Example sentences of "did [pers pn] know " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | I was the Saturday lad , he was a mate of Malcolm 's , what did I know ? |
| 3 | How do you know ? he said , implying I was only the shop lad and what did I know ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I says : ‘ Did I know what ? ’ |
| 7 | I 'd abandoned the empty house and walked joyfully into the woods and only by chance did I know what had hit me . |
| 8 | How did I know that they would say yes so readily ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Nor did I know that , in the normal human body , up to 100,000 cells can become cancerous every single day . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | How did I know he was the world 's greatest ? |
| 13 | Little did I know that I was hooked . |
| 14 | How did I know that such-and-such a principle was right , especially when no one there shared it ? |
| 15 | Little did I know how serious they were . |
| 16 | Little did I know then that one day I would be training a fully grown bird of prey to hunt . |
| 17 | Little did I know how useful these things were going to be to me in the future . |
| 18 | This was exciting enough , but little did I know that after noon how much more exciting hunting rabbits with a hawk could be . |
| 19 | How did I know he was leadership stuff ? |
| 20 | Little did I know she was gon na be me wife an' 'ave me children . ’ |
| 21 | How much did I know ? |
| 22 | 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 ? |
| 23 | Did I know where you were living now ? |
| 24 | Did I know ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | How did I know she had nothing on under her dress ? |
| 27 | ‘ How did I know ? ’ she asked . |
| 28 | How did I know all about him ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | Little did I know I was a fool slipping into danger and the black shadow of Benjamin 's great-uncle would soon trap me . |