Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] know [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er we both met him to try and make a plea to him to try and change his views and it 's fair to say that he does n't know or did n't know what was going on in his own backyard and John Patten I feel is the same as is the rest of the M P's in the Oxfordshire area . |
| 2 | Impossible to judge whether she knew or did not know whatever it was that Francis had been told , and there was nothing to be gained by turning the screw too hard . |
| 3 | Me that did n't know what to do I was n't gon na participate . |
| 4 | Is it possible to arrange that they be given blanks and do n't know which are the blanks and which are the real , because otherwise there 's a risk after you 've done this the schools will suspect that they 're low , and therefore they will add a little on to their blank or something like that . |
| 5 | ‘ Doctors , who have never been taught medical entomology and do n't know what a mite is , would be far happier if asthma were caused by cigarette smoke , pollution , plant pollen or cat fur , but few cases actually are . |
| 6 | They have lost something and do n't know what they have lost . |
| 7 | ‘ Do you think , ’ said Bishop Jon , ‘ that your husband and his forefathers have never seen storms before and do n't know what standing orders to give ? |
| 8 | And so we stare at the pit in the earth and think we both do and do n't know what sculpture is ’ . |
| 9 | and tennis coaching and do n't know what else he did do . |
| 10 | wear out and me throw it away than it still be good and do n't know what to do with it , you know , you 're thinking |
| 11 | The Elves , who will never leave the material universe and do not know what happens to Men when they die , are embodiments of language-users for whom the breath-wind-spirit distinction would be meaningless . |
| 12 | We are equally ready to project this highly idealized picture of ourselves onto our own past and do not know what to make of the weird mystical ‘ fantasies ’ in which our ancestors seem to have indulged . |
| 13 | As a result their supervisors feel threatened and do not know what new skills to supervise them on . |
| 14 | In the " fishing question " we hang out the bait and do not know what sort of answer we will get ( for example : " What media approach could we use here ? " ) |
| 15 | Marcus still stood looking down , almost as if he were now puzzled and did not know what to do next . |
| 16 | Dorothy was puzzled and did not know what to say , so she smiled and then started up the path to the back door , when he called her back . |
| 17 | He was bewildered and did not know what to do . |
| 18 | He could not interpret the hand gestures and did not know what the offworlder was thinking . |
| 19 | The Gnome , whose name was Pumlumon said , ‘ But of course we have , ’ and the Gnomes all shook their heads sadly , and did not know what things were coming to when Humans did not remember about Gnomes having any magic . |
| 20 | It was a day lying hidden among all the other days of the year , so that she noticed nothing when it came round , and did not know what week , month , season or year it would be . |
| 21 | He stood quivering to the gradations of light that sang in the roof , and did not know what it was that moved him so , the hour , or the true beauty of the proportions and spaces about him , or the marvellous and frightening sense of having drawn so close to the spring of his own being . |
| 22 | But he had already said something similar to Burun , and did not know which of his words had been repeated verbatim . |
| 23 | I was nearly in tears and did n't know what to do with it . |
| 24 | ‘ I became really sick here for the first time and did n't know what was going on , ’ he recalls . |
| 25 | I was n't coming to terms with it and did n't know what to do . |
| 26 | I have known gardens where the roses never had a moment 's fungicidal attention and did n't know what mildew was , and there have been others where the roses received every care and attention , and each year the place looked like a flour mill . |
| 27 | Was the vicious rumour that he had turned up late after a liquid lunch and did n't know what he was voting for true ? |
| 28 | Ask a dozen American curators about Earl A. Powell III , the new Director of the National Gallery , Washington , and you get more or less the same general response : ‘ If you were having lunch with Rusty ( his nickname that everyone uses ) and did n't know what he did for a living , you would think he was either an Assistant Secretary of the Navy , a General Manager of General Motors , or a football coach . |
| 29 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 30 | A lot of them were slow , and did n't know what they were doing half the time : they 'd give you the wrong medicine . |