Example sentences of "had not known [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He told her things she had not known about him — good things , acts of generosity — it came out that it was he who had got Simon on to my pictures , the Douanier and the Gris ; he had practically given them to him . |
| 3 | In all fairness , Tyler had not known about the child . |
| 4 | Barbara Coleman lived at the villa and she had not known about the cache . |
| 5 | Jim Lilico , principal environmental health officer for Darlington Council , said the authority was aware of the fly tipping on the British Rail owned land , but had not known about the dead animals . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Shultz swiftly put out word , through a spokesman , that he had not known at all . |
| 9 | He had not known at the time that they were officers of the law . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But other members said that they had not known of plans to attack Mr Reagan . |
| 13 | Until the past decade , however , the vast majority of specialists in the period had not known of her existence . |
| 14 | We discussed Sophie 's affairs : I discovered , in the process , some interesting sexual practices I had not known of before which she did not indulge in with her lovers , in order , as she put it , ‘ to keep something for Jack ’ . |
| 15 | Wrapped up in his own debauchery he had not known of her plight until recently . |
| 16 | He thought she had not known of his feelings , until the night of the receiving of new candidates into the Fiana , at which Fergus , as its head , must preside . |
| 17 | Like their Western counterparts , the Israeli government was evidently taken by surprise by the invasion of Kuwait and questions were raised later in the month as to why Mossad ( the country 's intelligence service ) had not known of Saddam 's intentions . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |