Example sentences of "not know [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I do not know about illness in his family .
2 This has not yet been discovered and we do not know what the machines are for — rather as nineteenth-century people did not know about plutonium and nuclear reactors — so we do not know what such developments will lead to in terms of aesthetic and economic considerations , and eventually the effects on the landscape and the settlements in it .
3 The author 's job is to know about literature ; what he might or might not know about life is irrelevant to that job .
4 More recently studies have attempted to refine their research methodologies so that reviews of this research are much clearer about what we can claim to know and not know about abuse and in particular that it is a much more complex problem than was first thought .
5 Hunting is very complicated and most people do not know about hunting or how it is done so they do n't like it and say that it is cruel .
6 Spontaneous and unrehearsed music seems to be acceptable to clergy who do not know about music .
7 In Darwin 's lifetime , physicists did not know about radioactivity , and therefore thought that the earth would cool down rather quickly .
8 But she did not know about religion .
9 Perhaps it speaks to a part of our mind that does not know about self-control — a part that remembers the time when we were entirely in someone else 's power and they , in a certain sense , were in ours .
10 Here two out of every three farmers/part-time farmers did not know about training activities .
11 It can not be said of Barth that he did not know of evolution !
12 IT is high time that we stopped this charade of swearing allegiance to the Queen and her heirs and successors because we do not know from time to time who they are .
13 They are children : they do not know by instinct how to behave and how to treat one another .
14 We do not know in detail whence the monks were recruited ; but on the whole they seem mainly to have come from the upper classes , and perhaps from the families of substantial town-dwellers .
15 At this distance in time we simply do not know in detail how the clerks did their jobs , for there were no manuals of office procedure , and the functional tasks gradually evolved so that they bore little resemblance to their forebears .
16 Obviously you can not know in advance which type of mat will be used at a particular tournament , so you should do your final training on any type of mat , just to get used to the feel , and then try to use any free time you may have on the actual competition areas to get a little practice in beforehand .
17 He pointed out that schools which took up the offer would not know in advance how much the discount would save them .
18 But they are intended to illustrate the very general point that we can not know in advance the belief systems of the communities we are studying ; an important part of good fieldwork practice is to get to know them and take them into account at all stages of the research , up to and beyond the time of publication .
19 ‘ I do n't know about reincarnation , ’ said Lydia , ‘ except it sounds to me a bit of a dirty trick .
20 The Führer does n't know about Operation Eagle .
21 You would n't know about athlete 's foot would you Andrew ?
22 They teach kids how to cook and mend cars and fuck one another without getting pregnant ; and the kids are , we assume , much better at all of this than we were , but what use is any of that to them if they do n't know about love ?
23 They do n't know about cold so intense that rivers freeze over so you can drive a horse and cart across them .
24 ‘ I do n't know about discontent , ’ said John le Grant , ‘ but I know what its opposite is .
25 We do n't know about damage .
26 I do n't know about port in a storm , said Dolly , more like an Army parade ground .
27 Oh yes I do n't know about song Chairman but er suppose I 'm singing a song of some sort .
28 There was n't much the urban pair did n't know about life and death .
29 Oh I do n't know about model , but no , not a model pupil dear .
30 Twenty things you did n't know about business in 1989 …
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