Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] not to know that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I should have noticed that the sand was all trampled but I was n't to know that the sandpit was the personal stamping ground of a large bull reindeer . |
| 2 | She was n't to know that he 'd been posted to Berlin . |
| 3 | She was not to know that , once at sea , they would only be allowed on deck at certain times , like dogs let out to exercise . |
| 4 | Her will included legacies of twenty pounds each to her Frome cousins , Mary and Sarah , the daughters of her uncle John Titford ; she was not to know that Mary would die just two months before she did , though Sarah , as we shall see , survived for another five years , long enough to bless the generosity of her Surrey cousin . |
| 5 | She was not to know that Tina , sticking to her principles , had long ago slept with her cousin Jarvis . |
| 6 | But she was not to know that he had had this desire , and went into the house with head bent , feeling that she had been a failure . |
| 7 | If in addition promises were made , as it seems they were , of helping to boost wage rates , and if particular grievances were also thrown into the package , it is not necessarily paradoxical that women should have agreed both to the five-year ban on entry ( they were not to know that it would really be a permanent one ) and to the assigning of all new machines to men . |
| 8 | It was a fool 's paradise , but they were n't to know that , and it was hardly surprising that few worried much about the maintenance of British-financed production . |
| 9 | Poor old Steven : he was n't to know that , while he had been busy trying to make grown-up movies , the trendiest kids had gone off Michael Jackson and the Ninja Turtles and transferred their allegiance to metal-headed dipsticks such as Bill and Ted , or Wayne and Garth from Wayne 's World , the year 's hotsiest hit-flick ( which comes down your way in May ) . |
| 10 | He was n't to know that the journalist he was expecting had opted to take the longer route overland rather than to fly out on Thursday . |
| 11 | ( He was not to know that Charles Olson , after next to no apprenticeship at all , would recklessly try to emulate him . ) |
| 12 | He was not to know that because she never spoke about her feelings , she could not express them on demand . |
| 13 | He was not to know that a real fear was beginning to overwhelm Sally-Anne . |
| 14 | He was not to know that those pictures appalled her , that she had never imagined herself capable of such thoughts . |