Example sentences of "although [pers pn] [verb] not know " in BNC.

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1 Although I do not know Charles well , I am convinced that he is a gentleman . ’
2 I tried straw about two years ago , approx half a bale in a 1500 gallon pond , although I do not know if it was barley or wheat straw .
3 Although I did not know it , my encounter with Gladstone Murray and Ernie Bushnell in February was beginning to bear fruit , and my days as newspaperman cum radio programme director were numbered .
4 Southerton , writing under a byline , would probably have been able to speak his mind about the general atmosphere , although I did not know that his attitude to bodyline would be .
5 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 .
6 Alix , although she did not know it , was pregnant .
7 She knew , although she did not know for quite how long , she had been running aimlessly .
8 But suddenly the thought of her mama was painful to her , and to push it away she leaned back again , said , amusement plain in her voice , which , although she did not know it , surprised Neil Cochrane a little , ‘ Oh , I will be good , because in my present condition I can not be anything else , I fear . ’
9 And when she went down for a cup of tea , her mother mentioned casually that Parr had gone to Belfast , not to England as expected , although she did not know why .
10 COUNSEL : Turning now to another part of the same statement , although you do not know the magnitude of the forces , perhaps you can tell the Court what you meant when you used the words " from time to time " ?
11 Thus although we do not know how the DNA controls development , we are reasonably sure that it does carry almost all the information which has been produced by selection , and which is needed to control development .
12 Miracle in the figurative sense , since although we do not know how cells evolved , quite plausible scenarios have been proposed .
13 The observed maximal effect was reached in the fourth hour although we do not know whether secretion would still have been higher in the fifth or sixth hour .
14 Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% .
15 ‘ On 16 April we left Greenock on the old aircraft carrier ‘ Argus ’ with twenty-four Hurricanes , twenty-five pilots and an appropriate number of fitters and riggers for Gibraltar ( although we did not know our precise destination at the time , of course .
16 We tried to keep those as well , in memory of them , although we did not know which part of the year they had their twelve days . ’
17 Although we did not know it , we were the first white men he allowed into his home other than on business .
18 Financial markets yesterday naively expected something , although they did not know what , from Nigel Lawson , the Chancellor of the Exchequer .
19 The girls , although they did not know it , found her relaxing .
20 Before her marriage Anna had been taken up as one of the handful of pet Americans and now , although they did not know exactly what had happened , everybody in London sided with her .
21 Although they did not know the reason for my journey , they were far too sensitive to my feelings to bother me with questions .
22 For example , although they do not know it yet , EC taxpayers will probably end up paying $580m on a cut-price sale of 200,000 tonnes of butter to the Soviet Union which is currently being completed .
23 But although they do not know it , the fight is nearly over .
24 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 .
25 The farrier 's son would recognise spavin , splint and stringhalt in the living horse although he did not know their nature .
26 This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time .
27 Somehow he found himself in the street , walking , although he did not know where .
28 Although he did not know it , Roxie Farmer and her sister-in-law were having the bonfire they had promised themselves .
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