Example sentences of "did [pron] know " in BNC.
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1 | Did everyone know that he could n't read ? |
2 | These pipes stretching thinly in a bridge across the service road injected a mix of chemicals into the walls of the furnace itself ; did I know that fuel was only used in the start-up process , after which the chemicals themselves provided the fire ? |
3 | I was the Saturday lad , he was a mate of Malcolm 's , what did I know ? |
4 | How do you know ? he said , implying I was only the shop lad and what did I know ? |
5 | Little did I know how right he was because the first thing that happened when David 's mother had a bad day , she would call me everything under the sun . |
6 | He said he 'd just come back from Amsterdam and he had tried some and said it was great and did I know where he could get some . |
7 | I says : ‘ Did I know what ? ’ |
8 | I 'd abandoned the empty house and walked joyfully into the woods and only by chance did I know what had hit me . |
9 | How did I know that they would say yes so readily ? |
10 | Nor did I know that our intestinal tracts are those of a herbivore , 32 feet long and that if we were meant in enjoy Contre-filet braisé à l'ancienne they would be only a quarter of that length . |
11 | Nor did I know that , in the normal human body , up to 100,000 cells can become cancerous every single day . |
12 | I found I was being sent to some ghastly hole , miles from civilisation , on top of the Lincolnshire wolds , and as I trekked sullenly north , little did I know how the course of my life was about to be permanently changed . |
13 | How did I know he was the world 's greatest ? |
14 | Little did I know that I was hooked . |
15 | How did I know that such-and-such a principle was right , especially when no one there shared it ? |
16 | Little did I know how serious they were . |
17 | Little did I know then that one day I would be training a fully grown bird of prey to hunt . |
18 | Little did I know how useful these things were going to be to me in the future . |
19 | This was exciting enough , but little did I know that after noon how much more exciting hunting rabbits with a hawk could be . |
20 | How did I know he was leadership stuff ? |
21 | Little did I know she was gon na be me wife an' 'ave me children . ’ |
22 | How much did I know ? |
23 | Was n't this a property-owning democracy , had n't the Prime Minister told him so herself , did n't all our readers have mortgages , did I know how much prices in his road had gone up ? |
24 | Did I know where you were living now ? |
25 | Did I know ? |
26 | Little did I know that my brief interlude in the north would stretch to eight years , bring me many more undreamed of adventures at sea in fantastic scenery and make me many very good lifelong friends in the islands of the West . |
27 | How did I know she had nothing on under her dress ? |
28 | ‘ How did I know ? ’ she asked . |
29 | How did I know all about him ? ’ |
30 | ‘ Little did I know that this was just the tip of an Iceberg , frozen on chat shows , enlarged on British Telecom commercials and now floating treacherously towards me . |