Example sentences of "do not know " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They do not visit and do not know their neighbours . |
| 2 | ‘ The White Rabbit had put on his spectacles , but he did not know where to start . |
| 3 | I did not know what to do with it , why I was there . |
| 4 | I did not know it was possible for foie gras to be tasteless , but the complete omission of seasoning certainly showed I was wrong . |
| 5 | I said I did not know — I did n't know what I was letting myself in for . |
| 6 | with one exception , all [ scholars ] contacted have expressed strongly that the service did not appear to see the practical relevance of university training , did not know how to exploit the benefits gained by the individual and in many cases showed noticeable coolness to those who were part of it . |
| 7 | Whether because they had ceased to be pleased about her birthday or simply because they were tired , she did not know . |
| 8 | He did not know of one who had anything to thank the Flemyngs for , or old Menzies at the Castle . |
| 9 | As Cameron opened with his usual explanation of the Act , he did not know that the Reverend William McIvor , a tall whiskery man with coarse orange hair and very pale blue eyes , had stayed outside his manse , in the cover of a thick yew tree , and was listening hard with a hand cupped round his ear . |
| 10 | Possibly he also washed his face , she did not know , never having asked him . |
| 11 | Susan did not know how she felt about this until she saw that he had painted himself and herself half-way up or half-way down , looking up or down at their reflections in the water . |
| 12 | In the kitchen she found Rodney stirring the contents of two saucepans and Veronica , John and a young man she did not know sitting at the table drinking wine . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , there 's Laura in the other room ’ Maggie waved cheerily to a woman she did not know . |
| 14 | Bees — the bumble and the honey — and butterflies — red admirals and small , delicate blue ones whose name I did not know — tilted at each other in the warm summer air . |
| 15 | Thus , Oedipus married Jocasta and knew he did ; he also married his mother and did not know he did . |
| 16 | Yet this writer 's abiding impression of the eighties is that management along with the government did not know when to stop . |
| 17 | Rather plainly the poem decides , as others have decided before and since , that the revolution 's humble heroes , revolution once accomplished , did not know what to do with the liberation they had achieved . |
| 18 | While Wasps could relax and enjoy their Goldington Road romp , Bedford learned nothing that they did not know already . |
| 19 | He did not know that in his last months he had developed a fatal heart condition . |
| 20 | He said said the Government was keeping interest rates high because it did not know what else to do . |
| 21 | ‘ Lord Aldington did not know about the massacre and brutality . |
| 22 | He says he did not know it had been . |
| 23 | ‘ But in May 1945 I did not know that they would be killed and I did not know until Count Tolstoy drew it to my attention in 1979 , 1980 and 1985 . |
| 24 | ‘ But in May 1945 I did not know that they would be killed and I did not know until Count Tolstoy drew it to my attention in 1979 , 1980 and 1985 . |
| 25 | He threw himself vigorously into the work in hand , and presented the aspect of one who did not know when to stop . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ We have very good arguments to prove that we can not be held responsible for the actions of a few people who did not know what they were doing . |
| 27 | Mr Stockdale , however , said he did not know of Mr Carway 's record , despite having a long business relationship with him . |
| 28 | Indeed , if one did not know Cruyff better , one might have mistaken for gloom the mood in which he unsmilingly accepted his reprieve . |
| 29 | She knew she had inherited something unique ; she did not know how to save it ; she found out ; and she did it , down to the last chair cover . |
| 30 | Financial markets yesterday naively expected something , although they did not know what , from Nigel Lawson , the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |