Example sentences of "he had not known " in BNC.

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1 In evidence earlier this week Lord Aldington , 75 , formerly Brigadier Toby Lowe , who was chief of staff to General Sir Charles Keightley , commander of the British Army 's V Corps in Allied occupied Austria , said he had not known until 1979 what had happened happened to the Yugoslavs when they were handed over to the forces of Marshall Tito .
2 Royce 's seminars had acquainted Eliot with the second law of thermodynamics if he had not known it before .
3 Because , of course , this was his place , he knew it , he belonged , and there he had not known where to look or how to fold his hands .
4 Shultz swiftly put out word , through a spokesman , that he had not known at all .
5 He had not known at the time that they were officers of the law .
6 With the blow on his head , Anton saw stars : flashing , exploding in his eyes : blue and red and colours he had not known existed .
7 Hank tossed a packet over to him , and he had lit one before he realized that he had not known that his son smoked .
8 Harbison , of Horkesley Road , Colchester , said he had not known he was over the limit , and would not have driven if he had .
9 Her husband , poor man , often left her ‘ as if he had not known her , and left her alone amongst them , choose how she might ’ .
10 Thereupon , Anselm went off to spend the summer months in the hill village of Liberi above Capua , and here he found a renewed peace of mind and spirit which he had not known since his days as prior of Bec .
11 Further , as a result of his youth , he had not known the great days of English victories in France , although these had been concerned with the activities of his father , and he himself had been born in Bordeaux not long before his father had crossed to Spain to win his final victory .
12 If he had not known she had had a baby only a month before he would have wanted to make love to her , she was .
13 No one would have constructed them in the form they have if he had not known that at all costs he must , when it comes to experimental predictions , obtain those same results which the statistically interpreted Schrödinger equation seems to produce so economically and naturally .
14 Wrapped up in his own debauchery he had not known of her plight until recently .
15 It had been the confidence of ignorance , of course , but he had not known it then , for who at eighteen recognises such a thing ?
16 Share Tara ? said a small treacherous voice he had not known he possessed .
17 He could not remember a time when he had not known .
18 A few hours ago he had not known that she existed , now he was a licensed voyeur , authorized to meddle in her most intimate concerns .
19 This was certainly a strange case , but he had not known the Pitts and he saw plenty of messy deaths .
20 Paul Lane 's almost silent acceptance of the message told Coffin , if he had not known before , how deeply everyone felt the murder of Sergeant Henley .
21 Even if he had not known Aunt Emily himself at all well , he seemed to have an inkling of Alexandra 's feelings and he was , among all those condoling faces , the only one she felt comfortable with .
22 He had read and enjoyed her diary though there were things in it that he was sure he had not known at fourteen and that he felt , uneasily , were not quite suitable for her to know .
23 Frank claimed that he had not known that Gobie was running a prostitution service from Frank 's apartment on Capitol Hill and that he had dismissed him upon learning of it .
24 Charles Milhauser , of Cornell College , said he was delighted by the gift but saddened that he had not known Mrs Roberts .
25 Allan McKay 's father , a gas engineer , Ian McKay , 40 , told Mrs Paton that at the time his son disappeared he had not known of the existence of the quarry .
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