Example sentences of "[adv] know was " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she did not know was that Moran , with his good looks and military fame , had once been king of these barn dances and now that he had neither youth nor fame would not take a lesser place . |
| 2 | What they did not know was Kylie 's principles now prevented her from even touching them . |
| 3 | What she could not know was that by refusing to deal with the Protestant threat until the crown matrimonial had been obtained , she would throw away the strongest card in her anti-Protestant hand before having a chance to play it . |
| 4 | What they did not know was that their legendary luck was about to run out . |
| 5 | What I did not know was that English soccer was televised in Algeria . |
| 6 | What they did not know was that in ten years time , that beautiful picture was to be blighted by Britain 's first commercial nuclear power station . |
| 7 | What startled spectator did not know was that a chiropractor on the Olympic Staff had given him a spinal adjustment immediately after the accident . |
| 8 | What they did not know was that the examination of the diamonds had finished before midnight to the complete satisfaction of Zack and his accomplices . |
| 9 | What Arrhenius did not know was that there is a large amount of X-radiation washing about in space , and to this his hypothetical spores would certainly have been vulnerable . |
| 10 | You may find a stream , a cave , a factory , a prison you did not know was there but which insists upon itself as a landmark . |
| 11 | But what the rest of the candidates did not know was that Pilger had already earmarked someone for the job — the man who had gatecrashed the capitalization-day party — Keith Sutton of the Wapping Post . |
| 12 | Empson 's criticism never looked merely talented , and it hit something you did not know was there . |
| 13 | What the ‘ teacher ’ volunteer did not know was that the whole experiment was a set-up and that the ‘ learner ’ was in fact a co-worker of Milgram 's . |
| 14 | What she did not know was that Freddie had two children by his other woman . |
| 15 | What he did not know was that the Government , by the next day , would be anxious to retreat from the formula , and that the miners ' executive , having dispersed itself from London , would give them all day in which to do so . |
| 16 | What he did not know was that Chemical had run into massive internal problems . |
| 17 | These things he barely understood , and lacking anybody to talk to , it was at lunchtime sitting before an eagle whose name he did not know was Minch that he began to see his way towards them . |
| 18 | What that smarmy jock did not know was that a cousin of Proby , who is in insurance , had insured the grandstand disguised as a car — third party fire and theft . |
| 19 | What Mickey did not know was that Mrs Moon was so concerned about the loss of her pension book that she had offered £1,000,000 to anyone who found it ! |
| 20 | The only one she did not know was Inspector Lane . |
| 21 | What I did not know was that Vivien Eliot was in the audience . |
| 22 | What she did not know was that it was not so much that the work was difficult , but that there was so very much of it , and all tiring . |
| 23 | And what she did not know was that she had even more lessons to learn — and that some of them might not be pleasant . |
| 24 | But what the man did not know was that Angel One had also encompassed a darker facet in his mastery of the martial arts , namely a knowledge of ninjutsu , the deadly art of the ancient Japanese assassins from the Clan of Death — the Ninja . |
| 25 | But what she did not know was what had happened to those interests — or to him — since Simon 's death , apart from the fact that Vitor had immediately retired from racing . |
| 26 | Best known was International Champion and Bundessieger and Worldsieger , Erno v Wellesweiler , an American champion . |
| 27 | The best known was Whittingham House , twenty miles from Edinburgh , described by an admiring nonresident as ‘ a little Jerusalem in Britain 's green and pleasant land ’ . |
| 28 | Among the representatives of the paramilitary organisations , the best known was Lieut.-Colonel E. H. Brush , CB , DSO , OBE , the commander of the Down Orange Welfare Volunteers . |
| 29 | Of Korean communists associated with Russia , the best known was Kim Il Sung but he had also been involved with the CCP . |
| 30 | Aranda and Olavide entertained ambitious schemes of state colonization , of which the best known was their partially successful attempt to settle German immigrants in a model colony of symmetrical plots along the brigand-infested road over the Sierra Morena . |