Example sentences of "[coord] did n't know [pron] " in BNC.

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1 er we both met him to try and make a plea to him to try and change his views and it 's fair to say that he does n't know or did n't know what was going on in his own backyard and John Patten I feel is the same as is the rest of the M P's in the Oxfordshire area .
2 I was nearly in tears and did n't know what to do with it .
3 ‘ I became really sick here for the first time and did n't know what was going on , ’ he recalls .
4 I was n't coming to terms with it and did n't know what to do .
5 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 .
6 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 ?
7 Ask a dozen American curators about Earl A. Powell III , the new Director of the National Gallery , Washington , and you get more or less the same general response : ‘ If you were having lunch with Rusty ( his nickname that everyone uses ) and did n't know what he did for a living , you would think he was either an Assistant Secretary of the Navy , a General Manager of General Motors , or a football coach .
8 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 .
9 A lot of them were slow , and did n't know what they were doing half the time : they 'd give you the wrong medicine .
10 I had never met David Waite and did n't know what he thought .
11 He saw them off on honeymoon and did n't know what to do with the weeks they were going to be away , until he thought of taking a total-immersion course in Italian .
12 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 . ’
13 " The Shah wanted to go to America because he did n't know what Sullivan was reporting and did n't know what was happening in the US .
14 Devils could get into children because children were weak and did n't know what was happening to them .
15 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 .
16 He had lost control , and did n't know what to do .
17 ‘ I felt very pressurised and did n't know what to say , so I just said : ‘ Yes ’ . ’
18 He thanked her and did n't know what else to say .
19 So it 's not as if we 're having breathing and did n't know what to do ! were n't it ?
20 Thirty year old Robin , thirty two year old Paul and twenty three year old Darren , say they withdraw the notes from a bank and did n't know they were phoney .
21 She had not one , but two enemies to face , and did n't know which was more terrifying .
22 He was quite depressed and did n't know which way to turn .
23 You can tell that Arthur Parker , head of IBM UK 's Enterprise Systems division , is getting heartily sick of journalists asking him about downsizing : ‘ If I only read the papers and did n't know my subject I would believe that the vast majority of large corporations are desperate to move applications off the mainframe — and that is rubbish ’ he says .
24 With hindsight , Beatrice 's remark that she was not at all impressed and did n't know who he was seems significant .
25 He had n't seen them and did n't know who they were .
26 If I 'd have that she would be glad had knocked her sis , sisters into the garden and did n't know she was there !
27 I realized I 'd no experience of organizing a memorial party and did n't know anybody who had .
28 His father was staying in the same house , and did n't know I was staying there , so I used to creep in at night .
29 The three say they were issued the cash by a bank and did n't know it was phoney .
30 The new military leaders realised that Richter and the entire enterprise was flawed , but did n't know what to do with him .
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