Example sentences of "they knew nothing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They knew nothing at the bookshop , sir ; his sister , Sara , seemed very upset ; she would n't believe that he was n't at home . |
| 2 | They knew nothing of Judaism , did not feel Jewish , and yet had enough Jewish blood in them to make them somehow different from their former friends , if not quite enough for them to be welcomed unreservedly into the Jewish community . |
| 3 | He may have shown indifference with his remark that Christians need not be ashamed if they knew nothing of the number and properties of the elements . |
| 4 | getting compurgators to swear that they believed him to be oathworthy , although they knew nothing of the facts of the case . |
| 5 | At the post office next morning they knew nothing of the names of Clare or Durbeyfield . |
| 6 | It is true that on their horses and with their arms they looked well at a review ; but they knew nothing of war . ’ |
| 7 | The original Know Nothing party arose in the 1860s ( its name refers to the fact that it was a secret party and its members , if interrogated , said they knew nothing about it ) . |
| 8 | They knew nothing about the drive-away alternative , neither did we but it was n't hard to find out . |
| 9 | They knew nothing about him , really , although she knew that her husband was impressed by him . |
| 10 | They did n't get the information they needed , so they knew nothing about things like alternative positions during labour . ’ |
| 11 | Sometimes the Ashleys mixed their French and English friends with amusing results , such as the occasion when they invited Terence Conran and his wife Caroline , the cookery writer , who were inveighed against by their French dinner companions , claiming it was an audacity for the English to write about food as they knew nothing about it . |
| 12 | Said alright , so I filled out a bloody form and I went to Michelins , they knew nothing about it and they had n't got it displayed either ! |