Example sentences of "not [verb] what the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We still do not know what the Government 's aims and objectives at Maastricht are . |
| 2 | He could not interpret the hand gestures and did not know what the offworlder was thinking . |
| 3 | We do not know what the staying-on rate will be until the autumn , and it is capable of further revision during the year . |
| 4 | The captain did not know what the craft was carrying , though that was not unusual , and the line was under contract partly for its discretion . |
| 5 | I do not know what the majority here or in the country may think about it . |
| 6 | She did not know what the message was : Lee in this state was no longer a lovelorn friend but a trauma . |
| 7 | I do not know what the hilarity is about , but please carry on . |
| 8 | It 's no excuse that the salesman did not know what the customer planned to do with the recorder , even if it is labelled with a warning about not taping copyright records or films . |
| 9 | I do not know what the Secretary of State is doing now to an article . |
| 10 | JOHN SMITH is preparing to launch the biggest tax assault ever on middle income families while claiming that he does not know what the effect of his tax hike will be on incentives , confidence or on the economy . |
| 11 | ‘ I do not know what the outcome will be as there are an awful lot of issues which are unclear . |
| 12 | She did not know what the matter was but knew instinctively that this was the right thing to do . |
| 13 | I have a car badge belonging to the 159 Motor Club but do not know what the club is , or was , and have been unable to find out . |
| 14 | We can not know what the future will bring ; nor did he . |
| 15 | We did not know what the future might hold and had to face the possibility that we may not see each other again . |
| 16 | Hankin , as well as the players , press and supporters , do not know what the future holds . |
| 17 | Scott replied : ‘ I do not know what the future may hold , but authorities have no power to provide cash now ’ . |
| 18 | Even the most experienced police interrogator can not entirely avoid leading questions , simply because he can not know what the witness actually knows or what really happened . |
| 19 | In the 1980S , as the communications industries multiplied and expanded , and the number of policy-actors and centres of decision ( local and regional as well as national ( proliferated , it often appeared that the right hand did not know what the left was doing . |
| 20 | So instead they hedge their comments and the end result is the person being appraised still does not know what the organization thinks of them . |
| 21 | I do not know what the answer is , but I know what the answer is not . |
| 22 | ( g ) We do not know what the mother said to Miss T. , because she has not chosen to tell the court , but it appears to be the fact that on the two occasions when Miss T. raised the issue of blood transfusions , she did so suddenly and ‘ out of the blue ’ without any inquiry from hospital staff and immediately following occasions when she had been alone with her mother . |
| 23 | I do not know what the sensuality of a man is . |
| 24 | At first Dinah did not understand ; the way he talked was strange to her , and in any case she did not know what the term meant . |
| 25 | Quite deliberately the storyteller has not reported what the runner told the people of the town . |
| 26 | The Act did not specify what the rate was to be , but it was made clear that the initial rate of 40 per cent would be increased to 45 per cent and then to 50 per cent ‘ at reasonably short intervals ’ . |
| 27 | But we can not smell what the dog can smell , nor interpret such scents , body postures and barks in the way our dog does . |
| 28 | It did not matter what the man looked like , but he should be listened to . |
| 29 | Obviously he does not deny the cat 's whining and agitated leaping in the presence of the ball , nor does he refuse its possession of ‘ sensory data ‘ , but these will not show what the cat believes ; namely , ‘ what categories of things it recognises ’ . |
| 30 | De Havilland , a British company , designed and built the first passenger jet airplane , but it did not analyze what the market needed and therefore did not identify two key factors . |