Example sentences of "not [vb infin] where " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrie said , ‘ I 'll not stay where I 'm not wanted so you need n't think it ! ’ mimicking Hepzibah in a determined mood , and Albert laughed briefly . |
| 2 | Obviously the old bookmakers pitches could not stay where they were and had to be moved . |
| 3 | ‘ I have found that mere appeal to reason does not answer where prejudices are agelong and based on supposed religious authority . |
| 4 | Even so , navigation would be a problem — especially since you could not predict where you would arrive . |
| 5 | ‘ The White Rabbit had put on his spectacles , but he did not know where to start . |
| 6 | Ramsey 's own preferred subjects were literature versus science as making for happiness , modern democracy , and internationalism , in which he denounced American isolationism and had an imaginative picture of the American Middle West as a lot of boors who did not know where Europe was . |
| 7 | She did not know where he was now and she did not really care , but he had probably been the most influential person in her life : her handsome prince and Maggie 's father . |
| 8 | If you do not know they are there , or if you do not know where they are , you will miss them . |
| 9 | I do not know where they get these dogs . |
| 10 | Once we did not know where the Battlebus was going to stop during a tour of Suffolk until minutes before it arrived . |
| 11 | Asked about the possibility of economic difficulties , she was concerned about how they would manage : ‘ The new government does not know where to begin with the economy , which is in a shambles . |
| 12 | By now Endill did not know where he was . |
| 13 | No , he did not know where Maria was . |
| 14 | No , he did not know where he was . |
| 15 | In reply to yet another question from the impromptu baby-sitter , he said that he did not know where his wife was , but he did believe that poor Maria had left him . |
| 16 | ‘ I do not know where my wife is , I only wish I did , ’ Carter was replying to the constable 's question . |
| 17 | Nails did not know where it was . |
| 18 | If you really do not know where you were or what you were doing , begin by imagining the object itself . |
| 19 | Chemists will have to keep as narrow a watch on these minor elements as our astronomers do on the minor planets , or we shall not know where we are ’ . |
| 20 | Of course , you vary the cast at first , until you discover the hotspot , but if you have not noted each cast fairly precisely you will not know where the fish came from when you do catch one . |
| 21 | We did not know where he was going . |
| 22 | Even in your decisions , you find you are often in turmoil and do not know where to turn . |
| 23 | They had had medical attention since the beginning of the year and he did not know where to turn for a penny . |
| 24 | With the minimum of props and the only gesture being a raised paw , he asked for the money for a cup of coffee , guv , sported a patch over one eye concealing a wound sustained in the service of his country , at the same time dragging a wooden leg fitted during the retreat from Moscow while maintaining that he had a bitch and five pups to support and did not know where his next meal was coming from . |
| 25 | I really do not know where Mrs Fawcett found the energy to do what she did . |
| 26 | There are so many needs that without a priority structure we would not know where to begin or when to say ‘ no ’ . |
| 27 | The more complex partner gives the simpler nature too much space , so that he does not know where he belongs . |
| 28 | If I did not trust and live his fantasy image of myself I could no longer reach out to distorted splinters and did not know where to begin to look for myself . |
| 29 | They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach . |
| 30 | I do not know where Henry Green picked up the erroneous information that Ivy had been a governess , but thinking of some of her sibylline utterances it was tempting to imagine her as a royal and imperial governess at Thebes and Mycenae . |