Example sentences of "they had [not/n't] known " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they had n't known that then , and if they had could not have known how much one day such postcards would have supported the story Adam was beginning to think he would tell . |
| 2 | St Matthew 's had liaised with the Refuge about Harry but they had n't known what to suggest . |
| 3 | He emphasized the surname slightly , knowing he was being unfair because they had n't known it during those first days when Bacci had sat by her bedside . |
| 4 | Except that they had n't known how bad . |
| 5 | They had n't known how to get through to her , and were happy to give support . |
| 6 | They had n't known her well at all , but for some inexplicable reason they seemed to take charge of the situation and to deal with it in a totally intuitive way . |
| 7 | They had n't known we were in NZ and we had n't known they were . |
| 8 | Eileen 's death had made the lot of them aware of depths in themselves and in each other that they had not known of before . |
| 9 | But other members said that they had not known of plans to attack Mr Reagan . |
| 10 | They had not known the result of the battle until now . |
| 11 | WHEN Stuart Surridge led Surrey to the County Championship in 1952 , his first season of captaincy , Wisden , in choosing him alongside Tom Graveney , Fred Trueman , David Sheppard and Harold Gimblett as a Cricketer of the year , captured his salient qualities in a sentence : ‘ Though not always free from criticism as regards tactics and the manner in which he handled the bowling , he brought to Surrey a spirit of consistent enterprise and aggression such as they had not known since the days of P. G. H. Fender 's captaincy 20-odd years previously . ’ |