Example sentences of "[not/n't] know where [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In support of this contention he quotes research done by Thorpe , who found in a study of long-term foster-children that only 27 per cent had contact with their parents every six months or more frequently and that over 60 per cent of natural parents did not know where their children were living , with only 21 per cent feeling encouraged by their social worker to maintain contact . |
| 2 | In reply to yet another question from the impromptu baby-sitter , he said that he did not know where his wife was , but he did believe that poor Maria had left him . |
| 3 | With the minimum of props and the only gesture being a raised paw , he asked for the money for a cup of coffee , guv , sported a patch over one eye concealing a wound sustained in the service of his country , at the same time dragging a wooden leg fitted during the retreat from Moscow while maintaining that he had a bitch and five pups to support and did not know where his next meal was coming from . |
| 4 | ‘ I do not know where my wife is , I only wish I did , ’ Carter was replying to the constable 's question . |
| 5 | If you do not know where your subject is located , use the index volumes 41–42 to the 3rd edition and the index to such of the volumes of the 4th edition as have been published . |
| 6 | When I first moved here I would wander around for days , not knowing where my home was . |
| 7 | I , I used to drive Sheena , but I can safely say that I live on the A seventy seven , aggression is equally as bad as drinking driving , because you see it happening on that road every day , aggression they cut out they cut in , you do n't know where their coming from , er at least a drunken driver tries to go straight and make 's the mistake |
| 8 | And those who do n't know where their luck comes from : |
| 9 | In fact , they should n't let them , cos they do n't know where their dogs are gon na go do they ? |
| 10 | as if a mother did n't know where her own daughter was ! |
| 11 | I do n't know where her dad was , but she lives lives with her mum . |
| 12 | Staring back at Feargal , she began hesitantly , ‘ I truly did n't know where your mother lived , except that it was Slane . |
| 13 | I do n't know where your plectrum is , I expect it 's on the floor somewhere waiting for my hoover to get it ! |
| 14 | Well I do n't know , I do n't know where your putty knife is . |
| 15 | You do n't know where your own sister lives ? |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't know where my husband had got to , that 's all . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't know where my next penny is coming from , I really do n't , ’ she would breathe in her flat , light voice , as she sat hunched on the river bank , too hapless for despair , while our children played together among the drifting garbage at the water 's edge . |
| 18 | I do n't know where my . |
| 19 | He did n't know where his father got it from , but there was plenty of it . |
| 20 | Occasionally I 'd get up in the morning and there he 'd be in the kitchen , eating furiously , as if he did n't know where his next grub was coming from , as if each day was an adventure that could end anywhere . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , Dr Rydell ca n't yet test this idea as he does n't know where his bats roost in the spring and autumn , but his case is supported by the behaviour of another insectivorous bat , the parti-coloured bat , in Denmark . |
| 22 | ‘ I really do n't know where His Highness is . |
| 23 | It could be said that his attitude is as a result of his poverty but in chapter three we meet a young boy called Chuck Little who ‘ did n't know where his next meal was coming from ’ but who was also ‘ a perfect gentleman ’ and when he is contrasted to Bob Ewell 's son Burris we see that they are both in similar circumstances . |
| 24 | Oh no I do n't know where father I do n't know where his father was no . |
| 25 | I do n't know where his purple |