Example sentences of "did not know [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The father of a friend of mine who went to visit relatives in Paris told us that he did not know a word of French but spoke the Parmigiano dialect all the time and got on very well .
2 This part of the camp was in itself no more attractive than the part in which we lived , but the very fact that we did not live there , that we did not know every inch of its dusty ground , that normally we only saw it from the distance , gave it a charm of its own .
3 She did not know the Rifleman well , yet she thought he was by far the best-looking man on the Prince 's staff .
4 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 . ’
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Lexander did not know the word Junker .
11 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 .
12 How could he bind himself , when he did not know the day or the hour when Isambard might come home ?
13 But the Greeks were seldom in a position to check what the natives told them : they did not know the languages .
14 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 .
15 ‘ I did not know the circumstances . ’
16 When he said he did not know the date of Adam 's return , Lewis Verne-Smith had not lied to the police .
17 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 .
18 Yet for many years most Europeans did not know the system existed and it was no substitute for full EMU .
19 I did not know the uncle well , but he knew my husband .
20 We did not know the answers . ’
21 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 .
22 The driver did not know the colour of the man 's eyes .
23 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 .
24 Léonie insisted , watching the blade fall quickly through the bread , that she did not know the person 's name .
25 I did not know the name , but I guessed at once who she was .
26 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 .
27 ‘ 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 . ’
28 No — I did not know the cat .
29 He found himself glad that he did not know the location of Surere 's hide-out .
30 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 .
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