Example sentences of "know nothing about " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be hard if they are all in a group talking about people or things you know nothing about . |
| 2 | I should like to have found you something nicer to do , but I could n't let you go to people we know nothing about , and Mrs Andrews says that her cousin is sure to take care of you . |
| 3 | Oh well , there 's no harm done in this case , only you really must be more chary of giving invitations to people we know nothing about . ’ |
| 4 | If you are tempted in the direction of a fish you know nothing about , resist the impulse to buy it , until you know something about its requirements . |
| 5 | A little later , she glanced again at the book and said : ‘ A side of life I know nothing about . |
| 6 | ‘ Because we are playing with mysterious forces , my child , that we know nothing about . |
| 7 | She and I are going to clean Moor House from top to bottom , and make all the Christmas preparations that you know nothing about , being only a man . |
| 8 | ‘ I understand only that you intend to meddle in things you know nothing about , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ But , on the other hand , probably very few of them decide on a whim to spend their entire capital on a shop in a strange city in a country they know nothing about , without doing the most elementary homework . |
| 10 | And number three ; you 've signed your way into a deal you know nothing about and which has almost certainly sold you up the river . |
| 11 | I belong to a family I know nothing about and I do n't feel secure or grounded any longer . |
| 12 | Of course there could be plenty of others I know nothing about . ’ |
| 13 | We are cut off from their happy little world which we know nothing about and are unable to recognise much of our ways within theirs . |
| 14 | Go and find Donal , Ellie , she told herself sternly , instead of mooning over a man you know nothing about and probably would n't like if you did . |
| 15 | Something in his private life we know nothing about . ’ |
| 16 | I knew about them because of being at art college and I took Steve and Paul down with me and introduced them to a scene they knew nothing about . |
| 17 | If he spoke out , he was accused of poking his nose into matters he knew nothing about ; if he stayed out of it , he was accused of slacking and taking too many holidays . |
| 18 | It was a kind of lifestyle I knew nothing about , having always lived in South Kensington . |
| 19 | He had been a very successful amateur boxer , and sometimes would try to relieve our tension by sparring with me , teaching me basic moves of a sport I knew nothing about and instinctively detested . |
| 20 | There were reminders in every cupboard and corner of how much she was missing Charles and how worried she was about this expedition to a country she knew nothing about and which she hardly knew where to find on a map . |
| 21 | He went to fish a water he knew nothing about , and arrived in darkness . |
| 22 | SUPERFIT Huw O'Brien died from a heart disease he knew nothing about , a post mortem revealed yesterday . |
| 23 | Monty influenced Susannah and she became convinced that she was entitled to scientific opinions regarding a subject she knew nothing about . |
| 24 | The fraud was uncovered when William Wilby received a letter saying he was overdrawn on an account he knew nothing about . |
| 25 | Allen told her to ramble on about astrology , a subject Lysette knew nothing about . |
| 26 | Dean 's parents spoke out angrily in the Mirror yesterday , after we had revealed the existence of the bug that they knew nothing about . |
| 27 | He had even spoken — interminably — at the famous meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science , held at Oxford in 1860 , when Huxley allegedly scored his victory over Bishop Wilberforce with the retort that he would rather have an ape for an ancestor than a man who used his privileged position to pronounce on matters he knew nothing about . |
| 28 | I understood that you might like me better if I had experience , if I did n't have opinions about things I knew nothing about . … ’ |
| 29 | This was considered serious enough by the Keraing to have supplied Tandri with the cost of a new mast which he had promised to have cut from the forest of Bouton , an island we knew nothing about on the south-east of Celebes , a two-day sail across the Gulf of Palopo . |
| 30 | Pointing her finger at the misplaced moral fervour of the WSPU and the LNA , she claimed that these ‘ dabblers in debauchery ’ had set middle-class women on the rampage against an evil they knew nothing about . |