Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] n't know [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Dot did n't know what a banana tasted like , though she 'd heard Mrs Parvis talk about them often enough .
2 Dot did n't know what her convalescence was .
3 Dot did n't know what fasting was .
4 Dot did n't know what a rigger was .
5 Dot did n't know what an asylum was .
6 Crisis Line say many who need help do n't know it ; and it 's the family that suffers .
7 Half the other people on the interviewing committee did n't know what it was .
8 Course then he finished , they finished dredging at night on , at nineteen thirty two cos they said it was costing too much the did and erm they were building some new cranes down there , so I said to my father , and he was very friendly with the Harbourmaster , he said erm was there any chance of getting one of them cranes so when he went and saw the Harbourmaster he said no he said the boy do n't know nothing about electricity either so he said no nor did no other buggers he said they did n't know anything about it so he got the job .
9 well I mean we had one girl did n't know what she was going about , but , you know , women do n't have all the work to do in the house and her dad helps at weekends and I said well who made the decision in the first place to do what
10 ‘ The girl did n't know I was in my room when she was changing the linen .
11 cos Chris off , so the apprentice girl did n't know anything .
12 In an intensely competitive world , if any team-member does n't know what contribution to profit he or she should make , the probability is that profit will not be achieved .
13 The old fool does n't know what he 's talking about . ’
14 er , they were meeting and the lad who was supposed to be at the meeting did n't know what they 'd come to decide on .
15 Obviously these privately owned buses hold no truck with The Knowledge , because our lad did n't know his St Pancreas from his Bell-Bow .
16 People coming from outside town do n't know what 's going on so they 're just getting booked .
17 Papa did n't know what to do , and then he got talking to some of his cronies , and he decided on a Grand Scheme .
18 He died so quickly that Viktor did n't know he 'd gone .
19 ‘ My husband does n't know I 'm here . ’
20 Your body does n't know what 's happening to it , that 's all . ’
21 Now that NeXT Inc has joined the Object Management Group , it 's threatening to submit its technology for consideration — only OMG does n't know what technology NeXT means .
22 The wife did n't know what to make of Yvonne at all .
23 Little Turtle did n't know what he was talking about .
24 The wife does n't know it , so she passes it on to her husband .
25 So my father did n't know what to do , because he 'd only just started on his own , so he was tight for money as well was n't he .
26 His face had been battered so badly , his father did n't know it was his own son until he squeezed his hand and muttered ’ Dad . ’
27 The jeweller did n't know what it was my father showed him .
28 She 'd collected her wedding dress , and it was n't what she wanted ; it did n't fit properly , and the woman in Drogheda who had made it had gone away on holiday , and her assistant did n't know anything about it , and was n't a seamstress , so now what the hell was she supposed to do ?
29 They do n't have as much to do with you , I mean my branch manager does n't know what division he 's in .
30 Mr Ouk spoke with The Art Newspaper about the cultural catastrophe he and his country has endured : ‘ The Khmer Rouge does n't know what art is ’ , he said , referring to the murderous regime whose Maoist ‘ agrarian revolution ’ left more than a million Cambodians dead , and threatened to eradicate the nation 's very identity .
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