Example sentences of "[Wh pn] do [not/n't] know " in BNC.

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1 You stand by the window with a pathetic glass of lemonade while all father 's secretaries drink champagne and try to make conversation with hoards of people who do n't know enough to speak English .
2 The Japanese are now the only ones who do n't know what went on . ’
3 ‘ They 're ways of recycling first-year money directly into third-year pockets — from students who do n't know how to spend it to those who really need it .
4 ‘ It has character , a great manager in Roger Craig and 24 guys who do n't know how to quit . ’
5 Ever-improving standards of production and design ( hear Arnold Bennett in 1921 complaining that ‘ operatic mismanagers are obsessed with the music and they leave everything else to people who are either dead and have forgotten to get themselves buried or who do n't know the elements of their job ’ ) .
6 I ca n't bear people who do n't know what they want and dither . ’
7 The doctor , universally known as ‘ Hubert ’ , was rotund , but it was a jolly bouncing roundness , not like the disgusting pot-bellied men who do n't know whether to wear their trousers above or below their pots .
8 And you begin to say things that do n't make any sense to people who do n't know what 's going on between you , but you know that the other person , to whom what you 've said is really addressed will know what you mean , even though he may not actually be there .
9 A commonly held view is that ‘ we 're all of us … moving … into the category of those who do n't know what day it is . ’
10 The new congregation has a heaven sent opportunity to begin again to do all it can in public worship to present Christ in such a way that those who do n't know him can find him .
11 God 's plan is for ordinary Christian people ( the workers ) to help the harvest ( people who do n't know God ) to know who God is .
12 Students who do n't know who half their lecturers are at the best of times ca n't be in a position to decide on their pay packets .
13 Those involved in the scene understand limits and respect boundaries — they know that people who do n't know where to stop are dangerous .
14 ‘ Most of these councillors are just hangers-on in suits who do n't know the meaning of an honest day 's graft . ’
15 YOU CAN always spot people who do n't know anything about pop music when they ca n't tell the blokes from the women on records .
16 People who do n't know what they 're doing can kill birds of prey — their weight is very delicately balanced , as you 've seen from the trouble I had finding the right flying weight for Dawn .
17 For those who do n't know it , the Haute Route runs from Chamonix to Zermatt in the Alps and is one of the best known routes in Europe .
18 They are concerned that agency staff and new staff who do n't know what the women have achieved will undermine progress , or even reverse it , by underestimating their capabilities .
19 I 've talked to other people whose mothers came to naturopathy in the fifties , and it 's been explained as a way of eating posh for those who do n't know about Continental food .
20 There are managers who are not highly literate in any case and who do n't know how to put a report together .
21 Now at this st this stage usually the do-gooders who do n't know any better and put and insist that something should go in the mouth and it should n't , you never ever put anything in anybody 's mouth at all .
22 There are lies , damned lies , and statistics , but there are no lies more damned than those created by statisticians who do n't know what they 're about .
23 People who do n't know anything about it might assume that it simply involves standing in front of a camera or walking down a catwalk .
24 I feel too tired to sleep so I play some Despot when I get home but my heart 's not in it and the Empire is still in a tattered-looking state after all the earlier disasters and I 'm almost wondering if I should start again but that would mean going back to the fucking dawn of civilisation and the temptation in Despot is always to swap PoV , which people who do n't know the game always think sounds sort of innocent , like some detail , but it is n't : you 're not just swapping point of View , you 're swapping your current Despotic power Level for something less , even if it 's a regional lord or other king or a general or royal relation close to the throne , and it is not to be done lightly because as soon as you renounce the current Despot 's PoV the computer takes over and it 's a smart fucking piece of software .
25 McDunn really wants to help , I can see that , but he 's under pressure , too ; the circumstantial evidence against me is so strong people who do n't know the details of the case are getting impatient over the lack of progress .
26 Could you send it to another school , to be viewed by people who do n't know any of the people who took part in the recording ?
27 I am not referring to the victims , of course , who do n't know me and who , for all practical purposes , are n't human but come in sections of interest , so that even their smiles and yawns and frowns come in sections .
28 Later he said : ‘ People who do n't know him would n't get the same impression at all . ’
29 What about those who do n't know their jobs ? "
30 It 's No I was going to say , there are those perhaps who 'd h have n't heard and those who do n't know about it .
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