Example sentences of "that [pron] did [adv] know what " in BNC.
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1 | I kept talking to his mother and the girl at the cash-register , but I was so distracted that I did n't know what I was saying . |
2 | ‘ It 's the Suo ’ he said , and grinned smugly , secure in the knowledge that I did n't know what one was . |
3 | She gave such an unpleasant laugh with these last words that I did n't know what to say , and as I left the house I felt even more miserable . |
4 | I had never heard the word and unwisely said that I did n't know what it meant . |
5 | the fact that she 's , she 's intelligent as well erm she , you know , she 's gon na s she knew that I did n't know what I was talking about so she said right you look , yo you look er you , you ask them about this , this , this and this and they might say this to you , so I knew what , if they asked me , I knew what I was talking about rather than |
6 | If I said , ‘ It looks blue ’ but otherwise seemed incapable of colour discrimination , of being able to respond differently , verbally and in other ways , to differently coloured things , and , particularly , of being able to tell when other blue things were present and when absent , then people would rightly suspect that I did not know what I was talking about , that my experience could not really be of its looking blue . |
7 | There would be no more In Love redemption , thought Jay , in fact all she knew was that she did n't know what Love was . |
8 | But now she was whispering too and Dot knew that she did n't know what was out there with them either . |
9 | Susie said quietly that she did n't know what she wanted — she had come because Peter had asked her to . |
10 | What did it matter that she did n't know what to say to him ? |
11 | Of course , old Meg is not to be relied upon at all , owing to her unfortunate fondness for the bottle , and when I heard that she was the source of the story I said that it could n't possibly be the case , that she did n't know what she had seen , as usual — ’ |
12 | With a look that she did n't know what to make of at all , he walked across to the revolving stand that held coats much like the one he was wearing , removed the sign that said ‘ Guaranteed Waterproof ’ , and tore it in half . |
13 | The fact that she did n't know what he was really feeling — and then she had closed the door on ever finding out . |
14 | She added that she did n't know what would become of the family now that her brother was no longer around to take care of them . |
15 | ‘ He did once say to me that we did n't know what we 'd got a hold of . |
16 | Everything was so sudden that we did n't know what to do , whether to stay where we were or to run . |
17 | ‘ Well , I 'll tell you , but remember that we did n't know what we were going to find when we finally broke in . |
18 | The Government can not say , as an excuse , that they did not know what was going on and how it could escalate . |
19 | Too many of us now say that they did n't know what was going on , and that they were long opposed to what was happening . |
20 | They looked me over , said that they did n't know what it was and sent me home . |
21 | I shouted that he did not know what he was talking about and held the telephone away from my face . |
22 | Charles stated that he did not know what was to take place , and would not have entered St Peter 's basilica if he had known . |
23 | With his junior staff loyally taking the blame and trying to pretend he knew nothing about it ( despite his signature on the 17 January presidential order ) , Reagan began to believe he had known nothing about it and it is possible that he did not know what he was signing . |
24 | Before long , through unobtrusive questioning , he had discovered the root of the boy 's fear — simply that he did not know what was going to be done to him . |
25 | THE MASTERS champion said before the event that he did n't know what he was going to do with himself until he relinquished his title . |
26 | Did he tell anyone that he did n't know what to do ? |
27 | And the person awarding the prizes had to admit that he did n't know what her time had been , even though she had run a superb race and had beaten the course record by a full four minutes . |
28 | I ca n't explain , it was also the feeling that he did n't know what to do . |
29 | She sensed that he did n't know what to do with it , and did n't want to admit his ignorance . |
30 | " If he actually signed the letter it would be difficult to prove that he did n't know what was in it , " Sir Edmund observed . |