Example sentences of "[not/n't] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a boy , of course , I was not to know of such matters , such degradation , such humiliation and indignities . |
| 2 | He appeared genuinely not to know of Atkins and to be trying to be helpful . |
| 3 | She did n't look old enough not to know of the riggers . |
| 4 | " … I would think it a sufficient detriment to the confider that information given in confidence is to be disclosed to persons whom he would prefer not to know of it , even though the disclosure would not be harmful to him in any positive way . " |
| 5 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 6 | For a girl not to know about periods before she has them ? |
| 7 | I 'm not to know about the gates … |
| 8 | I thought you preferred not to know about the mechanics of miracles . ’ |
| 9 | Non-drinkers tended not to know about Guinness and found the advertisements very difficult to understand . |
| 10 | Send not to know by whom the trigger is squeezed , it is squeezed by us all . |
| 11 | But , my Lord Mayor , Labour were not to know in the early eighties how popular the Tenants Right to Buy would be . |
| 12 | As BS knows everything relevant about the physical state of affairs , the things that he does not know about are not physical states of affairs . |
| 13 | ‘ Lord Aldington did not know about the massacre and brutality . |
| 14 | No secrets and no money , that we do not know about and does not belong to all of us . ’ |
| 15 | You do not know about these things . |
| 16 | Testifying two years later , George thought that meant : ‘ You wo n't tell the CIA ; they must not know about it . ’ |
| 17 | In Darwin 's lifetime , physicists did not know about radioactivity , and therefore thought that the earth would cool down rather quickly . |
| 18 | Here two out of every three farmers/part-time farmers did not know about training activities . |
| 19 | Of course , there were some things she could not know about . |
| 20 | As a result it is hard to think of any technical innovations , whether in the military or civilian field , that Russia does not know about . |
| 21 | In particular , criminal statistics only show what police forces record , and the police clearly can not be expected to record the numerous offences which they do not know about . |
| 22 | When we first arrived home from Hong Kong , we did not know about the aorta problem , so two days after our homecoming Michael went to London for a further two days of meetings . |
| 23 | Is there a cure that they do not know about ? |
| 24 | Given so little space , however , perhaps we need not have been reminded , as we are in Stanley Cramp 's foreword , that ‘ Ducks , geese , and swans live in or near water ’ , nor that the legs of the last two ‘ are placed near the middle of the body , so that the bird stands fairly upright ’ , Malcolm Ogilvie can tell most people something they did not know about wildfowl , but in this case his publishers clearly rushed him . |
| 25 | First , for all the vast span of time of the Triassic , only a few faunas are known ; there must be many others that we do not know about . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , that led to a minor accident involving the property of the Hauxwells which I suspect even Hannah will not know about . |
| 27 | A day later , Edouard still did not know about the baby . |
| 28 | But I am sure that what determined her to write to me was this paragraph : ‘ The author we most admire has rightly said that people do not know about families ; but Stephen and I know . |
| 29 | But she did not know about religion . |
| 30 | One need not know about them to hold them out as a threat . |