Example sentences of "[not/n't] know [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a boy , of course , I was not to know of such matters , such degradation , such humiliation and indignities . |
| 2 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 3 | I do not know about that kind of radical suggestion , but the police were very successful last year in closing down four domestic manufacturers of Ecstasy — hence the fact that most of the drug being sold on our streets comes from abroad , some from continental Europe . |
| 4 | ‘ That woman did not know about such birthmarks . |
| 5 | I did not know about any of this , because they had put a sleeping powder in my wine , and I was in a deep sleep . |
| 6 | You do not know about these things . |
| 7 | [ The ] new languages provided only very modest space for parody : these languages hardly know , and now do not know at all , sacred words , since they themselves were born to a significant extent out of a parody of the sacred word . |
| 8 | There were amused smiles , but they did not know at all why Alain had done that . |
| 9 | They were , he said , ‘ cultural orphans ’ , and ‘ the children just did not know at all how to keep a house clean . |
| 10 | I I 'm grateful I I I 'm winding up that we on this side we do believe that these additional six seats are very important because we believe that the European parliament elections are going to be very important and fighting them on these new boundaries with the minimum of delay in spite of the delay that had been caused by the government' incompetence , we regard as very important , we regard this debate tonight as very important to approve these orders because we can not so far work out whether the government will be fighting the er the whole campaign on the basis of back to basics while the E P P will be doing it on the basis of some other manifesto , vorsprung durch technik or whatever it might be , and they 'll be trying to merge those into two slogans of o of er vorsprung durch basics or or whatever it might be and this we do not know at all whether the government want to be part of Europe and whether their back benchers are gon na be willing to cooperate with the European peoples party or they take the money from the European peoples party but they do n't want to participate with them in the manifesto . |
| 11 | With regard to the incident this morning , we do not know at this stage whether the injured man was operating a taxi or not . |
| 12 | But we shall not know for some time yet . |
| 13 | But the people who are running them often do not know of each other 's existence , or if they do , they find it difficult to cooperate with one another . |
| 14 | I do not know of that detailed work , but she has made an interesting comment on the position in the United States . |
| 15 | People from other lineages might not know of these particular marriages , but they had similar marriages of their own , similar reminders in their own genealogies that they had made a special and enduring peace with other lineages . |
| 16 | Thirdly , our young painter would not know of any other artistic centre beside Paris and would not imagine that such a place might exist . |
| 17 | But Gaily knew that he would not go , not even once , to the club , though he did not know of any reason , beyond a feeling , a shrinking-back from an uncongenial world , a novelty , the element of surprise . |
| 18 | I do not know of any direct evidence that sexually transmitted diseases increase the libido of sufferers , but I conjecture that it would be worth looking into . |
| 19 | It was my view that float fishing would not be a good idea anyhow , for I did not know of any big bream swims close enough to the bank for a float cast . |
| 20 | Unfortunately the authors do not know of any existing Green oil painting . |
| 21 | It was evident that he did not know of any solution . ’ |
| 22 | We do not know of any other reports of a similar nature but we know of a lady whose left hip joint was completely destroyed as a result of rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 23 | My own society , SOLACE ( Society for the liberation of animals from cruelty and exploitation ) , claims no such thing and I do not know of any society that does . |
| 24 | I do not know of any study of this change which can answer that question in anything like a precise and well-documented fashion . |
| 25 | And I do not know of any other argument , not relying on PC k , which Nozick could use to show that we do not know we are not brains in a vat without showing that we do not know most other things either . |
| 26 | Constanza agreed with much of what he had to say ; but he did not know of any way of not letting down Anna either . |
| 27 | I do not know of any recipe . |
| 28 | We do not peer review advertisements as we peer review scientific papers , and I do not know of any medical journals that do . |
| 29 | He felt fairly confident that Nigel Steen , or whoever was mounting the campaign against her , did not know of any tie-up with Charles Paris . |
| 30 | The very word imperialism is modern ; I do not know of any serious attempt to grasp the dynamics of any imperialism — old or new — before J. A. Hobson 's Imperialism in 1902 . |