Example sentences of "[noun prp] did not know [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he had been into the interior once before , in the service of two Dutch explorers who , in the manner of all Dutch explorers , had died strange deaths : though not before they had communicated to civilization a mysterious message , ‘ Wallace and Darwin did not know it , but there are alternatives . ’ |
| 2 | At this unhappy moment , I recalled that mysterious sentence , ‘ Wallace and Darwin did not know it , but there are alternatives . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Nothing , ’ Corbett sighed ‘ I just thank God Mistress Agatha did not know you were asleep . |
| 4 | Alexia did not know him well , he realised . |
| 5 | I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) . |
| 6 | And here he was not many hours later sitting with Marcus Felstead in a relatively quiet comer of the clubhouse , twisting the guts out of him , though Marcus did not know it yet . |
| 7 | Ironically , though Mr H did not know it , mental-health reformers in Japan were at last making some headway . |
| 8 | Paul did not know them , but Willie sang boldly , lifting up his voice like Jacob in the Book of Genesis . |
| 9 | ‘ Russell did not know it . |
| 10 | The new pleading , so far as relevant to the claim against the building society , constituted ( i ) a plea of non est factum based on the proposition that Mrs. Steed did not know she had been appointed attorney and did not know she was signing a transfer of the property ; ( ii ) a plea that the transaction effected by the transfer was not a sale and was not within the power conferred by the power of attorney . |