Example sentences of "not know the [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm I bought a car actually over at Kidlington , and I did not know the amount of premium I was paying . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , we do not know the time of year when Lady Godiva is supposed to have ridden out . |
| 3 | In this regard criminal law shares a problem with contract law , which adopts the ambivalent posture of holding both that the devil himself can not know the mind of man and that the state of a man 's mind is as much a question of fact as is the state of his digestion . |
| 4 | Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters ; and , as likely as not , he is run into Parliament . ’ |
| 5 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |
| 6 | You do n't know the threshold of pain in animals do you ? |
| 7 | ‘ You do n't know the way to town . ’ |
| 8 | Erm tt er when it came to the children erm and he did n't know the date of birth erm you should 've at least got the ages of them |
| 9 | Azor had been well trained and , even if she did n't know the words of command in Czech , he was an intelligent animal and responded to her tone of voice every time . |
| 10 | That Major still backs Mellor and believes he did nothing untoward arouses suspicions that he does n't know the difference between right and wrong . |
| 11 | Willi did n't know the meaning of restraint , not in any aspect of his life . |
| 12 | ‘ We do n't know the meaning of surrender , ’ said Grimma . |
| 13 | I 'm afraid you 'll have to wake up to the fact that that kind of man from that kind of a family would n't know the meaning of love . ’ |
| 14 | Men like Luke Hunter did n't know the meaning of permanence — or fidelity . |