Example sentences of "do [adv] know [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 We have also been grateful for the messages of sympathy from people who did not know Paul but were moved by the manner of his death .
2 But Exodus 1.8 read , ‘ Now there arose a new king over Egypt , who did not know Joseph , ’ and then began the story of Egyptian brutality and oppression to which we have already referred , and after that we are back with the tales of the Israelites ' stubborn complaining in the wilderness with which we have become so familiar .
3 I did not know Manchester .
4 She did not know Vanessa well enough to gauge whether she was one of those wives who deliberately peel their husbands away from former friends .
5 He was both angered and grieved that he did not know Liza 's whereabouts , nor the sex of her offspring .
6 I did not know Liverpool .
7 And you know , for you and I , so often , imagine , think back to the time when you did not know Jesus Christ how easy it was to blame God for this and for that , if there 's a God of love in heaven why does n't he do something about it ?
8 ‘ I did not know Andrée was here ! ’
9 You did not know Ipuky before ? ’
10 I did not know England .
11 Mrs Turpin did not know Bernard of Clairvaux 's observation , that the first step into pride is comparison , and the subsequent steps lead into a self-focused life .
12 ‘ You say you did not know Nona Pitt well .
13 ‘ And you did not know Terry Place was there ? ’
14 She did not know Edouard very well .
15 He did not know Dinah 's handwriting ; there was so much he did not know about her , he told himself , tearing the envelope open urgently .
16 Although he was one of her guests , Lady Blemley did not know Mr Appin well .
17 He did not know Taheb well enough to trust her yet .
18 The caller did not know Tim Wallis well , but knew that he spoke with an American accent .
19 , writes : AMERICAN friends saw the marker stone of the centre of England in Warwickshire and confessed they did not know U.S.A. 's centre .
20 The doctor , a man named Champney , realised he could do no more for her but , on hearing of the stranger ( Mary Ashley did not know Tawell , but described him as a Quaker ) , he set out to trace him .
21 I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) .
22 ‘ You did not know Russell .
23 Last night a Liverpool spokeswoman said she did not know Souness 's precise plans for today .
24 Indeed , if one did not know Cruyff better , one might have mistaken for gloom the mood in which he unsmilingly accepted his reprieve .
25 The doubts of these two people were entirely different , but they were both doubting God for the same reason : they did not know God as he really is .
26 Perhaps they wish to share their grief , but if I did not know Uncle Ted , then it becomes less easy to sympathise .
27 Pray that the missionary might truly have God 's heart for those who do not know Jesus .
28 Finally , they said slowly to him , ‘ You do not know Alexander Atkins .
29 Of particular interest to Society members even those far afield who perhaps do not know B.C. very well , if at all , is the way it illustrates the influence the Railway had on the community at that time .
30 I believe that it will be updated as the new computer takes on additional information , but when and at exactly what point is a matter on which I shall have to get back to the hon. Gentleman because I do not know ACPO 's plans .
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