Example sentences of "[noun] who did n't know [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucy who did n't know she was going to be pounced on . |
| 2 | The servants at the house were mostly foreigners who did n't know their arse from their elbow , as Morgan put it to himself . |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , he 'll get over that , ’ Terry said with the confidence of a sister who did n't know her brother as well as she thought she did . |
| 4 | There was a moment 's silence as he prowled round the room , his misery betrayed by every contained movement of his lean male body , before he added wryly , ‘ At the time I was the only man in Copenhagen who did n't know it . ’ |
| 5 | He was the first person I 'd met that day who did n't know what a dolmen was . |
| 6 | She used it with people who did n't know her very well . |
| 7 | She was longing to go somewhere away from all this , among people who did n't know her , quiet and dark where nothing happened . |
| 8 | The respect in which the Headmaster of our second school is held again contrasts with the contempt and even hatred felt for the man who headed our first — the man who did n't know their names . |
| 9 | Whites who did n't know him , yet condemned him with borrowed certainty as someone who had little interest in cricket beyond its utility as a stick to beat the apartheid policy with , were typical of the society I came from . |
| 10 | He remembered taking her to school , it was after their mother died , Georgia would 've been seven , she did n't want to go , there were girls who tied her to trees , it was her accent or her looks , he could n't remember now , but he had to take her because he 'd promised Dad , Dad who did n't know anything , the scratches on her legs were brambles , the bruises on her wrists were something else , he could n't remember now , how could they tell him the truth , how could they tell him anything when all he did was sit in dark rooms with his head in his hands , his head haunted by her ghost , and each dawn broke like the slow blow of a hammer . |
| 11 | The other seats were for a couple who did n't know their way to this hall and decided to follow his car . |
| 12 | ‘ Someone on the set who did n't know her asked if she really had been ill recently and I said no , she 's actually quite young and looks amazing underneath all that . |