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Example sentences of "[noun] had [not/n't] known " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Dot had n't known what it meant .
2	Part of the problem is that as most women who had attended single-sex schools had not known anything else , their comments will focus on the school itself rather than the fact of its being single-sex .
3	Gloria had gone in and a person at a window had waved once but Dot had n't known if it was him .
4	Benny had n't known whether to envy it or be sorry for it .
5	It would be easier now his mother was dead — though Clemence had n't known that when she wrote .
6	A FATAL accident inquiry at Ayr into the deaths of two schoolboy friends who drowned in a flooded quarry yesterday heard that the boys ’ parents had not known of the dangers .
7	Eve had n't known that Mr Burns in the hardware shop was inclined to take to the drink or that Dr Johnson had a very bad temper and was heard shouting about God never putting a mouth into the world that he did n't feed .
8	Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen .
9	At eight Maggie had not known that her grandmother was famous , but she had seen that people had something in their manner when they looked at Rachel ; later she learned that something was respect .
10	Topaz had n't known what true contentment was until that moment .
11	Mr Rampton suggested if Lord Aldington had not known what would happen to the Yugoslavs , he was the only person in his corps who did not .
12	If the boy had not known that before , let it be said now .
13	No , even Ebert had n't known he was bringing two experts with him .
14	They had been close , Mrs. Fanshawe and Mrs. Browne , and there was n't much about the Fanshawes Mrs. Browne had n't known .
15	Until the past decade , however , the vast majority of specialists in the period had not known of her existence .
16	Robert had not known this .
17	He said it had been vital to keep Operation Beehive secret from the Soviets and the Yugoslavs , so many people within V Corps had not known about it .
18	In all fairness , Tyler had not known about the child .
19	Paige had not known how sensual an experience having her hair combed could be .
20	Albert , she had remarked — Rose had n't known Twitch even had a Christian name — is like pummy stone , whereas Naseby ( who had had a definite smirk on his face when he saw her new hat ) is like Irritating Plaster , he causes irruptions .
21	Sir John Donaldson defended himself in a public speech saying that the court had not known that the assets had been earmarked for a political or any other purpose .
22	‘ I think they just say she was beautiful , ’ said this new Xanthe Miranda had not known before , this precocious , sharp-witted little girl in the chic outfit .
23	They had talked about words during that drive , well , place-names really , with particular reference to the villages that were called Roding after the river : High Roding , Berners Roding , Margaret Roding , and Rufus told him they were pronounced Roothing from the old Danish , which Adam had n't known before .
24	Adam had not known these names , but later on Mary Gage had told him .
25	Adam had not known he carried within his mind a directory of the forbidden .
26	Montgomery had n't known , but he nodded all the same .
27	She had been crying , for the money Eddie earned was precious , and McAllister had not known what to say , only that she was sorry and would inform Dr Neil when he had returned .
28	All the time , right up till then and a little beyond , Mary had n't known what was going on .
29	And if Barbara Coleman had not known it appeared unlikely that Sabine Jourdain had .
30	* Another arrangement of the sentence which carries a presupposition is the COUNTERFACTUAL CONDITIONAL : " if X had/had n't been the case , then Y " : If Renaissance dramatists had not known Seneca , they would have been less interested in blood .