Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [not/n't] known " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gloria had gone in and a person at a window had waved once but Dot had n't known if it was him . |
| 2 | Benny had n't known whether to envy it or be sorry for it . |
| 3 | It would be easier now his mother was dead — though Clemence had n't known that when she wrote . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No , even Ebert had n't known he was bringing two experts with him . |
| 9 | They had been close , Mrs. Fanshawe and Mrs. Browne , and there was n't much about the Fanshawes Mrs. Browne had n't known . |
| 10 | Robert had not known this . |
| 11 | In all fairness , Tyler had not known about the child . |
| 12 | Paige had not known how sensual an experience having her hair combed could be . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Adam had not known these names , but later on Mary Gage had told him . |
| 17 | Adam had not known he carried within his mind a directory of the forbidden . |
| 18 | Montgomery had n't known , but he nodded all the same . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | All the time , right up till then and a little beyond , Mary had n't known what was going on . |
| 21 | And if Barbara Coleman had not known it appeared unlikely that Sabine Jourdain had . |
| 22 | Susan had n't known how she was being used . |
| 23 | During lunch they talked mainly of Celia 's father ; she soon realized that Fowler-Troon had not known him well . |
| 24 | That evening revealed a petulance Hugh Paddick had not known before , but which would become quite familiar to the few Williams intimates . |
| 25 | With a strength Isabel had not known she possessed she had beaten back panic and calmly taken down the rushlight , dividing the rushes into smaller bundles to conserve the light . |
| 26 | Practically torn apart by conflicting loyalties — and with Ross refusing to accept the idea that she might , somehow , be able to divide her life between the two continents — Laura had n't known what to do . |
| 27 | The equally obvious fact that she had clearly felt he 'd married well beneath him — and into a family of which she had already disapproved — was something that Laura had n't known how to deal with . |
| 28 | Always used to receiving admiring glances from men , Laura had n't known whether to be pleased or not when the doctor had completely ignored her — clearly having eyes only for Julie . |
| 29 | Ashley had not known the debris existed and watched in amazement as one refuse skip after another was filled . |
| 30 | He had enclosed his Marylebone Road address , which Dinah had not known . |