Example sentences of "had [not/n't] know [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 She had not known they started clear , clear of expression , transparent and mobile .
2 Adam had not known he carried within his mind a directory of the forbidden .
3 Share Tara ? said a small treacherous voice he had not known he possessed .
4 ‘ Witch , ’ he told her , his face relaxed , boyish , showing the easy charm that she had not known he possessed while they had been so busy provoking each other .
5 And if Barbara Coleman had not known it appeared unlikely that Sabine Jourdain had .
6 Her voice sounded strange to her ; weak and croaking , but at the same time filled with a passion she had not known she felt .
7 She touched him with a hunger she had not known she harboured inside her .
8 If he had not known she had had a baby only a month before he would have wanted to make love to her , she was .
9 With a strength Isabel had not known she possessed she had beaten back panic and calmly taken down the rushlight , dividing the rushes into smaller bundles to conserve the light .
10 Discovering strength and skills she had n't known she possessed , Polly sailed Seawitch away from the wave-lashed rocky coast and out into the safety of deeper water .
11 With a strength she had n't known she possessed she caught a handful of hair and dragged his head up .
12 I had n't known she did , but apparently she could only be persuaded when she was in her cups , which was a rare occurrence .
13 It was perfectly true , but she had n't known he knew .
14 It was a memory he had n't known he had , and even now he knew very little about it beyond the fact that it involved him and his father and a railway tunnel .
15 The crowd came together again and hid Filmer and his flower and I felt the tension in my muscles subside , and realized I had n't known I had tensed them .
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