Example sentences of "[conj] they did n't know [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The frogs could hear them although they did n't know what they meant or even what they were . |
| 2 | Although they did n't know their names at the time , they spotted Dominic Wetherby and the American boy , Lee Horan , going into the public bar , but no-one suggested that the two parties should join up . |
| 3 | The children Robert was attempting to teach were , although they did n't know it , the latest recruits to the mysterious section of English society known as the lower upper middle class . |
| 4 | Too many of us now say that they did n't know what was going on , and that they were long opposed to what was happening . |
| 5 | They looked me over , said that they did n't know what it was and sent me home . |
| 6 | She said the girls they just stood there and they did n't know what to say to him . |
| 7 | I named a duck I had this letter come no no no no , I had this letter come , right , and it said now they 've got this duck and they did n't know what to call it and so Gemma said well I think erm Eileen , Auntie Eileen ought to name it so I , I was asked to name this duck . |
| 8 | and they did n't know which one to watch there was two on at the same time so they picked one and she said if we had a video she said we could be taping the other one and he said how can you do that ? |
| 9 | and they did n't know I was there . |
| 10 | It 's difficult to judge the especially when the person that you for by someone just popping round and picking something up and they stay for ages , and they did n't know I was taping and then something clicked up in the middle of it . |
| 11 | Crosby in 1981 was a classic example : the voters lost a man they had known for thirty years and they did n't know who to vote for instead . |
| 12 | Mother , father and two children , even the dog was dead , and they did n't know who killed them . |
| 13 | Even if they did n't know her exact address , they never answered the little notes she sent care of the Company . |
| 14 | When he waved or smiled at those he knew , they turned away , as if they did n't know him . |
| 15 | It was n't as if they did n't know they were taking a risk — during the fifties and sixties debates raged in the press about highrise housing , with its defenders calling opposition simply prejudice . |
| 16 | And she resisted finding out , in the way that other girls she had known kept themselves in deliberate ignorance of such things as impregnation , in the unarticulated hope that if they did n't know what it was it could n't happen to them . |
| 17 | If they did n't know who I was in Scotland before , they will start to know now . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Unless they did n't know who … |
| 19 | But they did n't know I was leaving . |
| 20 | I hired my boat on Faarsay — that 's a little island south of Mull — and they 'd heard about Mrs Hamilton , but they did n't know my folks , so no one told me our house was let . ’ |
| 21 | They had left her at school as long as they could , because they did n't know what to do with her ; but now she was to take this course and later get a job on a newspaper . |
| 22 | Some friends who have lost their virginity did so because they did n't know what was going on . |
| 23 | Much to the amusement of two American girls who stayed with us because they did n't know what this phrase was I mean they could n't have sort it out in the first place of what it meant . |
| 24 | The problem with many of the parents we interviewed of primary school children was that they did n't really know what their children were doing at school a lot of the time and , because they did n't know what they were doing , they sort of feared that it , they were n't doing anything or that what they were doing was not actual work , what they remembered as work . |
| 25 | When Business Age magazine published their list of the richest women in Britain this week , they left Diana 's name off it — because they did n't know she had any dosh of her own . |
| 26 | Why was it all women hated her so , even when they did n't know her ? |