Example sentences of "[vb past] n't know anything " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was obviously peeved that we 'd squared it with the music teacher while he did n't know anything about it . |
| 2 | She did n't know anything . |
| 3 | He did n't know anything about it . ’ |
| 4 | For 90 torpid minutes , one did n't know anything — or care about anything — and then the whole thing was unravelled in the most perfunctory fashion . |
| 5 | ‘ I told you I did n't know anything about … ’ |
| 6 | Jed was n't so sure , he did n't like the idea that the future was all decided already and he did n't know anything about it , but he indulged her , and the bloodstains remained , and grew . |
| 7 | He remembered taking her to school , it was after their mother died , Georgia would 've been seven , she did n't want to go , there were girls who tied her to trees , it was her accent or her looks , he could n't remember now , but he had to take her because he 'd promised Dad , Dad who did n't know anything , the scratches on her legs were brambles , the bruises on her wrists were something else , he could n't remember now , how could they tell him the truth , how could they tell him anything when all he did was sit in dark rooms with his head in his hands , his head haunted by her ghost , and each dawn broke like the slow blow of a hammer . |
| 8 | Somebody told me it was handmade but I did n't know anything about it for years . |
| 9 | ‘ He did n't know anything about the guitar . |
| 10 | ‘ We were offered a gig at a festival in Denmark , which we did n't know anything about , turned up with the gear , and we were on after BB King , and before Robert Cray , plus Bob Dylan was on later on — definitely not the worst billing we 've ever been on . |
| 11 | Striker Gary Bull said : ‘ I did n't know anything about it until I saw it on Ceefax . ’ |
| 12 | He says : ‘ I did n't know anything about the posters and I 'm pretty upset . |
| 13 | She would n't like it if people knew what she was and she did n't know anything about them . |
| 14 | When I first decided to go into acting , my mother went mad — it was quite understandable , we did n't know anything about the acting profession . |
| 15 | I did n't know anything about the way some birds use warm air currents to help their flight . |
| 16 | ‘ I did n't know anything . |
| 17 | He did n't know anything about Profiles — Psychological Research Division . |
| 18 | I was my own boss for a start — the man I worked for left after about seven months , and the man who took over did n't know anything about it : I knew more about the job than he did , so I had to tell him what to do for the first six months … in fact he tried to get the job upgraded anyway . |
| 19 | Of course she did n't know anything and even if she did , she would die rather than say , but suppose he guessed she knew something ? |
| 20 | ‘ When I arrived I could n't speak a word of Spanish , did n't know anything about the photographic scene in Madrid and had never worked as a professional photographer before , so it was n't the easiest of situations to begin with . ’ |
| 21 | About three months before I finally , I was husband made me go to the doctor or go to the doctors for me and that 's when I realized it was depression I did n't know anything about it then . |
| 22 | My doctor did n't know anything about it . |
| 23 | So I went to the council , I did n't know anything about social security , even that there was such a thing , so I was given benefit and a hostel to stay in at Elephant and Castle . |
| 24 | I did n't know anything . |
| 25 | Now , after that , you was er taught all the parts of the waggons , and er this took quite a long while because we did n't know anything about them , and er where they all went and the parts they went . |
| 26 | And the whole process is made as simultaneously agonising and amazing as it could be — you labour to give birth , that 's the right word all right , and it 's about as ghastly as possible and then at the end there 's this absolutely wonderful feeling , that the conspiracy has never hinted at , when you hold it and see it and you suddenly realise there 's a whole new emotion you did n't know anything about . |
| 27 | ‘ She said she did n't know anything about it . ’ |
| 28 | Erm and the difference in appraisal between the groups of people that knew about the speaker before and those that did n't know anything , they say it is important to the similarity attraction . |
| 29 | ‘ We did n't know anything about America , but it felt right . |
| 30 | He looked nice , but she did n't know anything about him . |