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

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1 She did not know the Rifleman well , yet she thought he was by far the best-looking man on the Prince 's staff .
2 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 . ’
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Lexander did not know the word Junker .
9 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 .
10 How could he bind himself , when he did not know the day or the hour when Isambard might come home ?
11 But the Greeks were seldom in a position to check what the natives told them : they did not know the languages .
12 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 .
13 ‘ I did not know the circumstances . ’
14 When he said he did not know the date of Adam 's return , Lewis Verne-Smith had not lied to the police .
15 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 .
16 Yet for many years most Europeans did not know the system existed and it was no substitute for full EMU .
17 I did not know the uncle well , but he knew my husband .
18 We did not know the answers . ’
19 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 .
20 The driver did not know the colour of the man 's eyes .
21 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 .
22 Léonie insisted , watching the blade fall quickly through the bread , that she did not know the person 's name .
23 I did not know the name , but I guessed at once who she was .
24 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 .
25 ‘ 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 . ’
26 No — I did not know the cat .
27 He found himself glad that he did not know the location of Surere 's hide-out .
28 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 .
29 The core group who organised the conference were basic grade workers in the department who did not know the processes by which policy change is effected .
30 He had not read the Tower Commission 's report , evidently ; did not know that McFarlane had pleaded guilty to misdemeanours ; did not know the substance of the charges against Poindexter ; had not altered in any particular the mythology created when the edifice had first crashed down , in November 1986 .
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