Example sentences of "[verb] not know the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I see you do n't know the man . |
| 2 | Thompson did not know the details then because he did not want to . |
| 3 | A 27-year-old party member and ex-Red Army man had read the press regularly since 1917 , but did not know the meaning of words such as ‘ class enemy ’ , occupation , period , or most abbreviations , including the USSR . |
| 4 | Yeo Davis 's business was concerned with representing people who did not know the ropes , or even that there were any ropes ; Hutton 's predominantly with fellow professionals in other fields who just wanted the best and swiftest way through . |
| 5 | Eckert did not know the real Arthur Hardy 's share in these juvenile expeditions , nor had he seen the then unpublished A Sportman 's Tale which amplifies the sustained friendship between these two Battersea Grammar School pupils . |
| 6 | You see , she did not know the driver . |
| 7 | He had not read the Tower Commission 's report , evidently ; did not know that McFarlane had pleaded guilty to misdemeanours ; did not know the substance of the charges against Poindexter ; had not altered in any particular the mythology created when the edifice had first crashed down , in November 1986 . |
| 8 | Mr Moores said although he knew Mr Souness was ill , he did not know the extent of his condition until after the game . |
| 9 | Dr Sue Llewelyn , a lecturer in psychology at Edinburgh University , said psychologists were aware there was a problem , but did not know the extent of it . |
| 10 | Roland did not know the answer . |
| 11 | Sam , who did not know the term schoolmaster was ever applied to the equine , looked puzzled . |
| 12 | Sam did not know the Aga Khan 's stud at Chantilly from a Leyland double decker bus factory in Preston , but he knew how to say the right things . |
| 13 | ‘ Now this devotee did not know the letters . |
| 14 | This leaves us to assume that the beneficiary ought to pay in the event that ( iii ) it could not be shown that the testator , had he known the land was pledged , would have left something else or ( iv ) the testator did not know the land was pledged . |
| 15 | It was a question Marian had been expecting and which she had been asking herself but to which she did not know the answer . |
| 16 | Nell still did not know the details , doubted now if anyone would . |
| 17 | But she had no wish to go further into the pseudo-science , and did not know the hour of her birth anyway — only that she had Sol in Cancer . |
| 18 | We did not know the answers . ’ |
| 19 | Quinn did not know the area , but he knew of it . |
| 20 | They adopted what was becoming the catch-phrase of the moment — ‘ if you knew what we know ’ — but , as even the Convener of Orkney Islands Council , Jackie Tait , said he did not know the full details , how did some of the other councillors purport to know ? |
| 21 | The young women had heard that Berwick was besieged and that the English army was none so far off , but they did not know the details , nor of course that Ramsay had been involved . |
| 22 | When he said he did not know the date of Adam 's return , Lewis Verne-Smith had not lied to the police . |
| 23 | Peter Pagnamenta , the editor , came into my room to say there was a message for me to ring the Hawick police : there had been an accident involving my family but he did not know the details . |
| 24 | The Hawick policeman told me it was a very serious accident in which Moira , Rachel , Fiona and Alastair had all been involved : they had been taken to different hospitals but he did not know the extent of their injuries or any other details . |
| 25 | I did not know the answer then , and I do not know it now . |
| 26 | I did not know the uncle well , but he knew my husband . |
| 27 | Even Maurice Bernard , owner of the one bar currently open in Saignon , did not know the whereabouts of the man who is about to immortalise his region on the small screen . |
| 28 | We simply did not know the extent to which English people are taught to despise us . |
| 29 | At the Hard Rock Cafe , London , Mr Brooke admitted he did not know the full repertoire of the band , famous for hits like I 'm Too Sexy and Deeply Dippy . |
| 30 | He did not know the people on it and they did not seem as keen to join as he had expected . |