Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] not know [det] " in BNC.

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1 I did not know much of what had gone on .
2 I certainly agree that I would not be wholly confident of the conclusion about tunnelling if I did not know that rigorous calculations with the Schrödinger equation lead to the same conclusion .
3 I was not my parents ' child , but I did not know that then .
4 I did not know that , Yuan .
5 I did not know this during his lifetime , and used to think him wanting in originality because his mind was absorbed in the mathematical world . ’
6 I did not know this , ’ murmured Corbett .
7 I did not know this at the time .
8 Ramsay himself did not know this Ettrick Forest area so well as the main Middle and East Marches ; but from the route the usurper had taken from Moffat , it looked as though he was heading either for the mid-Tweed or Teviot dales — although he could have reached the former more easily by turning off in the Broughton area of Tweedsmuir .
9 Lord Taylor said that Kennedy and Mr Quinn , who did not know each other , were arrested separately for drunkenness and were in a cell known as the tank when the fatal injuries were inflicted .
10 Richard and Laura were among the few boat owners who did not know this .
11 She did not know much about it .
12 She did not know this was a defeated ‘ army ’ .
13 It came to her as a shock that , although she had an excellent opportunity to be acquainted with high school children through her son , she did not know any of his friends .
14 Someone with more experience of the rough and tumble of friendships , jealousies and animosities might have been able to dismiss Deana 's words as the unmotivated expressions of bitterness and jealousy that they were , but Belinda was inexperienced , and although she knew enough about Deana to be wary and distrustful she did not know enough to ignore her as fully as she should .
15 It was exhausting and she did not know enough to analyse each problem properly .
16 She had not known that weather like this existed .
17 We did not know each other .
18 If we did not know this before , we have learned it from the actions of parents in Dewsbury who , at the beginning of the school year 1987/8 , refused to allow their children to attend a local primary school that was predominantly Muslim .
19 We did not know any influential person in Parma who could help us , and certainly there was no one in Fontanellato .
20 I would like to have discovered what had become of Mr Graham , for although we had not known each other well , I would say we had got on on those occasions we had met .
21 If they did not know all of his plans , they would be placing themselves in great danger .
22 When Ross and Minton set off in August 1947 , stopping first in Paris where they obtained a passage to Ajaccio from the French Minister of Culture , Louis Joxe , they did not know each other well .
23 From across the street a man in a parked car watched him , but he did not know that .
24 In fact she was at that moment being put in her coffin at the workhouse , but he did not know that .
25 He himself had a beautiful voice , but he did not know all that amount of technique .
26 as if he did not know all this for himself , and was not endlessly wrestling , valiantly and incredulously , with the problem of his own chronic poverty !
27 He did not know many English women .
28 He had to have directions given to him which shows he did not know those parts .
29 This must be because he did not know any observations of it : Darwin was interested by every possible form of moral behaviour in animals , and if he had known of restrained fighting , he would have written about it .
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