Example sentences of "[verb] n't know any " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head of Lima 's anti-rabies clinic said the bats normally feasted on animals but , in their rabid state , they probably did n't know any better . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Headmaster did n't know any of the details but reassured him it would be alright . |
| 4 | I was aware of its existence , but had n't read it and did n't know any more about it than that it was about to become law . |
| 5 | Henry did n't know any unemployed people . |
| 6 | And now she knew that Uncle Knacker did n't know any more than she did , and she was on her own because her parents could n't afford expensive lessons or a top-class pony . |
| 7 | They had their dignity to consider and Mr Tait , the factor , did n't know any better , and had little dignity , but Liam should have sung . |
| 8 | Oh no , not at all , I had received help from the librarian before , but I did n't know any more for that … about the right techniques and so on . |
| 9 | I had the balls to do it because I did n't know any better . |
| 10 | I did n't know any colonels . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't know any of them before yesterday . |
| 12 | So she thought he did n't know any history , did she ? |
| 13 | No , we did n't know any of that . |
| 14 | In fact they did n't know any , except for Benny . |
| 15 | I did n't know any more than you , but curiosity was killing this cat , and I wanted their measurements . |
| 16 | She did n't know any of the names ; she smiled and shook hands and was passed from one to the other like a parcel . |
| 17 | I did n't know any boys , except those I met through my sisters , and they seemed to me to be vain , impolite and almost totally inarticulate . |
| 18 | But it was also great , because we did n't know any different , so we never missed anything . |
| 19 | And at that point he made his chair tip over because he did n't know any either . |
| 20 | I did n't know any . |
| 21 | And he still did n't know any details of Evelyn 's job with INCUBUS . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But Berndt did n't know any of the layers of discomfort he was pressing on his new trainee . |
| 24 | ’ I did n't know any better . |
| 25 | I was disillusioned with all the experts who 'd been predicting one thing or another ; they obviously did n't know any more than anybody else . |
| 26 | I did n't know any details , but a month or so ago I had a row with my uncle and he said then that I must n't count on anything from him ; if I did I 'd be disappointed . ’ |
| 27 | Of course she knew the eyes had already assessed , swiftly categorising her purely on this evening 's evidence : a silly , empty-headed girl who did n't know any better . |
| 28 | If she did n't know any better , she would have said she 'd had too much to drink , but apart from that first glass of punch , which she 'd never finished , and then Luke 's celebratory champagne , she had n't touched alcohol all evening . |
| 29 | " And the beauty of it , " he says now over a cold beer in a Manhattan restaurant , " was that I did n't know any better . |
| 30 | By the time we got her address and tracked her down to some miserable tower block in Hackney , discovered she did n't know any English and found someone who could speak Gujarati , it was late afternoon . ’ |