Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] not [been] aware " in BNC.

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1 I had n't been aware of the dust in the convent garden .
2 It was as if she had n't been aware of the girl 's presence , but she said , ‘ Stay where you are , child .
3 ‘ Quit using those big words to impress people , ’ when she had n't been aware she was using big words .
4 As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family .
5 She had not told her son to keep away from the course because she had not been aware that he had gone that way .
6 Naseby , who had not been aware of making a joke , glared at Auguste .
7 No , they had n't been aware of anything untoward , not until , much later , the eunuch had come down and searched below deck inch by inch from bows to stern .
8 This had been good fortune , as they had not been aware that it was a ‘ protected ’ aircraft , but Carrington arranged in any case for the record of their flight to be blotted from the squadron 's sortie book .
9 Until this moment he had not been aware of his own anxiety throughout Elizabeth 's pregnancy .
10 For some time now he had not been aware of being followed , and he knew , too , that no one had searched his house in his absence .
11 He had deliberately laid them aside this time , though he had not been aware of any direct instruction from his heart to do so .
12 As a member of the Select Committee , I was extremely concerned when Mr. Rimington , Director General of the Health and Safety Executive , revealed in his evidence that he had not been aware of the restrictions that Lord Cullen felt had been placed upon him in respect of investigating labour relations .
13 He reiterated his position that he had not been aware of the clandestine funding .
14 He had not been aware of anything ‘ iffy ’ until they arrived in the Borders .
15 He had n't been aware of any recent marks but , then , he was n't very clever at noticing that kind of detail .
16 " Dinner 's getting cold , " she murmured , smiling at his startled reaction ; he had n't been aware that he 'd been staring .
17 I laughed sometimes when he chased intruders from the garden , but I wished he had n't been aware of the little cat , although I think he only wanted to frighten it away , not kill it .
18 She picked up a small statuette which he had n't been aware of before .
19 His backsliding into sloth had happened so slowly that he had n't been aware of it .
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