Example sentences of "[vb past] not know [pron] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Alexia did not know him well , he realised .
2 It might have been anybody , kissing her , and , besides , she did not know him well , if at all .
3 She did not know him now , did not recognise that steel thread of arrogant command .
4 I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east .
5 Rosalba baked special almond biscuits , hoops of crumbly nuts and fine sugar , intending to wrap some in coloured papers and offer them to Tommaso 's mother as a gift for the feast ; but could not , because , as she was about to set off , she realised that she did not know her well enough to call and give her a present .
6 But now ’ she thought that it was not that , but something worse ; Rachel , who had always known things , did not know them properly any more .
7 Rostov thought about Alexei 's behaviour and wondered if it was human nature for sons to hate their fathers , even when they did not know them very well .
8 He said said the Government was keeping interest rates high because it did not know what else to do .
9 Brian did not know what else to say .
10 On the other hand , she did not know what else to say , so she said nothing .
11 Also , none of us wanted to spend the rest of our lives there , even though we did not know what else there could be .
12 We all knew that the Repubblichini were tools of the Nazis , used as spies and as a police force ; but they did not know us well enough to denounce us as anti-Fascists .
13 She said that apart from MacQuillan and Barron she did not know who else had been allowed a complete list .
14 You can probably work out the rest if you did not know it already .
15 And here he was not many hours later sitting with Marcus Felstead in a relatively quiet comer of the clubhouse , twisting the guts out of him , though Marcus did not know it yet .
16 You did not know it yet ?
17 She did not know it well , only that it led to a clump of trees at the top called Beckwith 's Folly .
18 I never believed you did n't know something more real in your mind .
19 ‘ I did n't know her well .
20 ‘ I did n't know her well , but — somehow one had got used to her . ’
21 Alice Mair said : ‘ I did n't know her either .
22 ‘ I did n't know her then , ’ he said , repressively , uneasily conscious that he had given Francesca no thought at all that day and did n't much want to think about her now .
23 I did n't know her then only later . ’
24 She used it with people who did n't know her very well .
25 Although of course I did n't know her very well or for very long .
26 ‘ So I did n't know her very well .
27 ‘ If I knew I would n't be asking you , and if I did n't know her inside out I would have said she was worried about something . ’
28 If he did n't know her inside out .
29 We did n't know her so well as we think .
30 Did n't know her so well as you did .
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