Example sentences of "because we do n't know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leee Childers : ‘ In America , we 'd go to the record companies and make outrageous demands at RCA because we did n't know any better . |
| 2 | We had tinned stuff all yesterday because we did n't know where to get the other . ’ |
| 3 | But it was also great , because we did n't know any different , so we never missed anything . |
| 4 | Now , after that , you was er taught all the parts of the waggons , and er this took quite a long while because we did n't know anything about them , and er where they all went and the parts they went . |
| 5 | Because we did n't know where in the brain any changes might occur , or very much about chick brain anatomy ( nor , it should be said , did anyone else at the time ) , we divided the forebrain arbitrarily into two regions which we called simply ‘ roof ’ and ‘ base ’ . |
| 6 | because we did n't know who was coming and who was n't . |
| 7 | Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see . |
| 8 | The inquest was only opened , of course — it had to be adjourned because we did n't know the man 's identity . |
| 9 | It makes us look impressive , which we are n't because we did n't know the half of it either and had to look it all up . |
| 10 | It was hard because we did n't know anything for sure . |
| 11 | Because we did n't know how long we 've had it . |
| 12 | I mean if , and if I said we 'll have , if I have the policemen down , and they say they can , there nothing they can do because we do n't know their names |
| 13 | Thus , we will not be able to predict what the apparent values of these quantities will be because we do n't know how many baby universes are waiting out there . |
| 14 | Because we do n't know how many baby universes there are , there will he different possible values for the apparent cosmological constant . |
| 15 | er which may or may not be there because we do n't know how much her income is . |
| 16 | So they 're not bad value , but I , again I would n't overdo it , because we do n't know what the schemes will actually produce , and if you 're going to that I 'd er most of the schemes are limited to five thousand minimum . |
| 17 | It is rather difficult to talk about human memory because we do n't know how the brain works in detail . |
| 18 | Consider , for example , finding the following notice on someone 's office door : ( I ) I 'll be back in an hour Because we do n't know when it was written , we can not know when the writer will return . |
| 19 | Which was not organized because we do n't know anyone |
| 20 | oh the timetable which I as well will , will erm , would be about two months , the first step has to be taken by the defendant because we do n't know yet whether they are prepared to oppose the structure , and if so , what sort of structure they would be prepared to oppose , erm , if and when , er a formal offer of structure came through , I would have little doubt that we could instruct accountants and get a response within a matter of weeks , sometimes one has to if they 're doing an commercial structure within a week or so because the offer is only open for ten days |
| 21 | The exception to this is the police , who have had by far the largest addition to that , they have n't lost money when they lost S S A , erm , we have been ge , extremely generous to them , far more than to any other committee this year , erm , and although we have n't given them money for , to pay awards because we do n't know exactly what it is . |
| 22 | Well we , we do n't whether we 're making a profit because we do n't know where , how our allowance related to the actual money which we were going to earn from doing the work . |
| 23 | Because we do n't know what the disorder is , we ca n't tell the family what the future holds . |
| 24 | ‘ We 're up the creek because we do n't know where to go from here . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ And we ca n't prosecute the vandals because we do n't know who they are . ’ |
| 26 | That is to say we are , we all need renewal and new ideas , but we stick to old quarrels and re-run old battles because we do n't know how to face up to the real problems at the present , nor to find ways of working together for a worthwhile future . |
| 27 | Chair , can I just help you here recently , because we 've had a recent case ourselves erm , this is an ironic twist to this , because Councillor Patten 's being writing to the County on Highway and Traffic issues recently and sending us a copy , and it 's stunned us a little bit , because normally they would write to us direct , but there 's a sting in this because we do n't know whether we 're supposed to respond to him now , or the county . |