Example sentences of "did n't know [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I did n't know no better .
2 He said to me on the phone he did n't know a great deal cos he was just getting it all together .
3 She did n't know a single soul outwith the theatre company in this part of the world .
4 And I must admit once I 'd been I 'd , early on when I did n't know an awful lot , then , yeah , but , later on when I had been more experienced there was n't , there was very little difference between how I treated people whether they made a fuss or not .
5 Neighbour Eleanor Kane said : ‘ I did n't know the young woman but the police have been to the flat a few times . ’
6 ’ The only edge we have is that the Ardakkean prisoner , the thief , did n't know the final destination of the stolen phetam .
7 I did n't know the bloody blokes name !
8 Everyone in the whole marine department just threw up their hands in horror and told me I was crazy , I did n't know the first thing about ships , the whole marine fleet would fall apart .
9 He had been told that he did n't know the first thing about it , that the young were all the same , destructive and careless , that Mrs Irving set a value on her privacy .
10 She did n't know the first thing about him , after all .
11 And as I had this urge to correct manuscripts as I went along , and could n't read his handwriting , and did n't know the first thing about Roman Britain , you can imagine he felt obliged to educate me .
12 What was she doing , anyway , going out with a man she did n't know the first thing about ?
13 ‘ He did n't know the first thing about you , did he ? ’
14 Only then did she realise that , for all she had been in his company for a total of several hours now , she still did n't know the first thing about him .
15 And to point out to her now that she did n't know the right thing to do when visiting people like the Kirkleys would be , in a way , against the advice she had just given her , although it was n't to do with talking ; more like behaviour and deportment or some such .
16 He did n't know the correct etiquette for replying to a lady who 's just told you her recently-murdered husband was impotent .
17 She did n't know the promised ‘ exhibition ’ had been only a trick to get her niece to come to Venice , or that Michele Diomede was also Peter Sebastian , and she did n't known about Didi Lombard .
18 I said I did n't know the other guys , we just happened to be in the same pub .
19 I did n't know the other day .
20 I did n't know the full map .
21 They 've been revolting for years under the surface and then some thing happens that make it possible course the continued revolutions have gone on through the world and because they 've seen the success of a revolution in Russia although we did n't know the full facts of it in the West , it was , it did establish a huge area in the wake of a revolution .
22 But before the hearing Mr Hayton who works as a farmer , said critics of the original sentence did n't know the full facts of ther case .
23 ‘ I bet you did n't know the Scotch thistle does n't really grow all that much in Scotland at all . ’
24 Well , I did n't know the special number for making the lifts work , so I could n't escape by the lifts .
25 And I did n't know the dead girl 's name .
26 Inspector Tallboy did n't know the precise meaning of the word ‘ gleaned ’ , but he caught the general tone .
27 I did n't know the next thing .
28 I suppose he thought I did n't know the different you see .
29 I did n't know The Rolling Stones had started playing just down by the river . ’
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