Example sentences of "did [not/n't] know the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
7 | Lexander did not know the word Junker . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | How could he bind himself , when he did not know the day or the hour when Isambard might come home ? |
10 | When he said he did not know the date of Adam 's return , Lewis Verne-Smith had not lied to the police . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Yet for many years most Europeans did not know the system existed and it was no substitute for full EMU . |
13 | I did not know the uncle well , but he knew my husband . |
14 | The driver did not know the colour of the man 's eyes . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Léonie insisted , watching the blade fall quickly through the bread , that she did not know the person 's name . |
17 | I did not know the name , but I guessed at once who she was . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
20 | No — I did not know the cat . |
21 | He found himself glad that he did not know the location of Surere 's hide-out . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Brenda Duffy , of Keir Hardie Crescent , South Bank , Middlesbrough , said she knew the witnesses but claimed she did not know the trial was going ahead . |
24 | You see , she did not know the driver . |
25 | He did not know the man 's name but was certain he had seen him before and believed he knew where he worked . |
26 | He did not know the man 's name but the face was familiar . |
27 | He talked about getting married — of course he did not know the man recognised him , although it is not far from Rostock , where he lived then . |
28 | All the available pathological material on these 81 patients was reviewed by one person with an international reputation in the pathology of inflammatory bowel disease who did not know the outcome of the operation . |
29 | Roland did not know the answer . |
30 | It was a question Marian had been expecting and which she had been asking herself but to which she did not know the answer . |