Example sentences of "did not know [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The captain did not know what the craft was carrying , though that was not unusual , and the line was under contract partly for its discretion . |
| 2 | It 's no excuse that the salesman did not know what the customer planned to do with the recorder , even if it is labelled with a warning about not taping copyright records or films . |
| 3 | She did not know what the message was : Lee in this state was no longer a lovelorn friend but a trauma . |
| 4 | At first Dinah did not understand ; the way he talked was strange to her , and in any case she did not know what the term meant . |
| 5 | Geoffrey Robertson , QC for Mr Henderson , told the judge after the acquittals : ‘ The prosecution was brought by one hand of the Government which did not know what the other hand was doing . ’ |
| 6 | In the 1980S , as the communications industries multiplied and expanded , and the number of policy-actors and centres of decision ( local and regional as well as national ( proliferated , it often appeared that the right hand did not know what the left was doing . |
| 7 | She did not know what the matter was but knew instinctively that this was the right thing to do . |
| 8 | He could not interpret the hand gestures and did not know what the offworlder was thinking . |
| 9 | We did not know what the future might hold and had to face the possibility that we may not see each other again . |
| 10 | The institutions did not know what the criteria or standards were , and the process of validation normally meant two or three visits to the institution — with the first visit being a learning process for the institution , to hear what the process was all about . |
| 11 | Out popped a very strange gentleman from this aircraft that I noticed had American markings , but I still did not know what the aircraft was , I had a vague idea but I was not sure . |
| 12 | Mr Ruddy said he did not know what the two were doing . |
| 13 | Though he did not know it the San Antonio had turned tail and was even now on her way back to Spain , ‘ bearing a cargo of falsehood against Magellan ’ . |