Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] not know [adj] " 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 | He himself did not know then whether there was any such statement in existence and reference to ‘ privilege ’ was potentially misleading . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Richard and Laura were among the few boat owners who did not know this . |
12 | That paper was abstracted by someone who did not know Polish . |
13 | She had been secure , certain of her facts , her life built on the reality of the past , and now things were all tilted , wavering , with a man she did not know issuing orders that would take her towards a place she had no desire to visit . |
14 | She did not know much about it . |
15 | She did not know this was a defeated ‘ army ’ . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | It was exhausting and she did not know enough to analyse each problem properly . |
19 | We did not know each other . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | We did not know any influential person in Parma who could help us , and certainly there was no one in Fontanellato . |
22 | And Gaily took her quick reply for unwillingness , too , and decided that they did not know one another well enough yet to ask such questions , such casual , family questions , as between friends . |
23 | If they did not know all of his plans , they would be placing themselves in great danger . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | From across the street a man in a parked car watched him , but he did not know that . |
26 | In fact she was at that moment being put in her coffin at the workhouse , but he did not know that . |
27 | He himself had a beautiful voice , but he did not know all that amount of technique . |
28 | 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 ! |
29 | He did not know many English women . |
30 | He had to have directions given to him which shows he did not know those parts . |