Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] not know [Wh adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To date I must admit that I do n't know why they sit tight . |
| 2 | ‘ Do n't think that I do n't know when I 'm being blackmailed — because I do ! ’ she told him bitterly , before giving a heavy sigh . |
| 3 | Unfortunately there are so many parameters available that I do n't know where to start ! |
| 4 | The Air Force will write to his mother if there 's anything to tell , and the awful part of it is that I do n't know where she lives . |
| 5 | Well I 'll have to accept that I do n't know where that came from but I 've got down here state 's interest |
| 6 | It is so similar to the language that he used on previous timetable motions that I do not know why he does not take a tape and mime to it . |
| 7 | I lied and shouted back that I did n't know where it was . |
| 8 | However , this sensation evaporated as soon as I looked out of the window , when I realized how imprisoned I was by my ignorance , which Aisha seized upon , exploiting the fact that I did n't know how to flush the toilet , work the shower , turn on the oven or boil the electric kettle to make tea , and that I could n't understand what her older child or her next-door neighbour said . |
| 9 | The truth was that I did n't know how to effect such an aim , and if I found myself eating any more than the minimum — that is , enough for me to remain undetected by the authorities-I considered myself guilty of backsliding , and had to punish myself by eating even less the next day or at the next meal . |
| 10 | It was of no importance to the success of my Superette that I did not know how Spratts Processed Peas were manufactured , therefore when running a football team it can be of no importance if Leslie and I do not know how many players it contains . |
| 11 | She says that she does n't know why there 's all this fuss . |
| 12 | Sometimes she said simply that she did not know when he would be back and dropped the phone . |
| 13 | The clash came as Mr Kinnock exploited the apparent contradiction between Mrs Thatcher 's claim that she did not know why Mr Lawson resigned and the former Chancellor 's assertion in last Sunday 's Walden interview that he had made it quite clear to the Prime Minister that Sir Alan Walter 's continued presence as her economic adviser was the only issue . |
| 14 | Dorothea realised that she did not know how old Alida was but it must be around her own age . |
| 15 | And the worst part was that she did n't know how long she was going to have to stay here . |
| 16 | She wanted to be held by him , and as the sad , poignant music began it set up a yearning inside of her that she did n't know how to dispel . |
| 17 | If you change course later on in the essay , it will be obvious that you do not know where you are going or that you have not planned your essay with enough care . |
| 18 | The explanation is that you lack control or feel at the end of the stick , and the reason is that you do not know where the end is . |
| 19 | ‘ Very well , Miss Adams , I 'll give you the benefit of the doubt and concede that you do n't know why my sister needs her husband 's support so badly . ’ |
| 20 | — An ichor that you do n't know how to tap . |
| 21 | In a long dissertation it might be justified as a way of helping your reader remember your starting point ; in a short essay , however , it is redundant and simply shows that you do n't know how to finish . |
| 22 | It 's just that you do n't know how we do it here , Captain Owen . |
| 23 | It remains true that we do not know when Marseilles became the main receiving point of the tin which was carried on horseback for thirty days from the British Channel . |
| 24 | The short answer to this question is that we do not know how homoeopathic remedies work any more than we know how the majority of orthodox pharmaceuticals work . |
| 25 | Morally speaking , one of the worst aspects of the autonomy-centred Enlightenment attitude has been to denigrate the receptive virtues , to make us so obsessed with giving that we do not know how to receive . |
| 26 | The difficulty with these two studies , unfortunately , is that we do not know how many patients ended up with a definite myocardial infarction ; an initial electrocardiogram only was used . |
| 27 | The truth of the matter is that we do not know how — in any meaningful , scientific , experimentally demonstrable sense — advertising works . |
| 28 | ‘ It is a failing common to those of us who have achieved greatness , ’ he said , ‘ that we do not know how to beg for favour . ’ |
| 29 | One could imagine a ‘ price pause ’ for a limited time ; but after that — is there something familiar about all this ? — one would have to start discovering which prices ought to rise and which ought to fall to offset them , and this is just what we want a commission to do for us because we pretend that we do n't know how to do it for ourselves . |
| 30 | The main outstanding issue is that we do n't know how colour-coding receptive fields are constructed out of wavelength-coding receptive fields at other stages in the system . |