Example sentences of "did not know [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He could not interpret the hand gestures and did not know what the offworlder was thinking .
2 It 's no excuse that the salesman did not know what the customer planned to do with the recorder , even if it is labelled with a warning about not taping copyright records or films .
3 The captain did not know what the craft was carrying , though that was not unusual , and the line was under contract partly for its discretion .
4 She did not know what the message was : Lee in this state was no longer a lovelorn friend but a trauma .
5 The institutions did not know what the criteria or standards were , and the process of validation normally meant two or three visits to the institution — with the first visit being a learning process for the institution , to hear what the process was all about .
6 Out popped a very strange gentleman from this aircraft that I noticed had American markings , but I still did not know what the aircraft was , I had a vague idea but I was not sure .
7 At first Dinah did not understand ; the way he talked was strange to her , and in any case she did not know what the term meant .
8 We did not know what the future might hold and had to face the possibility that we may not see each other again .
9 In the 1980S , as the communications industries multiplied and expanded , and the number of policy-actors and centres of decision ( local and regional as well as national ( proliferated , it often appeared that the right hand did not know what the left was doing .
10 She did not know what the matter was but knew instinctively that this was the right thing to do .
11 Though he did not know it the San Antonio had turned tail and was even now on her way back to Spain , ‘ bearing a cargo of falsehood against Magellan ’ .
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