Example sentences of "know the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone in the whole marine department just threw up their hands in horror and told me I was crazy , I did n't know the first thing about ships , the whole marine fleet would fall apart . |
| 2 | ‘ You do n't know the first thing about the business , woman . ’ |
| 3 | He had been told that he did n't know the first thing about it , that the young were all the same , destructive and careless , that Mrs Irving set a value on her privacy . |
| 4 | I 've been so hoping you would soon be ready to join Brownies , but how can I pass over to a Brownie Guider a girl who wo n't lend a hand without being given something first and who does n't know the first thing about being obedient ? ’ |
| 5 | And anyway , even if we ask them , I mean , even if they think we can do something about it , though Christ knows what , I do n't want a lot of knowalls who have n't got any kids and do n't know the first thing about them telling us what to do with ours — ’ |
| 6 | You need only know the first , who is Alex Raneleigh , based in Brussels . |
| 7 | ‘ But I do n't know the first thing about being a dog , ’ young Anabelle pointed out . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know the first thing about anything , really . ’ |
| 9 | I do n't know the first thing about brochs . |
| 10 | Some of the people who talk about commitment do n't know the first thing about it . |
| 11 | You do n't know the first thing , do you ? " |
| 12 | You simply do n't know the first thing about marriage , do you ? |
| 13 | ‘ Most of them do n't know the first thing about sailing . ’ |
| 14 | She did n't know the first thing about him , after all . |
| 15 | And as I had this urge to correct manuscripts as I went along , and could n't read his handwriting , and did n't know the first thing about Roman Britain , you can imagine he felt obliged to educate me . |
| 16 | What was she doing , anyway , going out with a man she did n't know the first thing about ? |
| 17 | ‘ You do n't know the first thing about my relationship with Florian ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He did n't know the first thing about you , did he ? ’ |
| 19 | Do n't you know the first thing about seduction ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ You do n't know the first thing about the way I work . ’ |
| 21 | You do n't know the first thing about me ! |
| 22 | He 's an engineer , does n't know the first thing about literature , but Puddephat makes it all sound scientific by using these very long words . |
| 23 | First can I just ask , as , as somebody who 's building a paper aeroplane you got assumption whatsoever , so am I supposed to say I do n't know the first thing about making a paper aeroplane , you you told me . |
| 24 | ‘ But Ross — I do n't know the first thing about children ! ’ she exclaimed helplessly . |
| 25 | I 'm anxious to do what I can , but I do n't know the first thing about looking after children . |
| 26 | You do n't know the first thing about real life . ’ |
| 27 | Only then did she realise that , for all she had been in his company for a total of several hours now , she still did n't know the first thing about him . |
| 28 | ‘ But I do n't know the first thing about baking , ’ stammered Charlie as he fell back into his chair . |
| 29 | ‘ Because one thing 's for certain , Charlie Trumper , ’ she told him as they sat down in the little room at the back of Salmon 's to check the monthly accounts , ‘ you do n't know the first thing about butchery . |
| 30 | And now all of them have months which are always the same length of four weeks exactly four weeks so you 'd always know the first of the month would be a Sunday or whatever day you choose to start on and the seventh would always be a Sunday and the fourteenth would be a Sunday and so on . |