Example sentences of "i did not know [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not know him . |
| 2 | ‘ Sir , I did not know him . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I did not know whom I might meet there , and cramped as I as I did not fancy my chances at running away if it came to a straight chase on a hard surface . |
| 5 | Yet I did not know which to trust : the splintered yet separately concrete vision of myself each man offered me which was the product of his necessary fantasy ; or the amorphous , difficult to establish whole self which struggled to say that his vision of me and mine through his , had distorted it . |
| 6 | Small numbers were imported into Europe years ago , but I did not know they were available again . |
| 7 | ‘ I did not know they were going . |
| 8 | I did not know what to do with it , why I was there . |
| 9 | I did not know what ‘ cinema ’ was , it was one of those wonderful and unimaginable pleasures like La Semaine de Suzette and its doll Bleuette , which the war had taken away . |
| 10 | I did not know what to say in reply , so I took his hands and held them beside my own , showing first the backs , then the palms , then measuring them one against the other , palm to palm — something the Japanese would often do in comparing their smaller , lighter hands with my grosser ones . |
| 11 | I did not know what it could be , but I tried to reassure her and went up the road to where the policeman lived . |
| 12 | I did not know what to do next . |
| 13 | I did not know what to do with the child . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I did not know what had happened to her after she left me . |
| 15 | I did not know what to say . |
| 16 | I did not know what to do or where to go , so I approached a very nice policeman , told him I was from the country and asked which gate I should use . |
| 17 | It can be more comfortable to say , ‘ I had to do it ’ , than ‘ I did not know what to do and then I decided … ’ |
| 18 | I did not know what to say or do at this moment but just said ‘ Thy will be done ’ . |
| 19 | As a complete beginner I did not know what to do . |
| 20 | I did not know what to say or do . |
| 21 | ‘ I said before the match I did not know what pressure was — well I do now . |
| 22 | Luckily I did not know what half the appliances were … ‘ |
| 23 | If I said , ‘ It looks blue ’ but otherwise seemed incapable of colour discrimination , of being able to respond differently , verbally and in other ways , to differently coloured things , and , particularly , of being able to tell when other blue things were present and when absent , then people would rightly suspect that I did not know what I was talking about , that my experience could not really be of its looking blue . |
| 24 | I did not know what to make of these people until , years later , I read the novels of François Mauriac . |
| 25 | ‘ Then , of course , I did not know what I was signing . ’ |
| 26 | I did not know what I should become . |
| 27 | I did not know what she was planning . |
| 28 | I was so young and foolish and I did not know what I was doing . ’ |
| 29 | I did not know what had been done beforehand , and what still required to be done , until Douglas handed over the papers to me on 12 September . |
| 30 | Mrs Murchie added : ’ I did not know what to do so I just kept talking to her until the ambulance arrived . |