Example sentences of "because [pers pn] [verb] [not/n't] know [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't do this crossword because I do n't know any American poets . |
| 2 | ‘ You interest me , Frank , because I did n't know that at all . ’ |
| 3 | I had the balls to do it because I did n't know any better . |
| 4 | Leee Childers : ‘ In America , we 'd go to the record companies and make outrageous demands at RCA because we did n't know any better . |
| 5 | But it was also great , because we did n't know any different , so we never missed anything . |
| 6 | Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see . |
| 7 | There were no games , partly because they did n't know any , partly because all five were united , in this if in nothing else , in the belief that dice , cards , charades , were a frivolous waste of time . |
| 8 | But I think all the silliness is all part of actually adjusting to the condom , and something to do with the embarrassment that because they do n't know enough about it they , they do n't want to be er , seen to be silly |
| 9 | Many of the difficulties children get into as they begin to explore the immediate environment of their home happen because they do not know enough to realize what will occur if they , for example , put their hands in a rose bush or pick up a shining splinter of glass . |
| 10 | And at that point he made his chair tip over because he did n't know any either . |
| 11 | This must be because he did not know any observations of it : Darwin was interested by every possible form of moral behaviour in animals , and if he had known of restrained fighting , he would have written about it . |