Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] not know [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of what or to whom , Kathleen did not know and dared not ask . |
| 2 | Standing before her future mistress , Millie did not know whether or not to dip her knee . |
| 3 | Odd-Knut did not know if he would break trail . |
| 4 | At first , Theda did not know whether she was more angry with Lady Merchiston for loaning her out like this , or with Mrs Rosalia Alderley for making such an impertinent request . |
| 5 | Endill did not know if he wanted to be hard but was too tired to argue . |
| 6 | Tom did not know if he would have them . |
| 7 | Adam did not know whether to be glad or sorry he had not obtained an English newspaper while away . |
| 8 | Police in Sunderland do not know if the badly decomposed remains found in the River Wear are male or female . |
| 9 | Mr. Burgess did not know that in fact the deceased 's investments were worth about £105,000 . |
| 10 | JUNIOR education minister William Shelton did not know whether he was coming or going last week when he gave an experimental communications system known as Project Universe its first public airing . |
| 11 | Tommy and Iain do not know that the cheque will never come . |
| 12 | Isabella does not know that the Duke had played the role of the Friar instructing her in the foiling of Angelo 's plots , and so , lacking any independent evidence , she realizes how feeble her case must seem ; yet she still affirms that But the Duke , behaving as Angelo had predicted , and as he would have to behave if he had no evidence , sweeps aside her complaint , leaving her with only heaven to appeal to : The evil is indeed finally ‘ unfolded ’ , not by heaven but by the Duke , although Angelo ( as if recalling that passage in Luke 's gospel ) ascribes divine omniscience to him : But the Duke has only used deception and disguise , legitimately , as Shakespeare makes him say : ‘ Craft against vice I must apply ’ ( III.ii.270 ) . |
| 13 | ( Alice did not know if this was the right way to speak to a mouse . |
| 14 | He subsequently abandoned the forgery allegation and amended his counterclaim to plead ( i ) non est factum on the grounds that Mrs. Steed did not know that she had been appointed attorney and was not aware that she was signing a transfer of the property ; and ( ii ) that the transaction effected by the transfer was not a sale and was not within the power conferred by the power of attorney . |
| 15 | In previous work , the investigator has developed a means to investigate children 's understanding of recursive beliefs in story characters , that is , whether they can understand that John does not know that Mary knows where the ice cream van is . |