Example sentences of "[verb] [not/n't] know [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could do n't know she could |
| 2 | But you see I , I do n't know I can see what you mean , but I do n't know whether a move would be the answer cos I think you 're if you 're gon na stay in teaching this is what 's gon na happen . |
| 3 | Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting . |
| 4 | What they did not know they could imagine . |
| 5 | They did not know when accident or sickness would hit them , and though they knew that some time in middle age — perhaps in the forties for unskilled labourers , perhaps in the fifties for the more skilled — they would become incapable of doing a full measure of adult physical labour , they did not know what would happen to them between then and death . |
| 6 | An expert owes no duty in tort if there has been no reference of an issue to him and he did not know who would be affected by his certificate . |
| 7 | Leave you I would , if I did not know you 'd fret your heart out worse than I 'll let you fret your body in the field . |
| 8 | Otherwise I would have been sent back to my country and I do not know what would have happened to us . ’ |
| 9 | If Uncle had n't been there to support me I do not know what would have become of me . |
| 10 | The owners say that they are so new to the game that for the moment they are selling everything because they do not know what will eventually prove profitable . |
| 11 | In 1951 , he could still write to an author who wanted to publish some works in his collection : ‘ I have not given you my permission because I do not know what will be in the book you are writing . |
| 12 | I do not know what will happen now . |
| 13 | If we are to move to an era of low or nil inflation and to the European way of doing things , whereby house prices will not increase , I do not know what will happen to the economy of the south of England or to unemployment . |
| 14 | I do not know what will happen about Monktonhall . |
| 15 | Nor can teachers any longer be allowed to say that they do not know what will be required of their pupils three , six or eight years later . |
| 16 | If you lose your keys , or if someone steals your keys , or if you move into a new home and you do not know who may have spare keys change all the locks immediately . |
| 17 | Again , you do not know who may be listening . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , I did n't know one could do that in libraries . ’ |
| 19 | Anyone who did n't know them might have taken them for a couple of businessmen out for a Sunday afternoon stroll . |
| 20 | The difference is that we did n't know then what we know now , we did n't know what would become of us ’ ; or ‘ We were so young and spilling over with everything inside ’ . |
| 21 | She did n't know what would happen , she did n't know what was happening now . |
| 22 | She added that she did n't know what would become of the family now that her brother was no longer around to take care of them . |
| 23 | Anyone who did n't know him would turn up their nose , looking down on him , but Clary would only laugh as if he enjoyed it . |
| 24 | ‘ We did n't know they 'd run away before you 'd finished with them , ’ one of the soldiers was grumbling sullenly . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't know we would be in Spain for so long . ’ |
| 26 | And we did n't know we could see her and we were looking out the window going and he was there looking , put his sunglasses on to see . |
| 27 | I did n't know she would be so attractive . |
| 28 | ‘ I did n't know she 'd fall off like that ! ’ |
| 29 | Christ , he did n't know he 'd never get another chance . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ And I did n't know he 'd come to the hotel to find you ! |