Example sentences of "if [pron] do n't know [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if I do n't know where I am , I like to know that . |
| 2 | If I do n't know where the right place is , I ca n't very well can I ? |
| 3 | So and he will ask questions and if I do n't know how to answer them I 'll have |
| 4 | But if I did n't know where I was , what did I mean by the word ? |
| 5 | ‘ If I did n't know just how much you like your job I might actually think you were looking for an escape from it . ’ |
| 6 | As he worked , Harry muttered , ‘ If I did n't know better , I 'd say that was your Mr Butler on the bed there . ’ |
| 7 | If I did n't know better , I 'd say Bolan and Starr were obviously partaking a bit too copiously at this time . |
| 8 | ‘ On returning , I mentioned to Ronnie that if I did n't know better — having miscarried only five weeks before — I 'd think I was pregnant , ’ remembers Allison . |
| 9 | If I did n't know better I 'd think there was a man on the horizon . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I could almost think she were real if I did n't know better , but unfortunately for you and your tales my detective is an expert . |
| 11 | If I did n't know better I 'd think he was trying to be as diplomatic possible in order to keep himself in line for the England job . |
| 12 | ‘ If I did n't know better , I might almost believe you . ’ |
| 13 | For an instant she told herself she had imagined the almost feral glint behind the long , dark lashes as Niall said casually , ‘ If I did n't know better , I might almost get the idea that you were jealous . ’ |
| 14 | He gave a cool laugh and drawled , ‘ Well , if I did n't know better , I 'd say you sounded jealous ! ’ |
| 15 | I wonder where my torch has gone , as if I did n't know like . |
| 16 | She could never face him at the party if she did n't know where she stood — did n't know whether or not he had rejected her apology or was prepared to be friendly . |
| 17 | If she did n't know better she 'd have said he 'd sabotaged her jeep and made it rain this way , just so he could enjoy some amusement at her expense ! |
| 18 | For , as the old Jewish proverb has it , ‘ if you do n't know where you are going , any road will take you there ’ . |
| 19 | Clearly defined aims and objectives will bring you the results you desire , and remember : if you do n't know where you are going , then how are you going to know when you have got there . |
| 20 | Would er th er , over here it was described as a , er er it 's still a maze out there if you do n't know where you 're going , would you agree ? |
| 21 | But if you do n't know where it 's come from it really is n't as much use . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , if you do n't know where he is , where is he ? ’ |
| 23 | And since there 's something like seven thousand Standesamter in West Germany alone , you can have quite a job looking somebody up if you do n't know where to start . |
| 24 | you can not talk about moving parcels around the country if you do n't know where the towns are . |
| 25 | And what I want then is to hold his hand in front of the television for several evenings a week , and if you do n't understand that , if you do n't know what that feeling is , if you do n't know why it 's like that then you know nothing , nothing , nothing . |
| 26 | There is an old adage which runs : ‘ If you do n't know why you are pruning , do n't prune ’ . |
| 27 | Initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
| 28 | Bill Gates has firmed up prices for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT operating system , but the first ships date has moved off into the future again , and ‘ no later than ’ August 1 is the new target : according to Gates , in comments reported in PC Week , large corporate customers looking to upgrade from Windows 3 to NT will be able to do so for less than $100 per desktop — the upgrade price for Windows users will be $300 , which translates to $180 ‘ on the street ’ and less than ‘ $100 per system ’ after deep volume discounts , Gates told a meeting of the Corporate Association of Microcomputer Professionals in Chicago ; OS/2 users will be offered ‘ extremely low prices ; ’ NT 's suggested retail price for new — desktop — users will be $500 ; more bad news is that memory requirements are continuing to soar — Gates last week recommended that NT users install 16Mb on their desktop machines , even though the documentation may specify 12Mb — and no more than about 10% of 80486 machines have 16Mb ; servers could require more than 16Mb , he added ; initial NT buyers will need to have specific applications in mind for it — ‘ If you do n't know why you want NT , you probably do n't want NT , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 30 | Nine man 's morris is just erm one of the games that is easy for them to devise if yo , if you want me to teach you how to play it , if you do n't know already I will . |