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

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1 ‘ Essentially they did n't know me from a hole in the ground when I first approached them and were willing to give me the benefit of the doubt .
2 They did n't know me .
3 When he waved or smiled at those he knew , they turned away , as if they did n't know him .
4 Why was it all women hated her so , even when they did n't know her ?
5 When they heard the news they did n't know what to . ’
6 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 .
7 We did n't exactly get the bird but they just could n't handle it — they did n't know what sort of music we were playing .
8 They did n't know what to do .
9 They did n't know what they were worth . ’
10 They did n't know what he was so excited about , and his father was disgusted to find that I could n't draw a footballer ( an unKerridgean species ) .
11 They looked me over , said that they did n't know what it was and sent me home .
12 They did n't know what they were going to do with them .
13 They had left her at school as long as they could , because they did n't know what to do with her ; but now she was to take this course and later get a job on a newspaper .
14 They did n't know what it was like , these people .
15 They did n't know what rough was .
16 The frogs could hear them although they did n't know what they meant or even what they were .
17 Some friends who have lost their virginity did so because they did n't know what was going on .
18 They did n't know what was going on .
19 They did n't know what was going on , like , did n't know what to do , whether to lock me in me room , or let me out and do what I wanted to do , but in the end , like , I just did n't come back here for a coupla months .
20 They did n't know what she was talking about but they could feel she was frightened .
21 They did n't know what to say to this so they said nothing and he stood there , grinning and rubbing his hands together .
22 They had looked forward to seeing her but when she came they did n't know what to say .
23 Well they did n't know what was best for her .
24 I told them they did n't know what it was like .
25 Oh yeah , lots of stuff made for the Army and and and they did n't know , I mean the manufacturers s sent the work to the hosiery dye- yards they they did n't know what they were sending or what they got , they just churned it all out and and that was it you know it were I could a lot of things about that .
26 The islanders did n't have money then , and as they did n't have money they did n't know what ‘ poor ’ meant .
27 And she resisted finding out , in the way that other girls she had known kept themselves in deliberate ignorance of such things as impregnation , in the unarticulated hope that if they did n't know what it was it could n't happen to them .
28 They did n't know what they were looking for , any more than we did .
29 Much to the amusement of two American girls who stayed with us because they did n't know what this phrase was I mean they could n't have sort it out in the first place of what it meant .
30 Put yourself in the in the shoes of the Sanhedrin , they did n't know what he was talking about , they 're probably talking literally .
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