Example sentences of "[verb] n't know [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I can see you do n't know much about kids . ’
2 Aha , you see you do n't know this one do you
3 I did n't know much about it .
4 Philip did n't know much about driving but he thought that maybe she was in the wrong gear .
5 Lee did n't know much .
6 Doone did n't know much about marble , it appeared .
7 The trouble was , he thought , as he signed the paper , indecipherably , with his left hand , folded it and put it into his jacket pocket , he did n't know much about thallium poisoning , and even less about the making of lenses with a high refractive index .
8 Jack did n't know much about its history , just that it was a folly built by someone rich , but he had walked there many times with his camera , photographing the temple from all angles .
9 They tried to make the Social Work Department follow its guidelines , but some of the parents believed the social workers did n't know much about the document at all .
10 They did n't know much but they told you what they did know in the most cryptic way possible to whet your appetite and make you speculate .
11 She did n't know much about art before but there was an exhibition of my Old Masters going on at the Royal Academy and she saw that , and was very enthusiastic about it , especially the Holbein portrait of Henry VIII .
12 I knew that Emily and Anne wrote a lot about the country of Gondal , but I did n't know much about it .
13 Did n't know much theirselves , any more than these do today .
14 Did n't know much .
15 We and customs did n't know much at all till you phoned last night with the stories about the lorries and the baggage handlers at Gatwick . ’
16 ‘ We did n't know much about ticks , and when we got back to the BBC , we mentioned them to Michael Andrews , author of The Life that Lives on Man , who informed us that , on BCI , ticks carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever !
17 No I did n't know much about the glen at all But no nothing exciting enough to speak about .
18 While I had been in there there 'd been a day or two of beautiful weather which we did n't know much about inside , although there was one big window where we used to go and sit and have a smoke — the ones who were getting better — and you could see a big tree from there , so you sort of felt it must be nice outside , and the people who came in from outside were n't so muffled up .
19 He did n't know much about Islam but he was aware that being an imam was a bit like being a Vice-president for Life .
20 So I did n't know much about Dr. Favor .
21 Both admitted they they did n't know much about gardens .
22 Venables added he felt Sugar did n't know much about football .
23 Aye well of course at that time , in nineteen forty eight , I was detached I mean I I did n't know much about the management 's thinking , or their pronouncements .
24 He did n't know much about it .
25 I went through the proper process and the local MP er , er MP for Labour , did n't know much about it , and he referred it to the Postmaster General , I think it is , who took three months to answer .
26 At first I had visions of an OK Corral shoot-out at High Noon between dozens of different security forces who did n't know each other , but in fact we worked it out and there were no serious problems .
27 I got the impression that they did n't know each other all that well , that the marriage was fairly recent . ’
28 They did n't know each other very well , Defries guessed .
29 It should have brought us closer together , but instead it was like we did n't know each other any more , as if we were complete strangers .
30 It was an odd situation , since we did n't know each other well enough to be suddenly on such bad terms .
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