Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] [pron] [vb past] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before her marriage Anna had been taken up as one of the handful of pet Americans and now , although they did not know exactly what had happened , everybody in London sided with her . |
| 2 | She did n't know how he had forced that admission out of her , she only knew it was something she had to say . |
| 3 | He did not know how he had got the door to this place to open . |
| 4 | And at the end of the first week he asked me how I would feel if we sold the domestic appliances businesses ( the most profitable part of the group at the time ) , and I said I did n't know how he had got to that so fast , but that it was fine with me . |
| 5 | ‘ Apparently all he said was that he did n't know how he 'd died , but it looked unpleasant . |
| 6 | I do n't know how I 'd dared drive down them narrow roads |
| 7 | Not so much the compromises , the deceits , the hypocrisies affecting his work , his women , his children , even his friends , but the sense of despair and failure hovering over him , as though he was trapped and did n't know how it had happened or what he should or could do . |
| 8 | He did n't know how it had happened , but Sarah was giving all her maternal love to the wrong child . |
| 9 | If we found an object such as a watch upon a heath , even if we did n't know how it had come into existence , its own precision and intricacy of design would force us to conclude that the watch must have had a maker : that there must have existed , at some time , and at some place or other , an artificer or artificers , who formed it for the purpose which we find it actually to answer ; who comprehended its construction , and designed its use . |
| 10 | He did n't say anything , but she could imagine the ranging of his thoughts — how he himself had tried to talk her into something , though he could n't know how she had stonewalled past the point where she knew what she was doing . |
| 11 | She was just congratulating herself that Fen need never know how she had weakened when the galley light was flicked on . |
| 12 | Even now , she did n't know how she had managed it . |
| 13 | Well do you know sometimes I 'd taken it through and perhaps a train would come in , a London train would come in and people were crowding through . |
| 14 | I do n't know where he had got it . |
| 15 | Not that she did know where he 'd gone ; she did n't . |
| 16 | And when I saw the landlady there she said that she did have a Mr there but he 'd left a few days ago , did n't know where he 'd got to . |
| 17 | Before we could say anything , she said in a loud voice , ‘ If God had put my eyes beneath my mouth , I would know when I 'd dropped something , would n't I ? ’ |
| 18 | Rachaela did not know why she had participated . |
| 19 | She did not know why she had come . |
| 20 | She did n't know why she felt compelled to probe . |
| 21 | I did n't know why I 'd agreed to attend this festival . |
| 22 | I do n't know why it had occurred to her to make this observation . |
| 23 | He did n't know why he 'd written , except maybe to let people know that he was alive . |
| 24 | He did n't quite know why he 'd hoped that Alex could be cleared of the murder , but the confirmation of his friend 's guilt sapped him of all energy . |
| 25 | Did n't know why he 'd bothered . |
| 26 | Even his daughter did not know why he had chosen a house overlooking the railways or for that matter why he wanted to keep a school at all . |
| 27 | He did n't know why he had come , hated himself for coming , but had by now tormented himself into a state of mind where he was deliberately looking for fresh spasms of anguish . |
| 28 | He did n't know why he had returned to Police Headquarters . |
| 29 | Asked what she would do once she had satisfied her immediate needs , one emigrant said , pensively , ‘ I shall watch the East German anniversary celebrations , but I do n't know if I will be laughing or crying . ’ |
| 30 | I could n't see her face very clearly now , but could sense how she 'd withdrawn from me . |