Example sentences of "was not to know " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( He was not to know that Charles Olson , after next to no apprenticeship at all , would recklessly try to emulate him . ) |
| 2 | He was not to know that because she never spoke about her feelings , she could not express them on demand . |
| 3 | Stalin was not to know that his criteria would exclude many nations that were subsequently to emerge ( for example , Pakistan , without a common language or territory , but with a common religion ) , and force some groups into being nations ( the most notorious example being the black American population ) . |
| 4 | But Sally was not to know that and she was mortified . |
| 5 | The blood on my face was not mine — though she was not to know this . |
| 6 | As a boy , of course , I was not to know of such matters , such degradation , such humiliation and indignities . |
| 7 | Poor Annie was not to know that Hilary found it difficult to understand her broad moorland dialect . |
| 8 | Party chairman Chris Patten , who repeatedly urged caution , was not to know that Treasury forecasts of recovery were baseless . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I was not to know it then , but once the worst of the operation and shock was over , hospital was the best bit of this accident . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She was not to know that Tina , sticking to her principles , had long ago slept with her cousin Jarvis . |
| 13 | As it happened , Clara was wrong , but she was not to know she was wrong , and she suffered as much as though she had been right . |
| 14 | All she wanted was not to know again , so that she could stay a little child and never have to grow up and face the world without her mother to wake her in the mornings and teach her things and tell her stories and pass on all her wisdom about the world and men and how babies came and why the best any woman could hope for in this life was to be able to make one man happy . |
| 15 | He was not to know . ’ |
| 16 | It had come to harm enough , but he was not to know that . |
| 17 | This man was not to know that it very nearly was , by Auguste 's reckoning . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He was not to know that a real fear was beginning to overwhelm Sally-Anne . |
| 20 | He was not to know that those pictures appalled her , that she had never imagined herself capable of such thoughts . |