Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] [adv] know " in BNC.

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1 The most common response from 41% was ‘ no reply or do n't know ’ .
2 Perhaps it speaks to a part of our mind that does not know about self-control — a part that remembers the time when we were entirely in someone else 's power and they , in a certain sense , were in ours .
3 And anyway , even if we ask them , I mean , even if they think we can do something about it , though Christ knows what , I do n't want a lot of knowalls who have n't got any kids and do n't know the first thing about them telling us what to do with ours — ’
4 It is not as it may be interpreted a message of hope that the sun might still wake him but rather one of despair that even the sun is at a loss and does not know how to wake him .
5 She says she 's a bit of a philistine and does n't know much about rowing , but hopes to find out .
6 and tennis coaching and do n't know what else he did do .
7 Me and Pam bet the same horse and did n't know , and we had a ten to one winner !
8 He just collected animals but did n't know how to look after them .
9 I have a car badge belonging to the 159 Motor Club but do not know what the club is , or was , and have been unable to find out .
10 She wanted to make amends but did n't know how to .
11 The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town .
12 He 'd seen patients in calipers but did n't know how to do it himself .
13 The tornado aircraft was developed under a cost plus environment er contracting environment and erm at the time that was actually the most efficient an and probably the only practical way to do because the the risks inherent in having three partner companies that do n't know how the others work , getting together to build a single aircraft , were , were extremely high .
14 The most serious trouble was in Suffolk , in the cloth-manufacturing area of Lavenham and Sudbury , where the dukes of Norfolk and Suffolk claimed that they were faced with a body of 4,000 men , who alleged that they had no work and did not know how to get their living .
15 After a few days the household would be creeping around ‘ not to disturb Dad ’ who was sulking in his room bored to death with his family , and the children would be trying to comfort a depressed and weeping Mum who had so looked forward to her handsome popular brilliant husband 's return and did n't know what she had done wrong .
16 The Elves , who will never leave the material universe and do not know what happens to Men when they die , are embodiments of language-users for whom the breath-wind-spirit distinction would be meaningless .
17 I asked him why the hell he wanted me to stay the night when he was going out later , and he just shrugged his shoulders and said he was in a funny mood and did n't know what he was saying . ’
18 Was the vicious rumour that he had turned up late after a liquid lunch and did n't know what he was voting for true ?
19 10.30am and a waif-like girl trudges on stage to explain she 's lost her parents and does n't know what to do .
20 They have earned their freedom and do n't know how to spend it .
21 ‘ Doctors , who have never been taught medical entomology and do n't know what a mite is , would be far happier if asthma were caused by cigarette smoke , pollution , plant pollen or cat fur , but few cases actually are .
22 It explained how he could n't find switches and did n't know the layout very well .
23 I had an awful pain in my chest and did not know whether it was a coronary or indigestion .
24 Is it possible to arrange that they be given blanks and do n't know which are the blanks and which are the real , because otherwise there 's a risk after you 've done this the schools will suspect that they 're low , and therefore they will add a little on to their blank or something like that .
25 So it 's not as if we 're having breathing and did n't know what to do ! were n't it ?
26 Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep and does n't know where to find them , leave them alone
27 he , little Bo Peep had lost her sheep and did n't know where to find her , leave her alone , little Bo Peep had lost her sheep and did n't know where to find her , leave them alone and they 'll come home searching for them everywhere
28 he , little Bo Peep had lost her sheep and did n't know where to find her , leave her alone , little Bo Peep had lost her sheep and did n't know where to find her , leave them alone and they 'll come home searching for them everywhere
29 If I did not trust and live his fantasy image of myself I could no longer reach out to distorted splinters and did not know where to begin to look for myself .
30 I 'm not , and do n't know any people who are members of supporters clubs and do n't know if in fact , there are any perks ( e.g priority ofr tickets , discounts etc ) .
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