Example sentences of "not know [Wh det] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years these agencies operated free of any congressional oversight and , while many members of Congress clearly preferred not to know what they were doing , any attempts that were made to find out were firmly rebuffed . |
| 2 | Thus contracts are not generally binding on the following people : persons who at the time of making the contract were either minors , or so insane or drunk as not to know what they were doing . |
| 3 | Yes , I find it a lot easier actually not to know what they 've done , when you start work there you tend to come over these cases , which to do |
| 4 | As she ate Maltesers from the box on her knee , apparently engrossed in the antics of Mickey Mouse , Donald Duck or pluto her left hand seemed not to know what her right was doing . |
| 5 | If I meet my young son from school , laughing with his friends and waving to me and the dog , who wags its tail and barks in return , should I be supposed not to know what I am talking about if I pronounce them both to be conscious ? |
| 6 | She pretended not to know what he was referring to but he would not be fooled . |
| 7 | He thought she was too sophisticated not to know what she had there , but he was surprised all the same . |
| 8 | You ca n't imagine what it 's like not to know what it is to meet an attractive person who 's also attracted to you , can you ? |
| 9 | She said she had held the document back for so long because she was afraid it would re-open old wounds for my mother and because she felt sure it was better for us not to know what it contained . ’ |
| 10 | So I was determined to show them I could take a joke and the next time a big stork went over I pretended not to know what it was called and asked my girl . |
| 11 | Impossible to judge whether she knew or did not know whatever it was that Francis had been told , and there was nothing to be gained by turning the screw too hard . |
| 12 | I frankly do not know which I prefer , wrote Harsnet . |
| 13 | ‘ Do you not know what we are going to do ? |
| 14 | For example , a horse that will not do something we may call ‘ stubborn ’ or ‘ pig-headed ’ , when in fact it does not know what we want . |
| 15 | As billetees , we lived en famille with people we had never previously met , who did not want our company , and who did not know what we were doing in their towns . |
| 16 | If we do not know what we believe and can not agree on what we believe , then is it not better to wait until we can and do . |
| 17 | We do not know what we may encounter , however , and thus our duty requires us to ensure our success by using our knowledge to build a better ship . |
| 18 | " We are agreed on these points — I do not know what we have been arguing about . " |
| 19 | ‘ You are a slave-driver , Felipe , and you do not know what we talk about ! ’ |
| 20 | If we do not know what we have committed ourselves to in the GATT round , it is difficult to know how to decide the reforms . |
| 21 | We can not know what we shall be discussing next year or the year after at this time . |
| 22 | They do not know what we are getting up to , what we are saying about-them . |
| 23 | Many wives did not know what their husbands earned — as many as one-third of those surveyed in Middlesbrough in 1907 — and the vast majority of husbands kept back a proportion of their income for their own use . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ We have very good arguments to prove that we can not be held responsible for the actions of a few people who did not know what they were doing . |
| 25 | Those who afterwards blamed Lambeth 1958 for platitudes did not know what they were talking about . |
| 26 | When Yellow Bull visited his detained chief , Joseph told him , ‘ I do not know what they mean to do with me , but if they kill me , you must not kill the officer . |
| 27 | They will not know what they are going to do , and will probably end up doing nothing . |
| 28 | One witch said , ‘ It is a powerful tool in the occult and we would also warn anybody who does not know what they are doing to stay well clear of the ouija . ’ |
| 29 | Again , she did not know what they were . |
| 30 | Father , forgive them ; they do not know what they are doing ( Luke 23:34 ) . |