Example sentences of "do [not/n't] [verb] how [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she does n't I do n't know how much longer I can carry on . |
| 2 | I du n no how long we got to wait , but it 's pretty soon . |
| 3 | I du n no how long I sit there , but I reckon it 's quite a while . |
| 4 | I du n no how long I sit there , I just sit there and sort of watch the cars go by . |
| 5 | Du n no how long that 'll take for me . |
| 6 | Sailing along quite the thing and we were right down I du n no how far , if we were right in the middle of them or just on the edge of them , but we were not far from them . |
| 7 | I du n no how much it is — it 's probably about lOp . |
| 8 | When Boswell , hearing his praise of it , said , perhaps enquiringly , ‘ You never ate it before , ’ Johnson replied that he had hot but did not care how soon he ate it again . |
| 9 | Just at this moment d'Alembord did not care how late they would be . |
| 10 | Although Bush did not specify how much such assistance — which would be additional to the $203,000,000 already agreed — would amount to , some US officials suggested that it could measure more than $3,500 million over the next decade . |
| 11 | They offered the person , whose salary did not reflect how handsomely he would be paid in the future , a Professional Mortgage . |
| 12 | There was no ‘ correct ’ length of time which should elapse before she was ready to try , so it did not matter how long it took . |
| 13 | Mr Helmsley did not say how long he planned to keep his buildings in mourning , but his wife is expected to be in jail for at least 19 months before she is eligible for parole . |
| 14 | It was not the only time Poindexter had to shut North up : partly because North genuinely did not know how widely the secret was known , but partly because he could hardly resist it anyway . |
| 15 | Stephanie did not know how far this revulsion might perhaps include Marcus himself . |
| 16 | She said there had but she did not know how close to where she was picked up . |
| 17 | He did not know how long he lay there but was woken by the sound of turning pages . |
| 18 | He did not know how long he had been sleeping but woke up hungry and decided to sneak into the kitchens for a tin of soup . |
| 19 | They had lost all sense of time and did not know how long their night had lasted , whether dawn was near or far . |
| 20 | She did not know how long she would have to carry the child , or when it would be born ; she had no one to ask except Mrs Seager , who was still insistent that they go soon . |
| 21 | In fact , he was able to take the morning coach to Holborn and walk the brief distance to Clerkenwell , but the fare troubled him and he did not know how long he could afford to pay it . |
| 22 | But he did not know how long he would have to wait to do so . |
| 23 | When the Shah arrived , Morocco officials evidently did not know how long he planned to stay . |
| 24 | They had been there … they did not know how long . |
| 25 | They did not know how long their present work would last or , if they lost it , when they would get another job or under what conditions . |
| 26 | The pensioners complained on the eve of the first anniversary of the publisher 's death that they still did not know how long their pensions would be paid . |
| 27 | The priests had a mulberry tree , which last year had come near to ruining the woman 's trade , spattering the linen of the town with a roan signature , as the pulpy fruit fell from its higher branches , or was dropped by feasting birds or even wasps ; in fact , she did not know how so much staining happened , but it was the devil to scrub it out , and she risked wearing out the cloth itself with ammonia or other solvents . |
| 28 | Because one did not know how accurately the clock had been ticking during the processes of weighing , one could not know precisely the times at which the movements of the shutter occurred between which the radiation was released . |
| 29 | Most people do not realise how much they could increase their pleasure , success and income by reading faster and more accurately . |
| 30 | I do not remember how long we stayed at Jaipur but every day was packed with excitement . |