Example sentences of "[pron] know nothing about " in BNC.

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1 A little later , she glanced again at the book and said : ‘ A side of life I know nothing about .
2 I belong to a family I know nothing about and I do n't feel secure or grounded any longer .
3 Of course there could be plenty of others I know nothing about . ’
4 It was a kind of lifestyle I knew nothing about , having always lived in South Kensington .
5 He had been a very successful amateur boxer , and sometimes would try to relieve our tension by sparring with me , teaching me basic moves of a sport I knew nothing about and instinctively detested .
6 I understood that you might like me better if I had experience , if I did n't have opinions about things I knew nothing about . … ’
7 It can be hard if they are all in a group talking about people or things you know nothing about .
8 If you are tempted in the direction of a fish you know nothing about , resist the impulse to buy it , until you know something about its requirements .
9 She and I are going to clean Moor House from top to bottom , and make all the Christmas preparations that you know nothing about , being only a man .
10 ‘ I understand only that you intend to meddle in things you know nothing about , ’ he said .
11 And number three ; you 've signed your way into a deal you know nothing about and which has almost certainly sold you up the river .
12 Go and find Donal , Ellie , she told herself sternly , instead of mooning over a man you know nothing about and probably would n't like if you did .
13 There were reminders in every cupboard and corner of how much she was missing Charles and how worried she was about this expedition to a country she knew nothing about and which she hardly knew where to find on a map .
14 Monty influenced Susannah and she became convinced that she was entitled to scientific opinions regarding a subject she knew nothing about .
15 This , of course , is the jade you swore you knew nothing about . ’
16 I should like to have found you something nicer to do , but I could n't let you go to people we know nothing about , and Mrs Andrews says that her cousin is sure to take care of you .
17 Oh well , there 's no harm done in this case , only you really must be more chary of giving invitations to people we know nothing about . ’
18 ‘ Because we are playing with mysterious forces , my child , that we know nothing about .
19 We are cut off from their happy little world which we know nothing about and are unable to recognise much of our ways within theirs .
20 Something in his private life we know nothing about . ’
21 This was considered serious enough by the Keraing to have supplied Tandri with the cost of a new mast which he had promised to have cut from the forest of Bouton , an island we knew nothing about on the south-east of Celebes , a two-day sail across the Gulf of Palopo .
22 ‘ But , on the other hand , probably very few of them decide on a whim to spend their entire capital on a shop in a strange city in a country they know nothing about , without doing the most elementary homework .
23 I knew about them because of being at art college and I took Steve and Paul down with me and introduced them to a scene they knew nothing about .
24 Dean 's parents spoke out angrily in the Mirror yesterday , after we had revealed the existence of the bug that they knew nothing about .
25 Pointing her finger at the misplaced moral fervour of the WSPU and the LNA , she claimed that these ‘ dabblers in debauchery ’ had set middle-class women on the rampage against an evil they knew nothing about .
26 There was just one problem they knew nothing about .
27 If he spoke out , he was accused of poking his nose into matters he knew nothing about ; if he stayed out of it , he was accused of slacking and taking too many holidays .
28 He went to fish a water he knew nothing about , and arrived in darkness .
29 SUPERFIT Huw O'Brien died from a heart disease he knew nothing about , a post mortem revealed yesterday .
30 The fraud was uncovered when William Wilby received a letter saying he was overdrawn on an account he knew nothing about .
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