Example sentences of "[vb past] [not/n't] know the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also found ‘ lanisticola ’ more aggressive — that being relative , as my real ‘ livingstonii ’ seemed not to know the meaning of the word . |
| 2 | She did not know the Rifleman well , yet she thought he was by far the best-looking man on the Prince 's staff . |
| 3 | Chief Insp John McLean , deputy sub division officer at Saracen police office , said : ‘ Nobody will have the excuse after 1 March that they did not know the campaign was under way . ’ |
| 4 | At just the same time George Stephenson also invented a safety-lamp very like Davy 's ; but he did not know the principle on which Davy had designed his , and his lamp was the fruit of practice , of trial and error , guided by the general idea of restricting the supply of gas-laden air . |
| 5 | The young man admitted in due course , when we had been driving for an hour , that he did not know the way and was totally lost . |
| 6 | Here they were hammering with a monotonous beat , the voices high but soft , small boys staring at her as she looked at them in panic , realising she did not know the way out of the maze of streets and could not ask . |
| 7 | Yeo Davis 's business was concerned with representing people who did not know the ropes , or even that there were any ropes ; Hutton 's predominantly with fellow professionals in other fields who just wanted the best and swiftest way through . |
| 8 | This leaves us to assume that the beneficiary ought to pay in the event that ( iii ) it could not be shown that the testator , had he known the land was pledged , would have left something else or ( iv ) the testator did not know the land was pledged . |
| 9 | Lexander did not know the word Junker . |
| 10 | If they did not know the word less , their responses followed a pattern of chance responding ; if they did know it , they got it right nearly all the time . |
| 11 | How could he bind himself , when he did not know the day or the hour when Isambard might come home ? |
| 12 | But the Greeks were seldom in a position to check what the natives told them : they did not know the languages . |
| 13 | The actor just did not know the lines , and , though he could manage the exchanges of dialogue quite well , every time he came to a big speech , he would dry . |
| 14 | ‘ I did not know the circumstances . ’ |
| 15 | When he said he did not know the date of Adam 's return , Lewis Verne-Smith had not lied to the police . |
| 16 | I was glad then that he did not know the subject of the talk I had just given at the conference — the possibility that space-time was finite but had no boundary , which means that it had no beginning , no moment of Creation . |
| 17 | Yet for many years most Europeans did not know the system existed and it was no substitute for full EMU . |
| 18 | I did not know the uncle well , but he knew my husband . |
| 19 | We did not know the answers . ’ |
| 20 | Certainly Premack 's findings are under this cloud since Sarah 's performance suffered considerably when in the presence of a trainer who did not know the answers that she was supposed to give , and it would seem natural to expect that the more broadbrush methods of the gestural teaching would be equally suspect . |
| 21 | The driver did not know the colour of the man 's eyes . |
| 22 | But she had no wish to go further into the pseudo-science , and did not know the hour of her birth anyway — only that she had Sol in Cancer . |
| 23 | Léonie insisted , watching the blade fall quickly through the bread , that she did not know the person 's name . |
| 24 | I did not know the name , but I guessed at once who she was . |
| 25 | The federation had asked to meet the council after a local sample survey showed that three out of five school children did not know the name of their townland . |
| 26 | ‘ Central Office did not know the name of the child until Wednesday morning when we read it first in the Independent and subsequently in the Daily Express . ’ |
| 27 | No — I did not know the cat . |
| 28 | He found himself glad that he did not know the location of Surere 's hide-out . |
| 29 | the first part of the competition consisted of 24 targets at known distances , while the second day featured another 24 targets but this time the competitors did not know the distances . |
| 30 | The core group who organised the conference were basic grade workers in the department who did not know the processes by which policy change is effected . |