Example sentences of "[vb past] not know [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 9 | You can probably work out the rest if you did not know it already . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You did not know it yet ? |
| 12 | She did not know it well , only that it led to a clump of trees at the top called Beckwith 's Folly . |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't know her well . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't know her well , but — somehow one had got used to her . ’ |
| 15 | Alice Mair said : ‘ I did n't know her either . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | I did n't know her then only later . ’ |
| 18 | She used it with people who did n't know her very well . |
| 19 | Although of course I did n't know her very well or for very long . |
| 20 | ‘ So I did n't know her very well . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | If he did n't know her inside out . |
| 23 | We did n't know her so well as we think . |
| 24 | Did n't know her so well as you did . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , I did n't know her personally but the other night like , I think it was her that we seen on the Woodham Road . ’ |
| 26 | And it and this , the one , the last one was just after I left so I did n't know her , I knew her to look at but I did n't know her personally . |
| 27 | I was just a care assistant then , and I did n't know her too well at that time . |
| 28 | One minute she was enjoying it — oh , with a few protests thrown in , like she did n't know me well enough , she should n't be doing it , and so on — nothing serious . |
| 29 | It indicated that he did n't know me well — for which I was deeply grateful . |
| 30 | And that she she looked shocked , you know , she did n't did n't know me like , and er , well she was shocked , and then I said I said , right well we 'll have to get together and sort something out about stopping with her , and Pete said straight away . |