Example sentences of "did [not/n't] know [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We thus engage in cultural confrontations in which we suddenly perceive how our vision is clouded and distorted by hidden assumptions that we did not know we entertained . |
| 2 | They ‘ soldier on ’ , and not infrequently find coping strength and skill which they did not know they had . |
| 3 | And no , ’ she denied strenuously as she saw which way his mind was working , ‘ I did not know she lived here ! ’ |
| 4 | At that stage Brian , a member of the Harper 's Leisure Centre in Harpenden where Joanna is an aerobics teacher , did not know she had vanished , presumed kidnapped . |
| 5 | The new pleading , so far as relevant to the claim against the building society , constituted ( i ) a plea of non est factum based on the proposition that Mrs. Steed did not know she had been appointed attorney and did not know she was signing a transfer of the property ; ( ii ) a plea that the transaction effected by the transfer was not a sale and was not within the power conferred by the power of attorney . |
| 6 | Then Isabel saw Ellen 's stunned face and realised that her maid , at least , did not know she had spent the night alone . |
| 7 | Addressing the Boys ' Brigade that very Sunday , the Rev. Johnston McKay told them of the lady who , surprised by the sum raised for the clock she had given to be sold for church funds , exclaimed that she did not know she had so much to give . |
| 8 | Although she did not know he had sex with Miss A in a bathroom above his Harley Street surgery , she claimed she did not feel threatened by another of his affairs . |
| 9 | What he did not know he had got from his sister , his ally against their parents if in nothing else . |
| 10 | But in Harding v Price [ 1948 ] 1 All ER 283 it was held that if the driver did not know he had been involved in an accident the section did not apply . |
| 11 | Chief executive Mr Richard Sutherland said the partners at the practice did not know he had worked as a locum at Bolton Royal Infirmary and the doctor had not told the infirmary he was HIV positive . |
| 12 | With a sort of tragic turn of fate , she did not know he had a mad wife . |
| 13 | James Harris , writing in 1751 , saw that ‘ all Conversation passes between Particulars or Individuals ’ , and argued that when , at the formative stages of human language , a speaker met another whose name he did not know he addressed him by using ‘ , that is , Pointing , or Indication by the Finger or Hand , some traces of which are still to be observed as a part of that Action which naturally attends our speaking ’ . |
| 14 | Thus , Oedipus married Jocasta and knew he did ; he also married his mother and did not know he did . |
| 15 | I had not seen him smoke before , and did not know he did . |
| 16 | She waited , but without much hope , for Rupert to offer to run her home in the car they did not know he possessed . |
| 17 | ( I did not know you had scars , and I am glad I did not until now . |
| 18 | He says he did not know it had been . |
| 19 | ‘ I did not know it came from them ! ’ he muttered . |
| 20 | My ears were burning , and my left shin throbbed as if it did not know I had stopped walking . |
| 21 | He did not know I had read his notes and I did not confess I had , but he elaborated on what I had read , and I was convinced he had right on his side — if not prudence . |
| 22 | He assured Helen , ‘ I did not know I loved you so tenderly until this trial , sweetheart ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ Someone on the set who did n't know her asked if she really had been ill recently and I said no , she 's actually quite young and looks amazing underneath all that . |
| 24 | Andrew Hagans , who denies raping Mrs McGurk , says he only told police he did n't know her to protect her good name . |
| 25 | Well you did n't know her did you ? |
| 26 | ‘ Aah did n't know 'e 'd asked thi , ’ Annie answered in surprise . |
| 27 | I did n't know they flowered . |
| 28 | ‘ You mean you really did n't know they 'd left ? |
| 29 | Some of the men did n't know they 'd been out exercising . |
| 30 | And I did n't know they 'd done any extra days . |