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 .
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