Example sentences of "do [not/n't] know [adv] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Stephanie did not know how far this revulsion might perhaps include Marcus himself . |
| 4 | She said there had but she did not know how close to where she was picked up . |
| 5 | He did not know how long he lay there but was woken by the sound of turning pages . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They had lost all sense of time and did not know how long their night had lasted , whether dawn was near or far . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But he did not know how long he would have to wait to do so . |
| 11 | When the Shah arrived , Morocco officials evidently did not know how long he planned to stay . |
| 12 | They had been there … they did not know how long . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | His father had been too upset to talk to Darren about it and he had been sent to stay with an aunt that he did not know very well . |
| 18 | She went into the corridor , hurrying as though she did not know very well that she was simply being transferred to another waiting chair , that the urgency of their voices bore no relation to the speed of their , or anyway her , movements . |
| 19 | The appearance is such that if the viewer did not know better then he would say , ‘ AB is shorter than BC ’ . |
| 20 | We do not know even today whether or not this is the case , but Pons certainly felt very strongly that it should be lithium deuteroxide , LiOD . |
| 21 | This subject added : " Occasionally I hear the first movement of his Third Concerto , which I do not know well enough to construct in my mind when I am fully conscious . " |
| 22 | I do not know how easy it will be to find Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow outside Japan . |
| 23 | I remember once the late professor G S Stuart reminding us that , in relation to the death of Jesus on the cross , we do not know how deep were the waters crossed , or how dark was the night that the lord passed through ere he found the sheep that was lost . |
| 24 | ‘ You do n't think , ’ Alida always said , ‘ you do not know how much we spend , simply to keep alive , you have no idea how much things cost . |
| 25 | Wives often do not know how much their husbands earn . |
| 26 | We do not know how much this was due to poor manufacturing standards or poor pilots , but in any event the authorities dispensed with Tank 's services and he went off to Egypt and then India , where he designed the Hal-Marut , a plane suitable for twice the speed of sound but with engines capable only of less than half that speed . |
| 27 | Many firms do not know how much it costs to relocate staff . |
| 28 | How can the council tax be easy to collect if the people who are responsible for collecting it simply do not know how much they must collect from each household ? |
| 29 | For though it stands so isolated today from human kind , St Mary 's church was a mother-church for a wide area round about , as befitted the spiritual centre of a royal estate ; and we do not know how far back a building stood on this site . |
| 30 | We do not know how far these findings are generalisable at a national level , but we are reasonably confident that the study practices were representative of the totality of fundholding practices in the Oxford region and that the fundholding and control practices were fairly well matched on those variables , such as distance from provider units , which might have affected referral patterns . |