Example sentences of "[noun sg] did [adv] know [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dot did not know what Psalms were , but she felt she was beginning to understand about quiet and gentle greenness because she saw it all around her . |
| 2 | Dot did n't know what a banana tasted like , though she 'd heard Mrs Parvis talk about them often enough . |
| 3 | Dot did n't know what her convalescence was . |
| 4 | Dot did n't know what fasting was . |
| 5 | Dot did n't know what a rigger was . |
| 6 | Dot did n't know what an asylum was . |
| 7 | Chief executive Mr Richard Sutherland said the partners at the practice did not know he had worked as a locum at Bolton Royal Infirmary and the doctor had not told the infirmary he was HIV positive . |
| 8 | Yet , according to French sources , when François Mitterrand complained about the tone of Mr Bartholomew 's warnings at his recent meeting with President Bush on Martinique , the American president did not know what had been going on . |
| 9 | Half the other people on the interviewing committee did n't know what it was . |
| 10 | well I mean we had one girl did n't know what she was going about , but , you know , women do n't have all the work to do in the house and her dad helps at weekends and I said well who made the decision in the first place to do what |
| 11 | ‘ The girl did n't know I was in my room when she was changing the linen . |
| 12 | cos Chris off , so the apprentice girl did n't know anything . |
| 13 | If a child did not know what to make of this question Piaget would prompt him : ‘ When you walk , you walk with feet ; well then , when you think , what do you think with ? ’ |
| 14 | er , they were meeting and the lad who was supposed to be at the meeting did n't know what they 'd come to decide on . |
| 15 | Obviously these privately owned buses hold no truck with The Knowledge , because our lad did n't know his St Pancreas from his Bell-Bow . |
| 16 | In all probability , the author did not know who was responsible for the original compilation : he merely assumed that legislation was an appropriate activity for the founder of a kingdom . |
| 17 | Papa did n't know what to do , and then he got talking to some of his cronies , and he decided on a Grand Scheme . |
| 18 | He died so quickly that Viktor did n't know he 'd gone . |
| 19 | The wife did n't know what to make of Yvonne at all . |
| 20 | Little Turtle did n't know what he was talking about . |
| 21 | The captain did not know what the craft was carrying , though that was not unusual , and the line was under contract partly for its discretion . |
| 22 | So my father did n't know what to do , because he 'd only just started on his own , so he was tight for money as well was n't he . |
| 23 | His face had been battered so badly , his father did n't know it was his own son until he squeezed his hand and muttered ’ Dad . ’ |
| 24 | Yet in one the father did not know what was going on , and was robbed of all dignity . |
| 25 | The jeweller did n't know what it was my father showed him . |
| 26 | John Coffin did not know he was on the wrong side yet , not having so far met Rose Hilaire , but he too realized that there might be a fight ahead . |
| 27 | At this point in the proceedings I was offered a choice ; either I would have to undergo a major operation , knowing that the surgeon did not know what was wrong , or I could go into a residential physiotherapy hospital , Farnhan Park , one of the largest of its kind in England . |
| 28 | She 'd collected her wedding dress , and it was n't what she wanted ; it did n't fit properly , and the woman in Drogheda who had made it had gone away on holiday , and her assistant did n't know anything about it , and was n't a seamstress , so now what the hell was she supposed to do ? |
| 29 | No , no , no none of that , union did n't know we were paying . |
| 30 | Yet the 16-year-old English schools cross-country international did n't know he was eligible to run until 24 hours before the event . |