Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] did know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miss Rose admitted she did n't remember much of that day , except for Celia 's long labour — which I did know about , but it slipped my mind — so it 's possible she 's forgotten other deliveries during the day , when there were other midwives on duty . |
| 2 | Er I do n't know shorthand but I thought y somebody who did know shorthand would probably have a less hard time than I do writing down notes . |
| 3 | For the British at large , Czechoslovakia , compared with some of the others , was a not too far-off country of which we did know something : that distinctive spelling , those operas . |
| 4 | We could calculate the heritability for a character of which we did know the exact genetics ( such as Mendel 's peas ) , but there would be little point in doing so , because the actual genotypes controlling the trait are more informative than the heritability . |
| 5 | What I did know was that Shadwell was involved . |
| 6 | What I did know was that I did n't want to grow up , and my diary records that I confessed as much — when pressed to my housemistress . |
| 7 | In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him . |
| 8 | What I did know was that I discerned in the detail the cynical hand of the practising hack . |
| 9 | What she did know was that she never wanted to go away again . |
| 10 | What she did know was that he lived with his mother and two brothers , and that after the war he would go back to work in an insurance office . |
| 11 | Motherly but firm , ignorant but insistent on communicating what she did know , she was an excellent teacher for the lower forms . |
| 12 | She did n't know but what she did know was that Fernando would n't do anything to hurt anyone … only herself , as he had threatened when she had first arrived here at the lovely Casa Pinar . |
| 13 | However this convenient explanation of his style bore no relation to what we did know about O's past life with other men . |
| 14 | They did n't know much but they told you what they did know in the most cryptic way possible to whet your appetite and make you speculate . |
| 15 | It was pointed out that candidates obtaining low marks in public examinations were demonstrating more of what they did not know than what they did know . |
| 16 | The terrified young Frenchman tried to answer Sharpe 's questions , but either he knew very little or else he was cleverly hiding what he did know . |
| 17 | What he did know was that Joe liked to be surrounded by young men . |