Example sentences of "without know [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Yeah or I mean which accents do you think people sound more intelligent when they 've got I mean , it 's not that 's heavily match- guised cos in match guised people are doing it without knowing what they 're doing . |
2 | However , when somebody else uses your program they are not blessed with your insight and they may find the program " crashing out " to the command mode without knowing what they have done wrong . |
3 | Oh nineteen sixties we , we introduced that with the blessing of the ambulance people as well , it was n't done without careful consideration , because erm we did n't want people to , to just erm introduce it without knowing what we were doing and ever since we used it it 's been a great blessing . |
4 | Once arrested , a person may be detained for up to 3 days without knowing what he/she is alleged to have done . |
5 | The rich scent of palm oil mixed with special powdered wood came to him and without knowing what he did , he sniffed his own hand . |
6 | Jed had turned up without knowing what he was going to say , but now he knew . |
7 | Further anecdotes on the fame of Champagne wines in the fourteenth century are told by Max Sutaine in his Essai sur l'histoire des vins de la Champagne ( 1845 ) ; in particular he relates how , when the German king Wenceslas arrived in Reims in 1397 to discuss with Charles VI the division within the church over the popes of Avignon ( a subject Henry Vizetelly describes in A History of Champagne ( 1882 ) as ‘ very fit for a drunkard and a madman to put their heads together about ’ ) he became so intoxicated on the local wines that he signed all the documents before him , departing without knowing what he had signed . |
8 | Without knowing what he 'd got . |
9 | The bills came on the morning of the burial , and he suddenly drew them from his pocket during the service , opening them without knowing what he was doing . |
10 | How could she be anything else without knowing what he wanted ? |
11 | Her face loomed huge and strong and worried and he struggled with the dryness in his throat , trying to ask a question without knowing what it was . |
12 | ‘ Without knowing what it is I ca n't say — and it 's not something I can rush because the girl wo n't talk if she 's frightened , or she 'll talk but not tell us the truth . |
13 | ‘ What , ’ said Diderot , ‘ you did it from instinct without knowing what you were doing ! |
14 | A : It 's difficult to pin down precisely where you 've gone wrong without knowing what you typed in at the command line to begin restoring . |
15 | Instead of staying carefully on his side of the screen — ‘ She goes left , I go right ’ — he suddenly stepped forward , centre stage , out of his position , out of the whole plot of the operetta , threw out his arms in the great expansive sexual gesture that never failed to work with the audiences , and began to sing in front of Therese , ignoring the screen , ignoring the action , making a total mockery of the whole theme of a bride and groom who marry without knowing who they are . |
16 | Without knowing it we became a political organization in that we shared an experience of oppression , a sense of direction , and the will and the confidence to act . |
17 | Altogether , then , we can say the tune is predictable , not in the sense that without knowing it we are sure exactly what is coming next but in the sense that when we hear the next phrase , our reaction is , ‘ yes , I thought something like that was coming ’ . |
18 | Without knowing it I have been living in poverty for the past 14 years . |
19 | We used the same old path , and I was amazed to realise that without knowing it I had been hurrying my children along and constantly looking over my shoulder . |