Example sentences of "did not know [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One was new and had come instead of his uncle who was ill , but the guards would not let him in because they did not know him by sight and they nearly threw him into the ditch before they would even let him go home . |
| 2 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 3 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
| 4 | I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) . |
| 5 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 6 | Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth . |
| 7 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
| 8 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
| 9 | You see , I did n't know her for long and it was a privilege to meet her at all . |
| 10 | Did n't know her at all . |
| 11 | I did n't know her at all , other than to see her go into the house and out of the house . |
| 12 | ‘ Essentially they did n't know me from a hole in the ground when I first approached them and were willing to give me the benefit of the doubt . |
| 13 | Not only did this eventually solve the problem but , as Mrs. Dibble said , ‘ Please bear in mind that Lena did n't know me from Adam but she was so helpful and concerned , she took a chance on my honesty . ’ |
| 14 | And , I 've gone out , it was n't that was hacking my fence mind , erm , it was another boy , I did n't know him with a , and I went out and I , I and he said , I was n't . |
| 15 | Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked . |
| 16 | ‘ In fact , I did n't know him at all and he 'd managed to slip in and out of affairs before I even tumbled to the fact that he was playing around . |
| 17 | ‘ The thing is , ’ he murmured , sending her a smile that managed to be wicked and appealing all at the same time , ‘ I 'm so used to trusting Simon completely that I forgot you did n't know him at all . ’ |
| 18 | And every time he c used to come home on leave she used to cry , she did n't know him in uniform till he till he put his own clothes on . |
| 19 | And I was n't even talking when , I did n't know him from we were talking to him one night . |
| 20 | No , I did n't know him from bloody Adam ! |
| 21 | I had n't seen you for months I did n't know you for er |
| 22 | I did n't know it at the time , but he had come to prepare us for the move to England . |
| 23 | Though I did n't know it at the time , Lebanon was suffering only the hors d'oeuvre of the devil 's dinner . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I did n't know it at the time , but the telegraphist on the next set to mine-Lofty , he 's called — was on my wavelength too . |
| 25 | ‘ I did n't know it at the time . |
| 26 | I did n't know it at the time but a greater blow awaited me A few days later Mrs Rumney was on the phone again . |
| 27 | Of course I did n't know it at the time , but by then my mother and father 's marriage was showing cracks . |
| 28 | And a good example is Carl Perkins : we did n't know it until years later , but Carl and I were born and raised within fourteen miles of each other , and I 'm only about three , four months older than he is . |