Example sentences of "[not/n't] know was [conj] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | What she did not know was that Moran , with his good looks and military fame , had once been king of these barn dances and now that he had neither youth nor fame would not take a lesser place . |
2 | What she could not know was that by refusing to deal with the Protestant threat until the crown matrimonial had been obtained , she would throw away the strongest card in her anti-Protestant hand before having a chance to play it . |
3 | What they did not know was that their legendary luck was about to run out . |
4 | What they did not know was that in ten years time , that beautiful picture was to be blighted by Britain 's first commercial nuclear power station . |
5 | What startled spectator did not know was that a chiropractor on the Olympic Staff had given him a spinal adjustment immediately after the accident . |
6 | What they did not know was that the examination of the diamonds had finished before midnight to the complete satisfaction of Zack and his accomplices . |
7 | What Arrhenius did not know was that there is a large amount of X-radiation washing about in space , and to this his hypothetical spores would certainly have been vulnerable . |
8 | What the ‘ teacher ’ volunteer did not know was that the whole experiment was a set-up and that the ‘ learner ’ was in fact a co-worker of Milgram 's . |
9 | What she did not know was that Freddie had two children by his other woman . |
10 | What he did not know was that the Government , by the next day , would be anxious to retreat from the formula , and that the miners ' executive , having dispersed itself from London , would give them all day in which to do so . |
11 | What that smarmy jock did not know was that a cousin of Proby , who is in insurance , had insured the grandstand disguised as a car — third party fire and theft . |
12 | What Mickey did not know was that Mrs Moon was so concerned about the loss of her pension book that she had offered £1,000,000 to anyone who found it ! |
13 | What I did not know was that Vivien Eliot was in the audience . |
14 | What she did not know was that it was not so much that the work was difficult , but that there was so very much of it , and all tiring . |
15 | And what she did not know was that she had even more lessons to learn — and that some of them might not be pleasant . |
16 | What she had not known was that in leaving home she would have to forfeit her four children . |
17 | What he did n't know was that the local authorities were taking a very different line . |
18 | What I did n't know was that a few months before we started to work together she had written a proposal to the Thai government to start a ‘ machine knitting project ’ in one of her districts . |
19 | What he did n't know was that the secret military satellite launched on the Columbia space shuttle in the summer of 1989 also had the capability of following the Citation . |
20 | What he did n't know was that the captives had already been moved over two thousand miles to the east . |
21 | What he did n't know was that Myeloski wanted to share his knowledge with the Englishman . |
22 | Only what Kate did n't know was that when that break came , Patrick would also be after the bloke . |
23 | What I did n't know was that this species , again in marked contrast to the Mbuna norm , is a precocious spawner , and one morning I discovered my by now 1.5″ female brooding . |
24 | ‘ What I did n't know was that the man was an insomniac . |
25 | To contemporary commentators like Fyvel , the only other section of the population who behaved in such a way were the homosexuals ; what he did n't know was that this pursuit of pleasure , and concentration on self , were exactly those traits that would become desirable , and eventually , socially acceptable , with the extraordinary success of Elvis Presley and the Teen age that followed . |
26 | What his masters did n't know was that when Coy had worked in Washington for six years as a junior military attache in the British Embassy , the DDI was one of the young Americans he had befriended . |
27 | What I did n't know was that I was the entertainment afterwards ! |
28 | What Geraci still did n't know was that Zen had no recent operational experience in Rome or anywhere else . |
29 | What outsiders did n't know was that Bowyer 's remarks had been based on his own fruitless attempts to sign a big name Catholic — Jim McFadden of Cliftonville . |
30 | Our Rally was just super — more people than before — But what they did n't know was that they had a treat in store : The National Display Team came for the afternoon To show their special item — we were all over the moon ! |