Example sentences of "not know [pron] it be " in BNC.

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1 You ca n't imagine what it 's like not to know what it is to meet an attractive person who 's also attracted to you , can you ?
2 So I was determined to show them I could take a joke and the next time a big stork went over I pretended not to know what it was called and asked my girl .
3 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 .
4 ‘ The implication is that the profession does not know what it 's about . ’
5 BS is supposed to have complete scientific knowledge of V and his physical environment when V sees : yet BS does not know what it is like for V to see , what colours look like , etcetera .
6 I do not know what it is , nor do I greatly care .
7 An activity is decided upon by your PP , but you do not know what it is .
8 Aragorn , then , has some hope of the future and of something outside the ‘ circles of the world ’ that may come to heal their sorrow , but he does not know what it is .
9 You do not know what it is .
10 ‘ But I do not know what it is , or even what is there !
11 Even if he 's your husband he can not go through the pain you went through and so can not know what it is like .
12 If there was something lacking in his life , he did not know what it was .
13 In particular , we would not know what it was about consciousness that gave rise to its falling under the given kinds of statement .
14 But I do not know what it was . ’
15 Something had disturbed him , but he did not know what it was .
16 In any case she did not know what it was to be and took refuge in the business of drawing the cups and the teapot towards her .
17 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 .
18 ‘ But , ’ she might have added , ‘ we do not know who it is who helps Raynor , for he does not come to us . ’
19 ‘ I honestly believe he did not know who it was because he did not do it .
20 In Liverpool , a dockers ' spokesman with the Transport and General Workers Union admitted : ‘ Drivers are n't happy handling some of these commodities , but at least a lorry-driver has more idea of what he is handling than a docker , who could have a consignment and just not know what it is . ’
21 It 's about being young and terribly embarrassed and wanting to make an impression but not knowing what it is .
22 erm Has anybody received a beep in the ear-piece , not knowing what it is ?
23 Nell lowered the file , suddenly frightened , and still not knowing what it was that had disturbed her .
24 Spectators and bystanders on the canal bank turned and stared , not knowing what it was that had flashed past them , hurtling towards the water .
25 She frowned , not knowing what it was she was looking for , then turned back , looking at him .
26 He felt it , not knowing what it was , like a feeling in a dream .
27 ‘ Ah , but I should have acted six years ago , I should have taken you then when you were vulnerable in your confusion — as I supposed — involved with a recently married man , presumably for the first time , and not knowing what it was you felt for me because you were so sure Jones was all you wanted .
28 picks up the phone not knowing who it is and says Santa 's Grotto it is funny is n't it ?
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