Example sentences of "[coord] did [adv] know " in BNC.

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1 Noreen did n't know whether the older woman did n't want to continue , or did n't know how to .
2 Anyone who 'd paid money for their dog , or did n't know where it had been , should take it to the god in Lāmri to be blessed and cured : and if anyone had been bitten recently , or had been in contact with the rabid dog , they too should see that god .
3 He knew that I had some experience , but I think he was trying to make me relax and , perhaps , find out just how much I did or did n't know .
4 The Captain had no illusions about being able to guess what Demontis knew or did n't know .
5 Or did n't know . ’
6 er we both met him to try and make a plea to him to try and change his views and it 's fair to say that he does n't know or did n't know what was going on in his own backyard and John Patten I feel is the same as is the rest of the M P's in the Oxfordshire area .
7 It is just that , until recently , we never thought , or did not know how , to ask .
8 Impossible to judge whether she knew or did not know whatever it was that Francis had been told , and there was nothing to be gained by turning the screw too hard .
9 An act carried out by a partner in the usual course of the business of the firm will be binding on the firm notwithstanding that the partner concerned lacked the necessary authority unless the third party knew of the limitation to that partner 's authority or did not know or believe him to be a partner .
10 Thus , Oedipus married Jocasta and knew he did ; he also married his mother and did not know he did .
11 I had an awful pain in my chest and did not know whether it was a coronary or indigestion .
12 He was too tired to go to the window again , and did not know now what he wanted to see on the other side of the glass .
13 Marcus still stood looking down , almost as if he were now puzzled and did not know what to do next .
14 With the minimum of props and the only gesture being a raised paw , he asked for the money for a cup of coffee , guv , sported a patch over one eye concealing a wound sustained in the service of his country , at the same time dragging a wooden leg fitted during the retreat from Moscow while maintaining that he had a bitch and five pups to support and did not know where his next meal was coming from .
15 They had lost all sense of time and did not know how long their night had lasted , whether dawn was near or far .
16 If I did not trust and live his fantasy image of myself I could no longer reach out to distorted splinters and did not know where to begin to look for myself .
17 They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach .
18 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 .
19 Mr Maxmilian Frizzell had never read a book since leaving school and did not know who Lawrence was , so he put down the newspaper and took up the Car Dealer and Garageman with what dignity he could muster .
20 Dorothy was puzzled and did not know what to say , so she smiled and then started up the path to the back door , when he called her back .
21 He was bewildered and did not know what to do .
22 He said that he felt it was unfair that his wife should reprimand Jenny as she was so young and did not know how to share properly yet .
23 I had not seen him smoke before , and did not know he did .
24 Evidence from the period is confused but it is likely that Newcomen worked independently and did not know of the ideas of Papin and Savery .
25 The new pleading , so far as relevant to the claim against the building society , constituted ( i ) a plea of non est factum based on the proposition that Mrs. Steed did not know she had been appointed attorney and did not know she was signing a transfer of the property ; ( ii ) a plea that the transaction effected by the transfer was not a sale and was not within the power conferred by the power of attorney .
26 Alexander , unusually lively after a meal , proposed a walk , and did not know if he was glad or sorry when only Frederica accepted .
27 Creggan was more afraid than he could ever remember , and did not know where to go and what to do .
28 The seamen could not see us and did not know how many men they were fighting .
29 But he had already said something similar to Burun , and did not know which of his words had been repeated verbatim .
30 He could not interpret the hand gestures and did not know what the offworlder was thinking .
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