Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] know the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone in the whole marine department just threw up their hands in horror and told me I was crazy , I did n't know the first thing about ships , the whole marine fleet would fall apart . |
| 2 | He had been told that he did n't know the first thing about it , that the young were all the same , destructive and careless , that Mrs Irving set a value on her privacy . |
| 3 | She did n't know the first thing about him , after all . |
| 4 | And as I had this urge to correct manuscripts as I went along , and could n't read his handwriting , and did n't know the first thing about Roman Britain , you can imagine he felt obliged to educate me . |
| 5 | What was she doing , anyway , going out with a man she did n't know the first thing about ? |
| 6 | ‘ He did n't know the first thing about you , did he ? ’ |
| 7 | Only then did she realise that , for all she had been in his company for a total of several hours now , she still did n't know the first thing about him . |