Example sentences of "[subord] i did not know " in BNC.

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1 Although I did not know it , my encounter with Gladstone Murray and Ernie Bushnell in February was beginning to bear fruit , and my days as newspaperman cum radio programme director were numbered .
2 Southerton , writing under a byline , would probably have been able to speak his mind about the general atmosphere , although I did not know that his attitude to bodyline would be .
3 You have had a long life of service and time to look back on it and if I did not know how your arthritis troubles you and with what difficulty you pen your kind notes I would ask you to help me in this .
4 Perhaps they wish to share their grief , but if I did not know Uncle Ted , then it becomes less easy to sympathise .
5 Also , I am not a typist and I would never have written my first book if I did not know that Joyce was able and willing to decipher my handwriting , unsnarl my spelling and type the manuscript .
6 I certainly agree that I would not be wholly confident of the conclusion about tunnelling if I did not know that rigorous calculations with the Schrödinger equation lead to the same conclusion .
7 I would not have told you place or time if I did not know that every man of them is far into the mountains and out of your reach long before this .
8 Leave you I would , if I did not know you 'd fret your heart out worse than I 'll let you fret your body in the field .
9 For while I did not know , there was still some hope .
10 It would be absurd if my wife were to accuse me of using the word ‘ here ’ without meaning , since I did not know where I was .
11 The hon. Member for Thurrock asked whether I did not know that if one took economic resources from one area and instilled them into others that was merely a way of upsetting the ordinary economic mechanism and that it did not result in any advances .
12 erm In fact a simple formulation of this problem occurs in the opening paragraphs of À la Recherche , erm when the narrator writes this : ‘ When I woke in the middle of the night , I could not tell where I was , just as I did not know at first who I was .
13 It was my view that float fishing would not be a good idea anyhow , for I did not know of any big bream swims close enough to the bank for a float cast .
14 One of his poems had been published , he said , in The New Yorker by Howard Moss , the Poetry Editor , who — though I did not know it until Dana told me later — was a well-known homosexual .
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