Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] n't know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they did n't know their names at the time , they spotted Dominic Wetherby and the American boy , Lee Horan , going into the public bar , but no-one suggested that the two parties should join up . |
| 2 | The frogs could hear them although they did n't know what they meant or even what they were . |
| 3 | The children Robert was attempting to teach were , although they did n't know it , the latest recruits to the mysterious section of English society known as the lower upper middle class . |
| 4 | I think Dickens heavily relies on coincidence though , and it is in fact an incredible coincidence that the main characters of the book mainly all turn out to be related to one another , although they do n't know it . |
| 5 | Too many of us now say that they did n't know what was going on , and that they were long opposed to what was happening . |
| 6 | We teachers need actually to say to the children that they are going to enjoy the work that day , that it will be interesting , and that they are going to know or be able to do things at the end of the day that they did n't know or were n't able to do before . |
| 7 | The unlimited liability aspect of Lloyd 's is impressed upon every name , so for a name to say after the event that they did n't know about it is a load of cobblers . ’ |
| 8 | They looked me over , said that they did n't know what it was and sent me home . |
| 9 | I got the impression that they did n't know each other all that well , that the marriage was fairly recent . ’ |
| 10 | It seemed so odd to think that they did n't know . |
| 11 | It was not that they did n't know about the brain . |
| 12 | But they also explained that they did n't know about the future . |
| 13 | ‘ The thing that surprised me most was that they did n't know how to make a quality tube at AISA and we showed them . ’ |
| 14 | Non-Christians ( if they are honest ) have to say that they do n't know how the world and life was made ; they 've got loads of ideas ( which they call ‘ theories ’ ) but they do not and can not KNOW . |
| 15 | The main reason for this is that they do n't know how to and probably neither do a lot of their English solicitors . |
| 16 | But the problem is that they may not be able to deal adequately with operating systems and computer environments that they do n't know and are not allowed to market ; especially given the financial position many of them are in . |
| 17 | But the problem is that they may not be able to deal adequately with operating systems and computer environments that they do n't know and are not allowed to market ; especially given the financial position many of them are in . |
| 18 | No one likes to be outsmarted , and the man who loses out once will be that much more aggressive and determined the next time , although others may react by refusing to deal with those that they do n't know and trust . |
| 19 | If you do n't know , the probability is that they do n't know either ( and someone will catch up on your lack of achievement later ) . |
| 20 | Anybody working with chemicals should know , they are very silly to work with a chemical that they do n't know what it could do , the first aid treatment , in fact , erm , anybody here work with chemicals ? |
| 21 | Few witnesses in court refuse ‘ to tell the truth , the whole truth and nothing but the truth ’ on the grounds that they do n't know what the truth is or how to tell it . |
| 22 | I think that they may be frightened to speak up and that they 're scared that if they say something that they do n't know , like a lot of them do n't know the facts , like today , in the same class as Janine across there , some of them did n't know even the very the pro , progression of the male pill or anything like that , and they did learn a few things but a again they never spoke up and they were n't interested , but I |
| 23 | these people ca n't say then w what our , that they do n't know what our intentions are . |
| 24 | Nobody can pretend for a minute that they do n't know what 's going on . |
| 25 | We have acquired the habit of assuming that they do n't know what they want , do n't want to decide anything about their own lives and have nothing to contribute . |
| 26 | Act the part and know you 're acting it — and that they do n't know . |
| 27 | They fear endless meetings and worry that they do n't know enough to join in . |
| 28 | How about if I said well the reason why they migrate is that they do n't know about urban unemployment , you know if , you know , it 's a lack of information problem . |
| 29 | Yeah , you 're told you 're going and we spend the first day overcoming barriers to the fact that they do n't know why they 're there , they 've just been sent and it 'll be good for you , you know this sort of stuff . |
| 30 | One is that the then Conservative group , and I think , by reflection the current Conservative groups , since everybody sitting here was here last year , do n't know enough about budgeting to set a budget for a county council , and it also tells us that they do n't know enough about managing a county council to manage even a budget that they have set . |