Example sentences of "[verb] n't know [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alice 's parents did n't know about toxic shock , and the fact it could be related to using a tampon , but also the parents of some other children , other women did n't know either . |
| 2 | No reasons were given as to the lack of information the social workers had gathered about the children ; why they did n't know about one child 's asthma , another 's forthcoming dental treatment , or that Jewish children might have special dietary requirements . |
| 3 | Furthermore , I never even hinted that Hartley did n't know about these tube factories in Czechoslovakia and China . |
| 4 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 5 | Olwen did n't know at that time that the commitment was soon to become twenty-four hours a day , seven days a week . |
| 6 | I did n't know at that time what the content of the exhibition was because Sarah who organised it all had to write to lots of people and arrange the loans and you know it is fairly recently that we discovered for example the tate would lend , their pictures because its very rare that they do , erm , and , so we thought the next best thing , when I discovered the change of dates would be to have slides of the pictures that Sue was using , but erm oh dear then wonderful that Sue was using a another book and this term allocated and I was n't able to get the slides she picked , it was my fault that they 're not on slide due to the amount of time that we had to do this . |
| 7 | And anyway he he was one of the candidates , but what I did n't know at that time there was a real feud between the women and the men . |
| 8 | He knew what it was — tank sediment kept getting into the fuel pipe that fed the generator — but short of a total drain and cleanout , he did n't know of any way to cure it . |
| 9 | She received no reply ; nor had she heard a word during the five years that had passed since , and she did n't know to this day if he was alive or dead , and she did n't care . |
| 10 | I 've talked to other people whose mothers came to naturopathy in the fifties , and it 's been explained as a way of eating posh for those who do n't know about Continental food . |
| 11 | ‘ The insurance sector , and indeed large areas of the financial sector , had never really focused on modern financial management — everyone working in the industry thinks they know about finance , and maybe they do , but they do n't know about financial control . ’ |
| 12 | Oh I do n't know about that guv . |
| 13 | I do n't know about next week yet , she 'll let me know |
| 14 | Was it a typing error , or is there something I do n't know about Italian publishing ? |
| 15 | How about if I said well the reason why they migrate is that they do n't know about urban unemployment , you know if , you know , it 's a lack of information problem . |
| 16 | The inspectors are aware that many people do n't know about this law so they will usually give just a warning to first offenders . |
| 17 | Ev well I do n't know about this year mind but every Christmas I worked there she never paid us double time for anything over Christmas , she was always bought us a present . |
| 18 | Yes , I do n't know about this class business . |
| 19 | They say , ‘ Do n't know about those neon lights , they 're sort of an acquired taste . |
| 20 | ‘ We will be billing Wimbledon for damage caused , although we do n't know at this stage how much it will all cost . |
| 21 | The force spokeswoman said : ‘ How it happened we do n't know at this stage . |
| 22 | It 's very difficult at this moment to say we 're not talking about finished stock you know , you 're gon na get fluctuations on product , but what worries me , I do n't know at this stage how many tonnes of bone meal we 've got stashed away somewhere or how many tonnes of compost maker we 've got stacked anywhere for use in the pre-pack . |
| 23 | Does it matter if they 're not erm , if they do n't know of each other 's existence ? |
| 24 | I do n't know of any boxing match that 's ever captured the interest of people and it was that night , course we never heard the result , not until we got to Egypt , you there was no wireless you see , you did n't know what was happening at all . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ I do n't know of any government that has actually falsified figures . |
| 26 | County Durham headteacher , Olwyn Gunn , a national executive member of the National Association of Schoolmasters and Union of Women Teachers , said : ‘ I really do n't know of any school where poverty is so bad that children are being treated like this . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We do n't know of any decorating plans at present , ’ says a spokesman . |
| 28 | I do n't know of any league penalty regarding players not turning up and not letting their opponents know in good time that they will not be playing . |
| 29 | ‘ I could n't spell , and I still do n't know to this day where a paragraph is meant to go . |
| 30 | You do n't know in this case you probably do know , that the personalities are the same . |