Example sentences of "[verb] n't know they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who did n't know them might have taken them for a couple of businessmen out for a Sunday afternoon stroll . |
| 2 | If he did n't know them already , that takes grit . ’ |
| 3 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 4 | When I was a kid it was two-times table and the sharp edge of a ruler along your-arse if you did n't know them . |
| 5 | Timothy Gedge , with his hollow cheeks and his gawkiness , had picked on them even though he did n't know them , even though they 'd done him no harm . |
| 6 | " I think they thought I did n't observe all the rules of protocol — but I did n't know them … |
| 7 | Maybe because she did n't know them ? |
| 8 | But if it was perhaps even a little one your own age if you did n't know them very well it would be you . |
| 9 | I did n't know them personally . |
| 10 | Of course we did n't know them like we used to wear them . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't know they were making a tortoise , did I ? |
| 12 | He or she invents a product which consumers did n't know they wanted until it is made available , manufactures it with the assistance of purveyors of risk capital known as publishers , and sells it in competition with makers of marginally differentiated products of the same kind . |
| 13 | What they did n't know they read about . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't know they paid that well in the nick , ’ he heard himself say loudly . |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't know they were all scientists . |
| 16 | And although the guys knew each other pretty well , they did n't know they were each coming to me , and they also did n't know they were asking for essentially the same mods ! |
| 17 | And although the guys knew each other pretty well , they did n't know they were each coming to me , and they also did n't know they were asking for essentially the same mods ! |
| 18 | ‘ I told 'em about you an' the money lender but I did n't know they were gooin' to snowball yer , ’ she said , pulling me to my feet . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't know they had one . ’ |
| 20 | Some of the houses were haunted , though as a child I did n't know they were haunted . |
| 21 | I could n't see the clock — I did n't know they even had a clock . |
| 22 | ‘ You mean you really did n't know they 'd left ? |
| 23 | But how does it happen that you did n't know they were leaving ? |
| 24 | No , not towards them — she did n't know they were there — towards a gate that led to a field tucked away under the mountain . |
| 25 | It was n't as if they did n't know they were taking a risk — during the fifties and sixties debates raged in the press about highrise housing , with its defenders calling opposition simply prejudice . |
| 26 | I did n't know they had blocked that from you . |
| 27 | Thirty year old Robin , thirty two year old Paul and twenty three year old Darren , say they withdraw the notes from a bank and did n't know they were phoney . |
| 28 | I 'd believe anything bad about anybody , if I did n't know they were all a load of bloody liars . ’ |
| 29 | In the unlikely event that someone other than Lorton had killed Newley , the murderer might have left behind both guinea and ransom for the simple reason that he did n't know they were there . |
| 30 | Joseph said : ‘ We did n't know they were here . |