Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [not/n't] [adv] know " in BNC.

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1 She thought sadly of all the things about his war that Johnny did not yet know .
2 They had to stop the machines because everybody was laughing see with Tara on the floor so Ann did n't even know she 'd fallen off the chair .
3 Often , the manufacturers do not even know to what extent their equipment will stand up to RFI .
4 Chirac did n't even know where to go while Le Barre was speaking on an empty white platform with no chairs , and when it was his turn to speak he had no chance of a good clean start because he had to shake hands with Le Barre as they passed on the stairs .
5 One version circulating at the Palace is that Her Majesty realised that Her Other Majesty did n't yet know the result when she arrived for their weekly get-together .
6 The guys running the club do n't really know what they 're doing .
7 In short , the administration does not actually know why it wants a space station .
8 Maggie did n't quite know what to say and he nodded again .
9 And though Tutilo did not yet know what lay in store for him , nevertheless he could not be quite sure this apparently joyous return would be the end of it .
10 Bourne did not quite know what to make of these tender morsels of nostalgic recollection but , believing them to be some sort of test , he held his peace , making no comment .
11 Wondering whether English was still taught in schools , she commented on her 114th birthday : ‘ Many of the people I hear on the telephone do n't even know how to speak the language properly . ’
12 And as , as we said before , erm , many of the , erm people who lived in the poorer parts of erm the country , whether in urban or rural En erm England did n't really know about basic nutrition and and health I mean you just ate what was available but you did n't know why and so the government started this campaign to introduce you know knowledge about diet and how important it was .
13 When Vietnam and Watergate were over things simmered down in society and the urgency sort of fell out of film making ; the directors did n't quite know where they were , they had no targets .
14 Rory did n't really know Fergus Urvill very well ; although he did sometimes visit Lochgair , he spoke differently — posher — and seemed to spend a lot of his time shooting at birds and animals with other rich people .
15 Bet the poor lad did n't even know it was there .
16 Applicants do not necessarily know the relative lengths of queues or their chances of obtaining housing in one sub-district rather than another .
17 Marshall does n't quite know what to do with Geena Davis ' study in female renunciation as star player Dottie , a woman who gives up baseball to be a good wife .
18 Families do n't generally know .
19 European jurors know little about Sri Lankans , while Sinhalese and Tamil jurors did not always know English well enough to understand the judge .
20 Nothing so far has disproved the contention that the classical Greeks did not even know the name of the Jews .
21 Delaney did n't really know .
22 ‘ The Ukrainians do n't really know much about Britain , but I 'm going to serve champagne and two kinds of caviar so I expect we 'll have a good time , ’ Gladstone told me over a crackling telephone line shortly before the party began .
23 McAllister did not quite know how to answer him , and said slowly , ‘ I suppose that at some time or other we all sell ourselves for something . ’
24 It was no wonder that in the late Seventies , when Americans were beginning to query whether they were carrying out too many coronary by-passes , Britain 's health correspondents were reporting that many people did not even know such life savers existed .
25 Sometimes people did not even know their neighbours .
26 The money sloshing around allowed new wave companies to agglomerate , service the raiders and beneficiaries of Big Bang and create demands which people did n't even know they had .
27 People did n't even know most other people 's names let alone their dogs ' .
28 Because a lot of people did n't even know what they were entitled to .
29 If you kept that covered up , most people did n't even know it was there . ’
30 Most people did n't even know the nature of scientific explanation and things like that .
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