Example sentences of "[pron] without knowing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before Lesley met Alan , she had been to a party where she got drunk and ended up sleeping with someone without knowing it . |
| 2 | They 're teaching me something without knowing they 're doing it . |
| 3 | Perhaps the most controversial question concerning English intonation is what its function is ; pedagogically speaking , this is a very important question , since one would not wish to devote time to teaching something without knowing what its value was likely to be . |
| 4 | The bills came on the morning of the burial , and he suddenly drew them from his pocket during the service , opening them without knowing what he was doing . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's the skill you 've got that really counts — the ability not to know things , or to know them without knowing that you know them . |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose I had a sort of unfettered adoration for her without knowing it . |
| 7 | You 've just said that you took one look at Lotta and wanted her without knowing a thing about her , and now you 're telling me exactly the same thing . |
| 8 | But still he did n't smile , and later I wondered if perhaps we 'd hit it without knowing it . |
| 9 | This is the easiest knot to learn and you 've probably been tying it without knowing its name . |
| 10 | Yeah or I mean which accents do you think people sound more intelligent when they 've got I mean , it 's not that 's heavily match- guised cos in match guised people are doing it without knowing what they 're doing . |
| 11 | Of course you want to see increased road safety , we 're all concerned about it as residents and parents but just throw in one million pounds at it without knowing the effectiveness of it , I think is irresponsible at this stage . |
| 12 | Oh nineteen sixties we , we introduced that with the blessing of the ambulance people as well , it was n't done without careful consideration , because erm we did n't want people to , to just erm introduce it without knowing what we were doing and ever since we used it it 's been a great blessing . |
| 13 | Everyone said I was playing when I got out the clay or plasticine , but really I was training myself without knowing it . |