Example sentences of "n't know [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I do n't know about a spray , I do n't know although the fountain the fountain idea , does n't it . |
| 2 | I do n't know that the school 's is the right vehicle for this because in many ways , the children who are getting into these things pay more attention to the peer group , and it 's more important to have community groups , community cafes , things which are not seen as authority getting at them . |
| 3 | Kate did n't know that the Chief Constable knew all about her and Kelly . |
| 4 | To anyone who did n't know that the place had been given up , soldiers would look as natural there as seagulls . |
| 5 | We 'll keep an open mind about the caller 's sex until we get confirmation from Bidwell , but it was probably a woman , probably also someone who knew that old Mr. Lorrimer was expected to be in hospital yesterday , and who did n't know that the appointment had been cancelled . |
| 6 | ‘ People here do n't know that the policy review is already outdated . |
| 7 | Surely it is implausible to suppose , taking Russell 's example , that I do know what I did yesterday but I do n't know that the world did not begin five minutes ago replete with archaeological and other traces ( Russell , 1921 , p. 159 ) . |
| 8 | How it happened we do n't know but the flight-recorder said it only took a couple of minutes and the navigator confirmed this . |
| 9 | I do n't know but the artwork 's very good ai n't it ? |
| 10 | The best thing would be to s sort of say I do n't know but the sort of thing which came into my mind were questions like you know , Which accents do you think |
| 11 | I I simply do n't know but the paperwork I 've seen says that erm it is as likely in the next four or five years that major inward investors could be in the B one office type of employment as they happen to have been in the last couple of years in the manufacturing class . |
| 12 | A company spokesman said he did n't know whether the firm would break even on its third quarter just ended — results are due in a couple of weeks — but an improvement on its second quarter loss of $7.2m ( which followed a first quarter which ended $18m in the red ) is expected . |
| 13 | ‘ We do n't know whether the driver just lost control of the car . |
| 14 | But at the beginning of the war , when things were very doubtful , and we did n't know whether the army would commandeer all our buildings or what , and we started to make bench models of this er iron shearing machine . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't know whether the man I saw was a gardener , ’ said Peggy , shaking her head . |
| 16 | I do n't know whether the child was happy with Mrs Reed , but she stayed there ten years , until she went to Lowood school , where you were yourself . |
| 17 | Yeah but th there was a turn off and I did n't know whether the turn off was at Cardiff and we went past it . |
| 18 | wha what 's what would your opinion be as as a church-comer would you be as we do n't know whether the Archbishop really said it cos it 's printed in the Sun for heaven 's sake . |
| 19 | And I did n't know whether the letter was from Canon Wheeler or whether it had anything to do with his going to Medewich . |
| 20 | It meant she did n't know whether the foetus carried the disease until she was twenty-one weeks pregnant , by which time abortion is very difficult both physically and emotionally . |
| 21 | Erm , Mr , Mr Chairman I , I 'm not going to answer Mrs 's comments , although I do n't know whether the jibe about the was aimed my way . |
| 22 | Yes he 's built a business up and I 'm not denying him that er or anything at all , But somehow now er I do n't know whether the wheel is turning too fast for him to co keep up with it or whether it 's erm oh never mind the erm the industry of the locality , providing the money stakes a I know every business has got to pay for itself and that we we 're not , If this quarry was on the down grade and er er somebody had come to us said , look unless you take a drop in your wages er we ca n't survive that would be a different issue altogether . |
| 23 | Yeah I know , I do n't know whether she was going out or coming in but they got one there now and I think they th the one they got there now I do n't know whether the Corporation , that 's theirs or whether that 's put out to contract and I think that 's put out to contract now . |
| 24 | Oh some marvellous performances in it , but really it was Joan Littlewood 's intrinsic concept which was miraculous really , that 's and really I do n't know whether the movie lost a lot as against the play — I think it lost something — the important thing was that millions of people who would never have seen it , had it remained purely as a theatre production , did see what Joan Littlewood had to say , saw her perceptions , her wit , her humanity , and therefore I think it was well worth making . |
| 25 | The writer of this sentence does n't know whether the reader is male or female , but has chosen to use " his " as a GENERIC to mean " male or female " , overriding the normal use of " his " as a gender-specific pronoun meaning " male " . |
| 26 | So we do n't know whether the body was put into the compost at the same time as the head was put into the font or before it or after . ’ |
| 27 | The suspense is because our winnings depend not just on which card we have played ( which we each know ) , but on the other player 's card too ( which we do n't know until the banker reveals it ) . |
| 28 | ‘ I wo n't know until the rota 's up . ’ |
| 29 | As for how many personal computers could be supported by a local network-connected PS/2 , the company admits that it simply wo n't know until the code is finished , but the implication is that it will be many more than 40 , and that the local network might run out of capacity before the server will . |
| 30 | ‘ We wo n't know until the doctor sees him if he will be fit to travel to Spain with England , ’ said manager George Graham . |