a warning about not taping copyright records or films . |
| 3 | The captain did not know what the craft was carrying , though that was not unusual , and the line was under contract partly for its discretion . |
| 4 | She did not know what the message was : Lee in this state was no longer a lovelorn friend but a trauma . |
| 5 | The institutions did not know what the criteria or standards were , and the process of validation normally meant two or three visits to the institution — with the first visit being a learning process for the institution , to hear what the process was all about . |
| 6 | Out popped a very strange gentleman from this aircraft that I noticed had American markings , but I still did not know what the aircraft was , I had a vague idea but I was not sure . |
| 7 | At first Dinah did not understand ; the way he talked was strange to her , and in any case she did not know what the term meant . |
| 8 | We did not know what the future might hold and had to face the possibility that we may not see each other again . |
| 9 | In the 1980S , as the communications industries multiplied and expanded , and the number of policy-actors and centres of decision ( local and regional as well as national ( proliferated , it often appeared that the right hand did not know what the left was doing . |
| 10 | She did not know what the matter was but knew instinctively that this was the right thing to do . |
| 11 | Though he did not know it the San Antonio had turned tail and was even now on her way back to Spain , ‘ bearing a cargo of falsehood against Magellan ’ . |
| 12 | We do not know what the staying-on rate will be until the autumn , and it is capable of further revision during the year . |
| 13 | I do not know what the Secretary of State is doing now to an article . |
| 14 | This has not yet been discovered and we do not know what the machines are for — rather as nineteenth-century people did not know about plutonium and nuclear reactors — so we do not know what such developments will lead to in terms of aesthetic and economic considerations , and eventually the effects on the landscape and the settlements in it . |
| 15 | We do not know what the consultants originally said when they first produced a draft for the promoter , and what they were then asked to add afterwards to make it a little more toothsome for the promoters , to make it a safer version of the environmental impact assessment . |
| 16 | I do not know what the Anglo-Saxons called a rabbit , a candidate for description , I should have thought . |
| 17 | I do not know what the majority here or in the country may think about it . |
| 18 | I do not know what the hilarity is about , but please carry on . |
| 19 | We still do not know what the Government 's aims and objectives at Maastricht are . |
| 20 | The other reason is that there are at least some rules for judging advertisements , but most of these are based firmly in the objectives which the ads are trying to achieve : if we do not know what the objectives are , any judgement we may make is without a real foundation . |
| 21 | I do not know what the people back in Rushcliffe think about him when he messes about in this way . |
| 22 | I have a car badge belonging to the 159 Motor Club but do not know what the club is , or was , and have been unable to find out . |
| 23 | Hankin , as well as the players , press and supporters , do not know what the future holds . |
| 24 | Scott replied : ‘ I do not know what the future may hold , but authorities have no power to provide cash now ’ . |
| 25 | Most new mothers do not know what the Guthrie test is for : a considerable number incorrectly believe that it will detect more disorders than is the case . |
| 26 | ( g ) We do not know what the mother said to Miss T. , because she has not chosen to tell the court , but it appears to be the fact that on the two occasions when Miss T. raised the issue of blood transfusions , she did so suddenly and ‘ out of the blue ’ without any inquiry from hospital staff and immediately following occasions when she had been alone with her mother . |
| 27 | ‘ I do not know what the outcome will be as there are an awful lot of issues which are unclear . |
| 28 | I do not know what the answer is , but I know what the answer is not . |
| 29 | I do not know what the sensuality of a man is . |
| 30 | ‘ Which means , ’ I concluded wearily , ‘ that we do not know who the murderer really is , although we suspect Moodie . |