Example sentences of "[noun pl] did n't know [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to help with sticking the the er money onto the well this used to take about , you know , an hour all these kids did n't know what two pence was , did n't know what twenty pence was and ten pence and fifty pence and then we , they were in go about groups of seven and we get all this done then it would be assembly , then it 'll be games and then that 'll be it for the whole morning ! |
| 2 | the shopkeepers did n't know what to do with theirself . |
| 3 | Her mother had given herself the answer to her question : girls these days did n't know what they wanted . |
| 4 | He was under the impression the dealers did n't know what he was doing . |
| 5 | ‘ I thought you colonials did n't know what soap was for … ’ |
| 6 | The Sonar and Radar pioneers did n't know it then , but all the world now knows that bats , or rather natural selection working on bats , had perfected the system tens of millions of years earlier , and their " radar " achieves feats of detection and navigation that would strike an engineer dumb with admiration . |
| 7 | Sometimes , if he thought one of the girls did n't know what he was doing , he 'd go into a long explanation of why he had n't actually tasted the stuff . |
| 8 | Now the the girls did n't know it was there and it 's a good job that they were n't talking about him or talking about anybody . |
| 9 | In interview , the head of science offered these illuminating insights into the way the library project had stimulated book awareness and book selection among staff in his department : A lot of the time teachers did n't know what was available and said " The science shelf is over there " , but they had n't actually looked at the titles of the books before … they were quite pleasantly surprised . |
| 10 | Sometimes it felt like an anti-climax , and his friends did n't know what to do with him . |
| 11 | The Brownies did n't know it , but he had asked Brown Owl to marry him . |
| 12 | Some of the men did n't know they 'd been out exercising . |
| 13 | The Bees did n't know who to mark as United switched their play and their players to totally confuse them with classy running that carried the hallmarks of good coaching . |
| 14 | Of course the police did n't know what it was : they threw it in the pig-bin . |
| 15 | Possibly if they did tell you something then it was likely to be made up because children did n't know it was wrong to lie . |
| 16 | The bemused Parisians did n't know what the fuck we were on about when we asked for the ‘ Adidas Centre ’ in several differing French accents . |
| 17 | ‘ But I think the way we played at Leeds he was something of a luxury sometimes — there were times when even his team mates did n't know what he woeld do next ’ ‘ It 's different at Scumchester United where they really do play through him — AND OF COURSE HE 'S ALSO SURROUNDED BY BETTER PLAYERS ’ … |
| 18 | ‘ My students did n't know what phrasal verbs were until they discovered Streamline Directions Workbook ! ’ |
| 19 | He or she invents a product which consumers did n't know they wanted until it is made available , manufactures it with the assistance of purveyors of risk capital known as publishers , and sells it in competition with makers of marginally differentiated products of the same kind . |