Example sentences of "but [pers pn] [verb] not know " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is prepared to come to Britain and live with me here but I do not know if he will be allowed . |
| 2 | But I do not know if I will take it . ’ |
| 3 | I know he is sick , but I do not know how sick , and therefore I do not know what to do . |
| 4 | Apparently from the notes , a certain Fruchtbaum in the Times Literary Supplement has described Charles on setting out on the Beagle voyage in such terms , which is certainly an exaggeration , but I do not know anyone else who has ever subscribed to that opinion . |
| 5 | But I do not know anyone who would willingly die , for instance , of lung Cancer on the virtuous grounds that he was helping others through his taxes . |
| 6 | I have a feeling that he had been married but I do not know what happened . |
| 7 | I have heard of the practice of solicitors buying local searches from the vendor 's solicitors , in order to save time , but I do not know whether this is widespread . |
| 8 | I did hear once that he had threatened his father , but I do not know if this is true , and they , poor souls , never said a word against him . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But I do not know what it is , or even what is there ! |
| 10 | Seems to know me but I do not know her ( not Minny ) . |
| 11 | But I do not know what it was . ’ |
| 12 | It may possibly be offered tomorrow , but I do not know . |
| 13 | ‘ They are my punishment ; but I do not know what I am being punished for . |
| 14 | Again my my personal view is that I think phasing has got a lot a lot going for it but I do not know how you could phase current commitments , because after all those those are on the table now . |
| 15 | People sometimes say they bear no malice but I do not know how they can say that . |
| 16 | I do view this as one of the ‘ great classics but I do not know if I would say it is the greatest book ever written in English as I have not yet read widely enough but I would definitely say that for all the above reasons that it is a great book . |
| 17 | Small numbers were imported into Europe years ago , but I did not know they were available again . |
| 18 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 19 | But I did not know it . |
| 20 | I was not my parents ' child , but I did not know that then . |
| 21 | I wanted to object but I did not know how to do so . |
| 22 | There was no mirror in the cottage but I did not know where or how to look . |
| 23 | He stared at me , but I did not know if he understood or not . |
| 24 | Of the hundreds of prisoners who had escaped from the orphanage there were still a number hidden in the surrounding countryside , but I did not know where . |
| 25 | But I did not know that he was Ipuky 's son . ’ |
| 26 | An activity is decided upon by your PP , but you do not know what it is . |
| 27 | A nuclear explosion is what it could have been , but you do not know that that is what it was . ’ |
| 28 | It is his mysterious wind , which man can not get under his own tidy control : as Nicodemus was reminded by Jesus , ‘ The wind ( pneuma ) blows where it will , and you hear its sound but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going . |
| 29 | The wind blows where it wills , and you hear the sound of it but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes . |
| 30 | But she did not know our ways and her complaints or corrections were harsh by comparison with my mother 's . |