Example sentences of "[not/n't] know [Wh pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ought they not to know who is right ? |
| 2 | We do not know who are our friends and who our enemies . |
| 3 | David Abell has said he does not know who is behind Sterling . |
| 4 | Boat Race : ‘ I do not know who is ahead , but it 's either Oxford or Cambridge . ’ |
| 5 | When Simon pressed and won his claim for an assistant inspector to supervise the national vaccination scheme in 1871 , the current permanent secretary , Ralph Lingen , issued a general warning in the accompanying minute : ‘ I do not know who is to check the assertion of experts when the government has once undertaken a class of duties which none but such persons understand . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You do not know who is your friend or who is your enemy until the ice breaks . ’ |
| 7 | I do not know who is meeting Le Pen and I have made my views clear . |
| 8 | I do not know who was more apprehensive , them or me . |
| 9 | He did not know who was to be detained or whether any were to be released . |
| 10 | B would be more precise than A , for in A we should not know who was being spoken of ( " him " ) but in B we should find it stated ( " God " ) . |
| 11 | He did not know who was trying to break in . |
| 12 | In all probability , the author did not know who was responsible for the original compilation : he merely assumed that legislation was an appropriate activity for the founder of a kingdom . |
| 13 | Employment and exposure records date from before the occurrence of leukaemia in the children , and the link to industry files was done by industry staff who did not know who were the parents of cases and who were the parents of controls . |
| 14 | We do not know who were the owners , nor what the objects meant to the owners . |
| 15 | It is not known who was the mother of Osred , Aldfrith 's son and successor , nor when Aldfrith 's queen , Cuthburh , parted from him to found a nunnery at Wimborne ( ASC A , s.a. 718 ) . |
| 16 | She was equally sure that she had not known who was speaking to her brother too . |
| 17 | ‘ We do n't know who is spreading these rumours but the reason seems to change with each caller . ’ |
| 18 | I do n't know who is he ? |
| 19 | ‘ I tell you what I really do n't like , ’ he says , staring down at the club floor below , ‘ I do n't like if I do n't know who are friends and who are enemies . |
| 20 | Moreover , neighbourhood police expressed a sensitivity to the effect which these casual encounters might have on the safety of those they talked to ‘ for you do n't know who 's watching ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ You do n't know who 's hiding in that snicket by the church — it could be the vicar or it could be Dracula , they look the same when it 's dark . |
| 22 | This way he knows live trees are being felled , but he does n't know who 's felling them . ’ |
| 23 | Just be a bit er bit , bit er wary of them in the sense that you do n't know who 's managing the fund , er because it 's their money , it 's not your money , they do n't actually invest the money from you , it 's their money they 're investing . |
| 24 | Erm is almost to go back so that I do n't know who 's on the course but Jayne 's course for example , |
| 25 | blokes living a going there , you do n't know who 's there . |
| 26 | about it , because you see I do n't want anyone breaking my door down and bashing in , you do n't know who 's who these days , do you and er but you see they , that 's how . |
| 27 | I do n't know who 's our representative to , and |
| 28 | I thought that , and I 'm not an expert in but I thought this was a penetrating critique and all goes well for how the department is handling in a very difficult starting situation , a most important matter but there is Mr spoke to me about this paper and er I think we will have to hear what Mr had to say , I do n't know who 's going to report that . |
| 29 | Okay and just one th I do n't know who 's responsible for the area by the the washing hose . |
| 30 | Er I do n't know who 's responsible for the area , if nobody is , I 'll get somebody to tidy it up . |