Example sentences of "[verb] not know what " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I meet my young son from school , laughing with his friends and waving to me and the dog , who wags its tail and barks in return , should I be supposed not to know what I am talking about if I pronounce them both to be conscious ? |
| 2 | We assume that this is because it has not known what role to play . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She pretended not to know what he was referring to but he would not be fooled . |
| 5 | As she ate Maltesers from the box on her knee , apparently engrossed in the antics of Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck or pluto her left hand seemed not to know what her right was doing . |
| 6 | Many seemed not to know what the knives and forks were for and took the napkins for handkerchiefs . |
| 7 | Daak had looked confused : he marched straight to Ace , but seemed not to know what to do next . |
| 8 | She hated not knowing what he was thinking , planning . |
| 9 | For many years these agencies operated free of any congressional oversight and , while many members of Congress clearly preferred not to know what they were doing , any attempts that were made to find out were firmly rebuffed . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't like not knowing what you 're doing . |
| 11 | That could only have happened if the Left did not know what was going on , and it could only have not known what was going on if it was being tricked by one of its own . |
| 12 | So the majority wore clerical collars and the ones who did not knew what they were doing . |
| 13 | I did not know what to do with it , why I was there . |
| 14 | Rather plainly the poem decides , as others have decided before and since , that the revolution 's humble heroes , revolution once accomplished , did not know what to do with the liberation they had achieved . |
| 15 | He said said the Government was keeping interest rates high because it did not know what else to do . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ We have very good arguments to prove that we can not be held responsible for the actions of a few people who did not know what they were doing . |
| 17 | Financial markets yesterday naively expected something , although they did not know what , from Nigel Lawson , the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 18 | Those who afterwards blamed Lambeth 1958 for platitudes did not know what they were talking about . |
| 19 | I did not know what ‘ cinema ’ was , it was one of those wonderful and unimaginable pleasures like La Semaine de Suzette and its doll Bleuette , which the war had taken away . |
| 20 | They simply did not know what was going on . |
| 21 | Yet , according to French sources , when François Mitterrand complained about the tone of Mr Bartholomew 's warnings at his recent meeting with President Bush on Martinique , the American president did not know what had been going on . |
| 22 | Jane , the supreme example of self-control , did not know what was happening to her ! |
| 23 | Dot did not know what Psalms were , but she felt she was beginning to understand about quiet and gentle greenness because she saw it all around her . |
| 24 | I did not know what to say in reply , so I took his hands and held them beside my own , showing first the backs , then the palms , then measuring them one against the other , palm to palm — something the Japanese would often do in comparing their smaller , lighter hands with my grosser ones . |
| 25 | I did not know what it could be , but I tried to reassure her and went up the road to where the policeman lived . |
| 26 | Yet in one the father did not know what was going on , and was robbed of all dignity . |
| 27 | In America a critic said confidently she did not know what life was all about . |
| 28 | Still , he did not know what he should do tonight . |
| 29 | Would you like to … ’ but he did not know what . |
| 30 | I shouted that he did not know what he was talking about and held the telephone away from my face . |