Example sentences of "i know nothing " in BNC.
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1 | This is either some magic geometry of which I know nothing or it is a happy coincidence . |
2 | I know nothing about Mukden except that it and Blackpool are equally unlucky in their names . |
3 | ‘ I know nothing about them hedgerow heathens , ’ he snapped as he went on his way , ‘ an' if you take my advice you 'll watch your pockets . ’ |
4 | Lord Tedder , vice-chairman in the early fifties , admitted that ‘ I know nothing at all about broadcasting , but I can learn . |
5 | The reader will not , however , begrudge the author 's serendipity which , especially at election time , succeeded in extracting for him the following from Smollett 's Humphrey Clinker ( 1771 ) : I know nothing so abject as the behaviour of a man canvassing for a seat in Parliament . |
6 | I know nothing about hunger . |
7 | ‘ I know nothing about that , ’ Peace countered sharply . |
8 | I know nothing about him . ’ |
9 | I can not claim to know better , I know nothing , I never have known very much , but I fear for her . |
10 | In view of the circumstances of his team 's downfall , perhaps the most ironic touch about the final was that Chapman had said in the Sunday Express a week before the game : ‘ I know nothing of the art of clairvoyance , but I should feel happier if someone would foretell me the vital incident which is almost sure to decide the match . |
11 | I know nothing about cells but it 's still a pretty horrendous figure , and yet , apparently most people so smitten have absolutely no knowledge of what is happening within them because everything is being taken care of by that wonderful , benign , unpaid fire brigade of ours , our immune system . |
12 | ‘ I say merely that I know nothing of your late wife . |
13 | I know nothing of his voyage through the Middle Passage . ’ |
14 | I know nothing of modern painting , I have seen so little , and it was her passion . |
15 | A little later , she glanced again at the book and said : ‘ A side of life I know nothing about . |
16 | ‘ Of course I know nothing about the process of childbirth , ’ she said , with an austere expression about her lips … . |
17 | I know nothing of the circumstances of his illness , but he was dying angrily and his procrastinations could be sufficiently explained by a need to hold on to life , to defer events into the future . |
18 | ‘ Look , ’ he told his colleagues , ‘ I know nothing about diamonds . |
19 | I know nothing of such matters ; I thought arranging such a consignment would take less time . |
20 | ‘ Do n't ask me , Benny , I know nothing . ’ |
21 | She married a man named Howie , of whom I know nothing except that he was rich ; there are several children , and then after his death she married Dr Heatherton , who was a widower with children also . |
22 | I know nothing of the movement , I have no guilty secrets to reveal . ’ |
23 | Not yet twenty and I know nothing about babies myself . ’ |
24 | The genial mayor , Monsieur Gerard Thibaut , met our questions with blank bewilderment : ‘ I know nothing about a picture of the Fallen Madonna hidden in a Bratwurst sausage , ’ he said . |
25 | Deputy editor Jonathan Fenby said : ‘ I know nothing of this . |
26 | About the evolution of the human being I know nothing that is not obvious just by looking at me . |
27 | ‘ I know nothing about the tenants . |
28 | Trouble is , I know nothing about explosives . |
29 | I know nothing about mines . ’ |
30 | I know how to build those damned weapons but I know nothing about those fancy triggering devices . ’ |