Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [verb] [adv] [adv] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 2 | The sheets smelt of Croisset — that place which I did not yet know would be forbidden to me ; there was a petal between two of my toes , and a thin scratch down the inside of my right thigh . |
| 3 | " There was one very difficult principle that we were up against which I did not really know about to start with … that in accordance with the general surrender everyone was supposed to surrender to the Allied Army against whom they had been fighting . |
| 4 | I lost , of course , hardly surprising since the elections were carved up by the various political groups , most of which I did n't even know existed . |
| 5 | Th there is erm a study going on to do with something called the British National Corpus which I do n't quite know what that 's about but they they want er samples of the sort of things that lecturers do in lecture theatres . |
| 6 | We have oil in the North Sea which we are just wasting , we have gas which we get from the North Sea which we do n't quite know what to do with it . |
| 7 | I would leave this drab and unhappy employment in St Andrew 's House — for what I did not yet know . |
| 8 | So information sources can stand in for what we do not automatically know . |
| 9 | What we do not yet know is how women 's changing opportunities for paid work have affected their relative risk of poverty . |
| 10 | It is concerned with telling you as much about what we do n't yet know as about what we do know . |