Example sentences of "[conj] she did not know " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she did not know he had sex with Miss A in a bathroom above his Harley Street surgery , she claimed she did not feel threatened by another of his affairs . |
| 2 | Alix , although she did not know it , was pregnant . |
| 3 | She knew , although she did not know for quite how long , she had been running aimlessly . |
| 4 | But suddenly the thought of her mama was painful to her , and to push it away she leaned back again , said , amusement plain in her voice , which , although she did not know it , surprised Neil Cochrane a little , ‘ Oh , I will be good , because in my present condition I can not be anything else , I fear . ’ |
| 5 | And when she went down for a cup of tea , her mother mentioned casually that Parr had gone to Belfast , not to England as expected , although she did not know why . |
| 6 | In the naked fear of falling in a space so huge that she did not know whether she was falling up or down , inward or outward , she met a fear so great that it burned away forever all the other fears . |
| 7 | When Diana became patron of the Welsh National Opera , one of the original five patronages she took on when she became Princess of Wales , she confessed that she did not know very much about opera — and that her principal love was ballet . |
| 8 | The clash came as Mr Kinnock exploited the apparent contradiction between Mrs Thatcher 's claim that she did not know why Mr Lawson resigned and the former Chancellor 's assertion in last Sunday 's Walden interview that he had made it quite clear to the Prime Minister that Sir Alan Walter 's continued presence as her economic adviser was the only issue . |
| 9 | Sometimes she said simply that she did not know when he would be back and dropped the phone . |
| 10 | Dorothea realised that she did not know how old Alida was but it must be around her own age . |
| 11 | Mrs Stych protested coyly that she did not know enough about books to be of any use , while she wondered privately how she was going to fit this new commitment into her already overcrowded schedule of social events . |
| 12 | She took on Richard Burton and it is impossible that she did not know — quite soon — that there were flaws : she knew about theatrical affairs and knew that most of them were no more than vessels bumping in the night or for the run of the play . |
| 13 | Alice said that she did not know , had not asked . |
| 14 | Léonie insisted , watching the blade fall quickly through the bread , that she did not know the person 's name . |
| 15 | Rosalba baked special almond biscuits , hoops of crumbly nuts and fine sugar , intending to wrap some in coloured papers and offer them to Tommaso 's mother as a gift for the feast ; but could not , because , as she was about to set off , she realised that she did not know her well enough to call and give her a present . |
| 16 | Emmie looked at the small , waxy face and felt that she did not know her grandmother any more . |
| 17 | Addressing the Boys ' Brigade that very Sunday , the Rev. Johnston McKay told them of the lady who , surprised by the sum raised for the clock she had given to be sold for church funds , exclaimed that she did not know she had so much to give . |
| 18 | He had already overtaken his mother and she did not know how to cope with the graded readers he brought home from school or his teacher 's request that she should hear him read . |
| 19 | She wanted to get away , and she did not know how to get away . |
| 20 | She never thanked people usually and she did not know how to do it . |
| 21 | It was too obvious , glib almost , and she did not know what answer to make . |
| 22 | There was only so much she could take , and she did not know just when her breaking-point might come . |
| 23 | There was something about it that made it different and she did not know if it was a horse in a class of its own or if that was the rider . |
| 24 | It was exhausting and she did not know enough to analyse each problem properly . |
| 25 | She knew she was missing something , even if she did not know quite what , but she and her parents had returned to their large room at the base of the Grimsdale 's house . |
| 26 | She shook her head , even if she did not know why she shook her head , told this man anything . |
| 27 | as if she did not know . |
| 28 | But she did not know our ways and her complaints or corrections were harsh by comparison with my mother 's . |
| 29 | Jinny 's skin seemed to twitch all over her body , but she did not know why . |
| 30 | But she did not know about religion . |