Example sentences of "[vb mod] not have known " in BNC.
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| 1 | Law Report : Jury should not have known of co-defendant 's guilty plea : Regina v Mattison — Court of Appeal ( Criminal Division ) ( Lord Justice Mustill , Mr Justice Nolan and Mr Justice Saville ) , 5 October 1989 |
| 2 | I should n't have known about that , should I ? |
| 3 | But erm the comradeship there , I mean you very often see chappies now I d know them from the Home Guard , but otherwise I should n't have known them . |
| 4 | I thought that Robert had covered his tracks well and then that it was inconceivable that Lili , who knew everything , should n't have known all that her husband did . |
| 5 | It struck her as odd , for example , that Turner , if he spent so much time on Chelsea Reach , should n't have known that a seagull always alights on the highest point . |
| 6 | Edward Thomas may not have known that he was also making an ecological point when he pinned down so precisely the atmosphere and feel of these places : |
| 7 | The first victim was found just after midnight in a shelter at the end of the Easthaven promenade , the local tart , incidentally , although he may not have known or cared . |
| 8 | The Chief Whip , Richard Ryder , should carry the can , even though he may not have known exactly what was being done by his people . |
| 9 | Although men of the day may not have known it , the Hundred Years War was effectively over . |
| 10 | Aung San may not have known which knife and fork to use when he dined at Government House but he had a sure grasp of the realities of power . |
| 11 | We may not have known that they lay beneath the surface of our lives . |
| 12 | ‘ Of course ’ he added , ‘ our Brit may not have known Miss Tuckey at all since Keyserling signed this photo to her . ’ |
| 13 | The SSR description should , where appropriate , restate any problems reported by the SPR to which it relates , since it is likely that the person who reported the original situation was not aware of the true cause , or may not have known of any related problems . |
| 14 | Proving ignorance of facts that one might or might not have known is impossible , unless one has been in a well-documented coma . |
| 15 | ‘ Rosengarten might not have known much about music , but he knew all about money — he could spend all day haggling over ten schillings . |
| 16 | He came and went so quickly that she might not have known it was him save for the flash of his yellow cravat under the gas-lamp . |
| 17 | I might not have known exactly what rationalism was but it was nevertheless deeply engrained in my picture of the world . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , of course Charles might not have known that Mrs Thrigg was actually in the house during the quarrel . |
| 19 | ‘ So you might not have known if the Rector was under any special strain ? ’ |
| 20 | The appeals court accepted that the law was ambiguous and that Nofziger might not have known that he was committing an illegal act . |
| 21 | ‘ But you could not have known it was us . ’ |
| 22 | Eliot borrowed from it for The Waste Land , thus making it permanently famous ; Pound could not have known of it in 1911 , but if he had then visited the Templars ' cavern-church in Aubeterre he could hardly have failed to remember it in the light of jessie Weston 's argument . |
| 23 | He had scarcely known Maggie , could not have known that he could not have chosen a better treat than this mysterious park , with its vast statues carved out of the living rock : the huge-mouthed cave with its mighty teeth , the vast stone giant , his shoulders visible through bushes a hundred yards away , half hidden in greenery ; and above all , the great carved stone dragon with its broken wings , and wild Chinese eyes . |
| 24 | Phoebe , in fairness , could not have known that the maths teacher , shamed in public , should take to hating Maggie with a spiteful glee , though she would probably not have cared if she had . |
| 25 | They could not have known whether it would be prejudicial to the administration of justice if the facts were made public . |
| 26 | The organisation of the celebrations on such a large scale was a major success for Pateman and although he could not have known it at the time he was in the final few months of his long and difficult years of service to the District and the WEA . |
| 27 | It was not too surprising , therefore , that one of the King , s former ministers , the Count of Lezay-Marnésia , should allow his daughter to become one of the Empress 's ladies , though he could not have known that his gesture would be immortalized , for she is one of those who figure in the famous painting by Winterhalter ( now in the Musée National du Chateau de Compiègne ) . |
| 28 | The Football League were finally swayed by the argument that because Chapman was absent from Leeds City at the time of the alleged illegal payments , he could not have known about them . |
| 29 | She could not have known how very distressing I had found the parting of mother and child ; how I had been almost haunted by the memory of that day , of the poignancy of a mother kissing her baby goodbye . |
| 30 | How steady this was to be I could not have known . |