Example sentences of "not knowing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here some effort will be made to explore the theoretical significance of the commonly-experienced phenomenon of hearing a voice and knowing that it is familiar but not knowing to whom it belongs . |
| 2 | Treading the water , not knowing on whom we feed . |
| 3 | Mozart began work on Tito in late July , not knowing at that stage who the singers were going to be . |
| 4 | Helen had waited for five minutes , not knowing at all why , then followed him into the bedroom . |
| 5 | I regarded it as a very happy accident that I went to U.C.L. to study English , not knowing at the time that I was going to a Department and to a College distinguished for English language studies . |
| 6 | Sometimes , when we got back rather later than usual , my father was already preparing to send out a search party in — as I thought then , not knowing about Grandma 's lapses — his usual agitated way . |
| 7 | ‘ What happens when you think of all those months in the Store not knowing about the Outside ? ’ |
| 8 | Not knowing about electricity , but knowing about hydraulic systems , Descartes suggested that the control of these reactions in animals was mediated by movements of fluids , initiated in the sensory nerves by stimuli , being carried to the ventricular system of the brain where contact was made with the motor nerves . |
| 9 | We 've heard a tonight about carers erm , not knowing about |
| 10 | Fancy not knowing about your uncle 's wife ! |
| 11 | The real point of this story is that , so far as I know , Eliot never read the Hardy Preface , because when I referred to it again about twenty-five years later , he gave the impression of not knowing about it . |
| 12 | Anyone researching local history in a library , not finding such books , and not knowing of their existence , could embark on exhaustive duplication of work already done before . |
| 13 | The arbitrator , not knowing of this agreement , made no order as to costs . |
| 14 | Someone sent somebody out to kill two hens ; a local gentleman , knowing the lie of the land , sent his servant to the inn with rum and sugar and an apology for not knowing of their arrival in sufficient time to put them up , and he had to leave for Inverness at the crack of dawn ; Boswell still had some bread despite the amount he had doled out to the Macraes . |
| 15 | ‘ No , Mother 's parents told her , not knowing of course why Phena wanted to know . |
| 16 | ‘ Is n't it exciting , not knowing in the least what the place is like , or anything ? |
| 17 | Goodenache watched them , not knowing in his befuddled state what to do . |
| 18 | not knowing from a distance |
| 19 | they were in one sense still asleep and unable to know about their sexual organs , using the defence of not knowing against an anxiety aroused by the prospect of copulation . |