Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] not know " in BNC.

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1 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 — ’
2 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 .
3 She says she 's a bit of a philistine and does n't know much about rowing , but hopes to find out .
4 and tennis coaching and do n't know what else he did do .
5 Me and Pam bet the same horse and did n't know , and we had a ten to one winner !
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 . ’
10 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 ?
11 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 .
12 They have earned their freedom and do n't know how to spend it .
13 ‘ 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 .
14 It explained how he could n't find switches and did n't know the layout very well .
15 I had an awful pain in my chest and did not know whether it was a coronary or indigestion .
16 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 .
17 So it 's not as if we 're having breathing and did n't know what to do ! were n't it ?
18 Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep and does n't know where to find them , leave them alone
19 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
20 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
21 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 .
22 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 ) .
23 It 's just that when you first hear a record and do n't know how to make one , you think it 's too hard until you actually meet somebody who can do it , ’ offers Tony .
24 I was white , pregnant and in Jamaica and did n't know how to respond .
25 I have known gardens where the roses never had a moment 's fungicidal attention and did n't know what mildew was , and there have been others where the roses received every care and attention , and each year the place looked like a flour mill .
26 Staff at the Maison Blanche hospital found that although Danielle seems to be a deaf-mute , she is not familiar with hearing aids and does n't know how to lip-read .
27 Staff at the Maison Blanche hospital found that although Danielle seems to be a deaf-mute , she is not familiar with hearing aids and does n't know how to lip-read .
28 Mr Goodwin did not see the file and does not know if his source had access to the file .
29 The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it .
30 The new pleading , so far as relevant to the claim against the building society , constituted ( i ) a plea of non est factum based on the proposition that Mrs. Steed did not know she had been appointed attorney and did not know she was signing a transfer of the property ; ( ii ) a plea that the transaction effected by the transfer was not a sale and was not within the power conferred by the power of attorney .
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