Example sentences of "because they [verb] n't know " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Some friends who have lost their virginity did so because they did n't know what was going on . |
| 3 | When Business Age magazine published their list of the richest women in Britain this week , they left Diana 's name off it — because they did n't know she had any dosh of her own . |
| 4 | There were no games , partly because they did n't know any , partly because all five were united , in this if in nothing else , in the belief that dice , cards , charades , were a frivolous waste of time . |
| 5 | ‘ Because they did n't know where it was . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | got to be the ones that are in charge , in other words the ones that have been mislead , God might overlook because they did n't know that they were probably being mislead |
| 8 | The problem with many of the parents we interviewed of primary school children was that they did n't really know what their children were doing at school a lot of the time and , because they did n't know what they were doing , they sort of feared that it , they were n't doing anything or that what they were doing was not actual work , what they remembered as work . |
| 9 | ‘ Because they do n't know what is happening out there , ’ Nicholas said . |
| 10 | I am prepared to accept that anyone who knows me may dislike me , but when someone who can not dislike me because they do n't know me , attacks me , I collapse inside , I lose eloquence , I get frightened , sometimes I cry . |
| 11 | In a poignant soliloquy , watching smoke curl into the sky like an ethereal question mark , he exclaims , ‘ Ah , human beings — they tremble and worry like a leaf in the storm because they know and because they do n't know . ’ |
| 12 | These guys do n't like to mess around ; they get in there and record the goddamned thing , because they do n't know anything about how to not do it good . |
| 13 | Some women may find it hard to talk about safer sex with new partners , simply because they do n't know them very well . |
| 14 | But I think all the silliness is all part of actually adjusting to the condom , and something to do with the embarrassment that because they do n't know enough about it they , they do n't want to be er , seen to be silly |
| 15 | you know , because they do n't know what their right are with And you know , I think places like the law centre , which fight for the rights of people in , you know to develop that that kind of service for people . |
| 16 | Film stars make terrible mothers , but that 's because they do n't know how to behave . ’ |
| 17 | I went in alone because they do n't know you . |
| 18 | Just because they do n't know what it socialism |
| 19 | Carers are often confused because they do n't know which of the many agencies to go to . |
| 20 | They can not tell us because they do n't know and because they are campaigning for power at any cost . |
| 21 | That 's not actually , because they do n't know who 's , erm , the girl 's gon na be . |
| 22 | They would rather go and burgle a house that is n't alarmed , erm because they do n't know what type of alarm you 've got there . |
| 23 | not intimidated but just because they do n't know who we are . |
| 24 | It 's not fair if you said how , what you feel , then maybe they 'll change it but they 're not going to do anything without them knowing you , because they do n't know them until you 've told them do they ? |