Example sentences of "[not/n't] to know [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to know that is to be ignorant of the whole point of the affirmation . |
| 2 | It had come to harm enough , but he was not to know that . |
| 3 | ‘ Shame on you , ’ came the bantering reply , ‘ not to know one of your own local poets . |
| 4 | He stresses that ‘ our business here is not to know all things , but those which concern our conduct ’ . |
| 5 | To watch them pretending not to know all the things about me which I take not the least trouble to conceal . |
| 6 | Paul ‘ determined not to know any thing … save Jesus Christ and him crucified . ’ ( 1 Corinthians 2 v. 2 ) . |
| 7 | The blood on my face was not mine — though she was not to know this . |
| 8 | Agnes absorbed that and found that she believed it : Mo had been thirty years in intelligence work which trains up a determination not to know some things quite as strong as the desire to know others . |
| 9 | In the week before the race , she became embroiled in a controversy over the skill of her opponent , the American Leigh Weiss , who had also steered international women 's crews but who was deemed not to know enough of the Boat Race course on London 's tideway . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I was n't to know that , was I ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We got beaten today by the slow early pace which made her too keen and , in hindsight , a pacemaker would have helped , but we were n't to know that . |
| 12 | As it happens , blackmail is a little out of my line , but she was n't to know that . |
| 13 | But Fen was n't to know that . |
| 14 | Not that Travis , who was n't interested in her anyway , would do anything but agree — though Naylor was n't to know that . |
| 15 | The softer her voice became , the greater the danger , but Nigel was n't to know this . |
| 16 | ‘ You were n't to know this would happen , ’ she cried . |
| 17 | Though he was n't to know this , it was a gesture of defiance that was slowly becoming a sexual need . |