Example sentences of "we do [not/n't] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are aware , in the novels we read , both of an authorial identification with the leading character or the first-person narrator , and of material that might constitute an authorial judgement in that respect : but we do n't know what the verdict is . |
| 2 | Except that we do n't know whose hand . ’ |
| 3 | Except we do n't know why , or how , or with what accentuation |
| 4 | ‘ But what we do n't know , ’ Sam Weller told me , ‘ is the relevant importance of those factors ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ We did n't know ’ , he says as the three embark on the master plan , ‘ that we were playing with fire — Greek fire , ’ he adds , ‘ the kind that burns and destroys ’ , in case we do n't know what playing with fire means . |
| 6 | One could imagine a ‘ price pause ’ for a limited time ; but after that — is there something familiar about all this ? — one would have to start discovering which prices ought to rise and which ought to fall to offset them , and this is just what we want a commission to do for us because we pretend that we do n't know how to do it for ourselves . |
| 7 | ‘ We do n't know where he is , ’ Moran said reluctantly . |
| 8 | ‘ We do n't know , ’ Sheila answered carefully . |
| 9 | ‘ We do n't know , Daddy . |
| 10 | ‘ We do n't know any more than that , ’ Maggie protested to Rose after he had gone . |
| 11 | The problem is , we do n't know how to put it all together . |
| 12 | ‘ We do n't know , ’ says his sister Veronica , a teacher and unpublished poet living in Massachusetts . |
| 13 | We do n't know ; but God never does things accidentally . |
| 14 | ‘ You have to remember they may be interested in something about us that we do n't know about yet . |
| 15 | We do n't know who or what 's out there ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We do n't know what might happen , ’ she said , trying to be firm . |
| 17 | We do n't know which is causing the most pain or even which event grieves us the most . |
| 18 | The experiments were short-lasting ; and we do n't know how much we can apply figures from medieval England , with small dies of low relief , to the ancient world . |
| 19 | Told by Secord that the Second Channel was going to solve the hostage problem , ‘ but we do n't know how , ’ North replied , ‘ I do n't care how , right now . ’ |
| 20 | We do n't know how Beethoven conducted his music or how he would have conducted if he had been able to hear everything that was going on , but we know from Brahms 's letters that he allowed himself sometimes great flexibility . |
| 21 | We do n't know when the car arrived in the car park . |
| 22 | ‘ And do n't think we do n't know it , ’ Doone nodded . |
| 23 | ‘ You never know what we do n't know , ’ he said . |
| 24 | ‘ But employees can only apply to take the leave in unbusy times for their department and we do n't know yet what the take-up is going to be . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ We do n't know who is spreading these rumours but the reason seems to change with each caller . ’ |
| 26 | It shows an exasperated Royal — we do n't know which , since only a hand is visible — wondering how to store the vast pile of gifts from a grateful Canada . |
| 27 | ‘ We do n't know yet whether the young players of today will have the same problems , ’ adds Sortland , who , despite the results , will not be advising children against taking up football . |
| 28 | ‘ We do n't know what is happening , but that may yet be allocated to women 's issues . ’ |
| 29 | We are all terribly sorry and worried about this , as we do n't know what has happened . |
| 30 | The plane might have been forced down by fighters or other enemy action , or had to land for some other reason , and we do n't know whether the men were able to get away all right or not . |