Example sentences of "they [vb past] not know [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | Yet how could it be otherwise when they did not know where she was ? |
| 3 | The Lebanese delegation at the Middle East peace talks in Washington [ see p. 39119 ] informed their Israeli counterparts on Sept. 22 that Israeli airman Ron Arad was definitely alive , but that they did not know where he was being held . |
| 4 | So my answer to the question A is , I am not against a new settlement , of the right scale in the right location , but it is not a panacea , it is not an answer to all the questions , now it 's being offered in terms of a balanced strategy , I say that balanced strategy as put forward does not work , certainly beyond two thousand and six , and may grind to a halt well before two thousand and six if rates of development proceed er as they have done in certain years in the past , so it 's very important to look at that , can we just revisit the public acceptance of the new settlement , of course the public have accepted it and welcomed it , it has certain attractions , I support those attractions , however it 's easy for the public to accept that when measured against certain sites specific proposals that were put to them when they did not know where the new settlement would be , and still do not know , when new settlement locations are put forward it will be quite a different scenario . |
| 5 | The officer had not seen the girl 's boyfriend and was told that they did not know where he was . |
| 6 | But they did not know beforehand that one of the children they were about to take suffered from asthma . |
| 7 | Alternatively it could be that all subjects perform differently on junctions they previously knew well compared to those they did not know well . |
| 8 | Police said they did not know why the gun had gone off , but believed it might have been triggered by the wind . |
| 9 | While Wasps could relax and enjoy their Goldington Road romp , Bedford learned nothing that they did not know already . |
| 10 | They did not know when accident or sickness would hit them , and though they knew that some time in middle age — perhaps in the forties for unskilled labourers , perhaps in the fifties for the more skilled — they would become incapable of doing a full measure of adult physical labour , they did not know what would happen to them between then and death . |
| 11 | In addition , four- and five-year-olds often said explicitly that they did not know less , or even asked what it meant . |
| 12 | We can not therefore , admitting that we or they did not know before , insist that we do know now , since that would be to make different claims in circumstances that show no relevant difference . |
| 13 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 14 | Their newspapers provided odd bits of information , such as plutonium-poisoning maps that frightened readers rather than reassuring them because they did not know how to interpret them . |
| 15 | Bede tells the story that , so backward were the heathen South Saxons that although a maritime race , they did not know how to fish and were given to mass suicides from convenient cliffs when the corn harvest failed after a terrible drought . |
| 16 | Taking into account the fact that they made fewer comments about individual types of credit than men , women 's comments were more likely to be that they did not know how a type of credit worked than men 's ; and less likely to say that it was easy to understand and use . |
| 17 | They were in bed , Therese and she , and they did not know how late it was . |
| 18 | Others continued to argue , as they had done before , and as they do today , that the indigent could never be adequately housed because they did not know how to live with cleanliness and decency . |
| 19 | They did not know how to take it . |
| 20 | But they did not know how happy until their life in London was over , and they had to live a very different life indeed . |
| 21 | They had been there … they did not know how long . |
| 22 | They did not know how to cook ’ ; their culinary skills extended only to bread and jam or bought fish and chips . |
| 23 | They did not know how long their present work would last or , if they lost it , when they would get another job or under what conditions . |
| 24 | Laura 's parents , Fran and Les Davies , who were also at the news conference , said they did not know how much the next operation would cost . |
| 25 | He said many people who were given council houses subsequently lost them because they did not know how to pay the rent and cope with bills . |