Example sentences of "do [not/n't] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | New children are being put at risk every day because many care workers still do not know how to protect people from HIV . |
| 2 | We do not know her name , though it is unlikely that the sculptor did not have a model . |
| 3 | I frankly do not know which I prefer , wrote Harsnet . |
| 4 | I do not know if Alex used it to court his Mary — he must have used something — ‘ The joke was unconscious but crowing laughter came from the young men beside the whisky jar . |
| 5 | The lords in parliament , and in the courthouse and the castle , they do not know how we live — they know nothing about us , except that we will die for them , to protect their forts in India and in Scotland ’ — his voice sharpened suddenly , his arm swung round and pointed north and a gust of response rose out of the crowd — ‘ we have always been good at that , their demands can never be satisfied , regiments for the colonies , indentured servants and labourers for the plantations , they have scoured Scotland like a killing wind and the men have been whirled away in the blast of it . |
| 6 | Whether it was through actual injury or through falling foul of one of the debilitating illnesses ( such as trench fever ) , we do not know . |
| 7 | Whether the parents planted a cedar tree in honour of the occasion , as another custom dictated ( girls only got a pine tree ! ) we do not know , but we can rest assured that the salutation-prayer was made with particular relish for this first son of a first son : ‘ A boy is born into the world ; a blessing has come into the world . ’ |
| 8 | Even those who most strongly advocate their use as research tools would admit that we do not know exactly what neural processes generate them and that any particular fluctuation will be the result of a multiplicity of different kinds of changes occurring in several different and possibly independent systems . |
| 9 | I do not know how the customs people work these things out , but I have never paid import duties on these overseas postal purchases . |
| 10 | I do not know . |
| 11 | In defensive mood , and not with complete truth , Dostoevsky wrote to Katkov : ‘ I do not know and never have known either Nechaev or Ivanov , or the circumstances of the murder , except from the newspapers . |
| 12 | They do not know fear . |
| 13 | I do not know how they communicate with each other , but their organisation is formidable . |
| 14 | One minute a well-behaved group of us — writers , intellectuals and so forth — were contentedly watching Zelda Plum dancing with the chinchilla on her head while Ken the Australian Horse Player offered odds ( 'Six to four the rat , ’ he used to say , I do not know why , and on this particular evening the rat escaped and tripped up Robin Fox , London 's most distinguished theatrical agent , who fell on top of Wales 's friend , the actress Susan George ) and the next a squad of hooligans were pushing people around and conjuring a piece of pot from Mrs Mouse 's sewing basket . |
| 15 | If you do not know what a tree or shrub is , exercise clemency and give it a year 's grace to demonstrate its worth before you turn it over to the axeman . |
| 16 | ONE IN 50 Britons suffers from sugar diabetes and , despite 100 years of scientific study , we still do not know how it is caused . |
| 17 | Consequently there are several things they do not know . |
| 18 | we did translation , Xenophon , I do not know a word of it I do not think Greek alone makes me miserable , I am always miserable . |
| 19 | Frank said that he did not believe in God ; such a belief can not possibly be proved ; the good life is possible without it ; and the only faculty to judge is the reason , which tells us to say , we do not know . |
| 20 | We do not know what Eric Abbott said but he was Ramsey 's second superior at Lincoln Theological College and then his best man at the wedding . |
| 21 | This is grievous news , grievous not only for this and other universities but for the nation ; for it is a grave national misfortune to be governed by those who do not know what a university is and what distinguishes it from other institutions of learning and study , not to mention training . |
| 22 | I do not know much about gods ; but I think that the river |
| 23 | I do not know what the sensuality of a man is . |
| 24 | I do not know whether we dragons loved her or hated her ; her will was like iron , as fast clad as our scaled hides , but her heart was like a songbird in the morning and she was as lovely as the lilies of the field . |
| 25 | Whether it is the memory of ancient insecurities , or the real threat of new ones I do not know , but I decide to go back . |
| 26 | If you do not know they are there , or if you do not know where they are , you will miss them . |
| 27 | If you do not know they are there , or if you do not know where they are , you will miss them . |
| 28 | I do not know what to do and sneak looks at everyone else , while the ‘ real ’ campers pause to stare as we sit on Karrimats eating supper . |
| 29 | He is prepared to come to Britain and live with me here but I do not know if he will be allowed . |
| 30 | I have a car badge belonging to the 159 Motor Club but do not know what the club is , or was , and have been unable to find out . |