Example sentences of "have [not/n't] know [adj] " in BNC.

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1 By contrast , the British extreme right wing has not known similar success in recent years .
2 I would like to have discovered what had become of Mr Graham , for although we had not known each other well , I would say we had got on on those occasions we had met .
3 The sideboard knocked the wall as he swung round and the noise groaned in the room that had not known such life since the night Francis Sutherland , drunk in front of weekend guests , told his wife , self-assured and aloof on the distant coast of the table , that she was a frigid bitch who needed seeing to and he did n't care who did it .
4 She had not known that weather like this existed .
5 Adam had not known these names , but later on Mary Gage had told him .
6 Robert had not known this .
7 I 've not known many burglars break into houses with alarms systems .
8 She had n't known that .
9 He had a right to be suspicious this time , but he had n't known that ; it had been an automatic reaction to her receiving a call .
10 And he had n't known one thing about it .
11 We were doing all right , actually getting to know one another as we had n't known each other in Seville . ’
12 Something that she had n't known much of , in this past year .
13 She had n't known this until one night , three years ago , when he had imbibed too liberally .
14 He had n't known this .
15 I have not known such kindness since I am in Paris . ’
16 Not that they have n't known each other usually for years , but such formality has its necessary place , for there are again the exceptions .
17 ‘ I know we have n't known each other long , but you 've got under my skin like no other woman I 've ever met .
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