Example sentences of "they [verb] n't [adv] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor did their broadcasts attribute any part of the story to me — there was no reason for them to do that because I 'd told them nothing they did n't already know . |
| 2 | It 's interesting that gay men on Switchboard found it much easier to accept that they did n't automatically know best for lesbians than white people on Switchboard find it to accept that they might not know best for Black people . |
| 3 | They did n't even know I could sing , but they said they could do things to my voice . |
| 4 | They got to Ryan 's bedroom just in time to stop a bunch of kids they did n't even know putting his treasured copy of the Beatles White LP on the turntable . |
| 5 | It felt strange to be watching in silence all those lives going on , and although we were aware of all the comings and goings of their lives , they did n't even know we existed . |
| 6 | They did n't even know about nomes ! |
| 7 | That 's all they had to go on — they did n't even know what key they were meant to be playing in . |
| 8 | they did n't even know how to put the clip onto the microphone , they were sitting holding the microphones instead of slinging it round their neck , and they 've never been told about the equipment , so they need n't |
| 9 | Many carers , I have heard say , time and time again , that they feel guilty even asking they did n't even know they had a right to ask , well this legislation now allows people to ask , does n't mean to say their needs are gon na be met , but at least it gives them a right to ask . |
| 10 | It was a bit unnerving ; they did n't even know John . |
| 11 | Whereas Belial Base had been built on the outer surface of a solid moon , Moloch Base was inside a hollow one ; a miracle of planetary engineering which , after five years , still had Bannen and his team groping in the dark for answers to questions they did n't even know how to formulate . |
| 12 | They did n't even know what a TV was then . |
| 13 | Actually just just quickly er I just noticed on that list of your questionnaires that we got back a couple that they did n't actually know what was going on . |
| 14 | They were all in a meeting , and they did n't quite know how to deal with me — I was the first celebrity ever to have gone . |
| 15 | And er they said they wanted a nurse , this child had been very sick and they did n't quite know what was wrong with him . |
| 16 | It went down great , they enjoyed it , although they did n't quite know what to think , because we were both rockabilly . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Action Health usually only deals with healthcare professionals , so they did n't really know what to do with me , ’ she laughs . |
| 18 | Erm , at the start it was a bit higgledy-piggly , they did n't really know what they was doing , I felt anyway . |
| 19 | He was getting a bit frustrated , they did n't really know what they were supposed to be doing . |
| 20 | She said she had n't been for a while and erm then she said they did n't really know , they wondered how she was gon na get on in the water . |
| 21 | And they did n't really know anything about the blooming bloke you know ! |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Aye , yeah well she , she was , you know there 's a period of time where they , they sort of leave the grammar school and the , and the , they do n't just know what they , what 's gon na happen |
| 24 | Someone 's chucked it down there and they 've gone off and forgot it and they do n't even know who I am . |
| 25 | That awful thing that so many groups get themselves involved in , when they 're on a plane and they do a gig and they do n't even know what city they 're in , he 'd manage to avoid . |
| 26 | They 've signed a treaty of surrender , and they do n't even know it . ’ |
| 27 | They do n't even know it exists . |
| 28 | ‘ They do n't even know anything about the war . |
| 29 | They do n't even know about that . |
| 30 | ‘ These men , ’ said a teacher , ‘ do not even speak in Castilian , but in slang ; sometimes they do n't even know how to write , and can hardly read . |