Example sentences of "did [not/n't] know [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The captain did not know what the craft was carrying , though that was not unusual , and the line was under contract partly for its discretion . |
| 2 | It 's no excuse that the salesman did not know what the customer planned to do with the recorder , even if it is labelled with a warning about not taping copyright records or films . |
| 3 | She did not know what the message was : Lee in this state was no longer a lovelorn friend but a trauma . |
| 4 | At first Dinah did not understand ; the way he talked was strange to her , and in any case she did not know what the term meant . |
| 5 | Geoffrey Robertson , QC for Mr Henderson , told the judge after the acquittals : ‘ The prosecution was brought by one hand of the Government which did not know what the other hand was doing . ’ |
| 6 | In the 1980S , as the communications industries multiplied and expanded , and the number of policy-actors and centres of decision ( local and regional as well as national ( proliferated , it often appeared that the right hand did not know what the left was doing . |
| 7 | She did not know what the matter was but knew instinctively that this was the right thing to do . |
| 8 | He could not interpret the hand gestures and did not know what the offworlder was thinking . |
| 9 | We did not know what the future might hold and had to face the possibility that we may not see each other again . |
| 10 | The institutions did not know what the criteria or standards were , and the process of validation normally meant two or three visits to the institution — with the first visit being a learning process for the institution , to hear what the process was all about . |
| 11 | Out popped a very strange gentleman from this aircraft that I noticed had American markings , but I still did not know what the aircraft was , I had a vague idea but I was not sure . |
| 12 | Mr Ruddy said he did not know what the two were doing . |
| 13 | Though he did not know it the San Antonio had turned tail and was even now on her way back to Spain , ‘ bearing a cargo of falsehood against Magellan ’ . |
| 14 | We did n't know what the risk factors were . |
| 15 | He did n't know what the medals were for . |
| 16 | The bemused Parisians did n't know what the fuck we were on about when we asked for the ‘ Adidas Centre ’ in several differing French accents . |
| 17 | It was also a lack of knowledge — 98 per cent of the people did n't know what the arguments were really about . |
| 18 | He said he did n't know what the UK operation would look like after the restructuring but said most resources would be concentrated in Switzerland : ‘ support and marketing is here , so there 's not much point in having it in the UK too . ’ |
| 19 | I did n't know what the two of yer was talkin' about , did I ? ’ he growled . |
| 20 | " I got fed up of seeing people 1 knew getting dressed up and going to pubs or discos , because I could n't and I did n't know what the latest was — and round here that matters a lot , " said a nineteen-year-old Wigan woman with a child . |
| 21 | I did n't know what the hell was going on . |
| 22 | Like on this one , you did n't know what the resistance was exactly , but you worked it out , well it 's going to be less than , your first thought was add it together of course . |
| 23 | I did n't know what the hell was happening , and I certainly did n't know how to cope with it ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I could n't for the life of me remember the English name for this vehicle and certainly did n't know what the Russian name was , so I asked him what he would call it . ’ |
| 25 | Perhaps he did n't know what the hell was happening to him . |
| 26 | Chatterton pulled their legs slightly and said they had better be careful not to get on the wrong side of you again and Glastonbury did n't know what the hell anyone was talking about . |
| 27 | What a good talking point , people did n't know what the G M B was , did n't know what they actually truly stood for with all the publicity what we do , all the good work we do lately , locally . |
| 28 | As she said , ‘ The audience did n't know what the f — we were on about and it went on for simply ages , but Ken could be very indulgent with that sort of manic streak . ’ |
| 29 | The January meeting of this committee , we did n't know what the arrangements would be . |
| 30 | Each time I got back to Rocamar Peter would say , ‘ Well ? ’ and I would shrug and pretend I did n't know what the hell he was talking about . ’ |