Example sentences of "do [not/n't] know [pron] " in BNC.

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1 Evidence from all over the world suggests that women have all the gifts needed to be effective and caring priests : to bring the love of Christ to those who do not know him and to be enablers of others .
2 ‘ I have lived with my husband for twenty years and still I do not know him . ’
3 Twenty years I have lived with the same man and still I do not know him .
4 We have never slept apart and still I do not know him .
5 I have borne his child and still I do not know him .
6 I am Catholic and can not divorce but I do not want to divorce because I do not know him well enough to want to divorce him .
7 ‘ Then you are deluded , my darling , because you do not know him .
8 For twenty years I have known the same man and yet still I do not know him .
9 God , by his unpredictable and uncontainable Spirit , is guiding the destinies of nations and individuals who do not know him , or deny his very existence .
10 So I do not know him well .
11 ‘ I do not know him , ’ he snapped .
12 ‘ Effendi , I do not know him .
13 ‘ True , I do not know him and have no wish to , but he intrigues me .
14 I do not know him I do not know him .
15 I do not know him I do not know him .
16 Never be afraid to admit that you do not know something an d to ask advice .
17 A dark , sinister masque is being played out and we do not know whom to trust .
18 And I do not know of any other argument , not relying on PC k , which Nozick could use to show that we do not know we are not brains in a vat without showing that we do not know most other things either .
19 Stroud ( 1984 , ch. 2 ) considers a similar argument against the sceptic 's attempt to generalize from the fact that we do not know we are not brains in a vat .
20 I frankly do not know which I prefer , wrote Harsnet .
21 What is so troubling is that the Discarded Image Lewis is there beside the bullying rhetorician , and we do not know which of them is going to speak next .
22 We do not know which , if any , funds are affected and we do not know whether there has been an over valuation or an under valuation . ’
23 ( There again , I still do not know which of us was right ; a little of each , perhaps . )
24 We do not know which , if any , of these treatments is effective at the moment , although they are all in current use and variously recommended by health professionals .
25 We do not know which , if any , of them will have the desired results . ’
26 At first it will be helpful to know which is being described , but later , having worked through the chosen list , you could try to pick out which is being described when one category is chosen ( you do not know which ) in random order .
27 I do not know which of these criteria , if any , the Harvard linguists would use to justify their comments .
28 On the basis of interviews with prisoners in The Netherlands and England , Downes concluded that there was less ‘ depth ’ to imprisonment in the former , a parallel to John Howard 's conclusion two centuries earlier : ‘ I do not know which to admire most , the neatness and cleanliness appearing in the prisons , the industry and regular conduct of the prisoners , or the humanity and attention of the magistrates and regents . ’
29 I do not know which company in their burgeoning hi-fi industry is responsible but they can be quite pleased with themselves on this evidence .
30 The reason that we can not calculate the necessary correction is that we do not know which way the photon went when it bounced into the microscope .
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