Example sentences of "do [adv] know it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crisis Line say many who need help do n't know it ; and it 's the family that suffers . |
| 2 | See they do n't know it 's to hurt . |
| 3 | I did not know it was possible for foie gras to be tasteless , but the complete omission of seasoning certainly showed I was wrong . |
| 4 | He says he did not know it had been . |
| 5 | ‘ We did not know it at the time but the torch we lit in Britain , which transformed our country — the torch of freedom that is now the symbol of our party — became a beacon that has shed its light across the Iron Curtain into the East . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | No wonder he woke overcome with awe : ‘ Surely the Lord is in this place ; and I did not know it … how awesome is this place ! |
| 8 | ‘ Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said , ‘ Surely the Lord is in this place ; and I did not know it ’ ( 28.16 ) . |
| 9 | He maintains that he did not know it was there . |
| 10 | Although we did not know it at the time , the next census figures were to show an over-all drop of more than 11% . |
| 11 | I did not know Salisbury well enough — Wendy did not know it at all — to grope my way to an hotel ( and , anyhow , we feared we had not enough money for a bed ) . |
| 12 | At last , after almost fifty years of problems , the Club was on the verge of a breakthrough , although at the time did not know it . |
| 13 | His sister was his mother , only he did not know it until he was thirty-eight years old . |
| 14 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 15 | Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | There were two sisters ahead of me in the family , and though of course I did not know it , there was heady talk of emigration , possibly to Canada but more usually to England , the land of milk and honey and opportunity . |
| 18 | Though he did not know it , and never would , he was looking at the blazing jet-pipe of Colonel Bowers ' F-15 Eagle as both men raced on different missions towards the British capital , neither man knowing what it was he carried . |
| 19 | She did not know it well , only that it led to a clump of trees at the top called Beckwith 's Folly . |
| 20 | Krabbe and two other German women runners had admitted taking the drug Clenbuterol , but claimed they did not know it was banned . |
| 21 | But I did not know it . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | They walked along the platform and made their way to the Metropolitan Line , thus entering , though they did not know it , the oldest part of the system . |
| 24 | The girls , although they did not know it , found her relaxing . |
| 25 | She could not have said that she found him dull , because she did not know it , and was conscious only of her own failure , and her misery at her own personal inadequacy quite drowned any sensation of boredom . |
| 26 | You can probably work out the rest if you did not know it already . |
| 27 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
| 28 | Alix , although she did not know it , was pregnant . |
| 29 | In B. 's case , the plaintiff 's complaint is of negligence by medical staff at a much earlier period — they carried out a dilation and curettage ( ‘ D. and C. procedure ’ ) at a time when the plaintiff 's mother was about five weeks pregnant with the plaintiff but did not know it , and they failed to carry out any pregnancy test before the D. and C. procedure . |
| 30 | ‘ No , Delia , you promised , ’ Rosen broke in but he did not know it was an evening of broken promises . |