Example sentences of "knew [adv] nothing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He knew virtually nothing about European federalism , but here was Mrs Thatcher warning us that political union was on the cards . |
| 2 | You knew virtually nothing about me , about the way I operated . ’ |
| 3 | It was a shock realizing she knew almost nothing of Midnight ; all the worse because she 'd let herself begin to depend on him . |
| 4 | Given these long-standing traditions , it seems amazing that , as recently as a decade ago , the scientific world knew almost nothing of these forest chimpanzees . |
| 5 | Quite simply , until the 1980s , the scientific community knew almost nothing of the way of living of these chimpanzees . |
| 6 | I knew almost nothing about physics but we shared some jokes about the Rome telephone system . |
| 7 | The circumstances being what they were , Richard must have known I did not , but since he knew almost nothing about me except that I was willing , he could hardly have been expected to care . |
| 8 | I realized I knew almost nothing about his background . |
| 9 | She knew almost nothing about him . |
| 10 | There could be as many more — dozens more — about whom she knew absolutely nothing at all . |
| 11 | They were quite good days because I knew absolutely nothing about the music business , being at school , and he was my first boy friend who was n't upper class . |
| 12 | It was a six-letter word and I knew absolutely nothing about it . |
| 13 | I knew absolutely nothing about the Alexander Technique and viewed it with a certain amount of scepticism , but I felt I had nothing to lose . |
| 14 | ‘ I knew absolutely nothing about this . |
| 15 | The fact that he knew absolutely nothing about the airline business was neither here nor there . |
| 16 | Marenches thought that Carter knew absolutely nothing about the Middle East . |