Example sentences of "[not/n't] know [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to know her , not to love her ( at the very least , not to want to love her ) was to deny oneself the totality of experience . |
| 2 | ‘ All the better not to know him then , ’ said Lili . |
| 3 | Harry was puzzled that Nicholas seemed not to know him . |
| 4 | He pretends not to know me , which is n't too surprising , as we 've never met , but otherwise appears not too eccentric . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't think that meant you were going to pretend not to know me ! ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The pasty-faced bureaucrats at New Scotland Yard were not to know he felt about as much at home there when he first arrived as a Martian . |
| 9 | They 're not to know I 'd never fight . ’ |
| 10 | She 's not to know I was supposed to catch yesterday 's plane . ’ |
| 11 | It 's certainly the case that I appear to be hitched up with Tod like this , but he 's not to know I 'm here . |
| 12 | Every day we change a little , but you would n't expect Matthew not to know us , would you , eh ? ’ |
| 13 | If you do not know they are there , or if you do not know where they are , you will miss them . |
| 14 | Although such a statement is transparently obvious , as we have demonstrated earlier there are a vast number of crimes where people do not know they are victims , such as minor thefts , and many white-collar crimes . |
| 15 | In a study by Taylor of library guides in London polytechnic libraries she found that the users often did not read them because they did not know they were there . |
| 16 | Small numbers were imported into Europe years ago , but I did not know they were available again . |
| 17 | They ‘ soldier on ’ , and not infrequently find coping strength and skill which they did not know they had . |
| 18 | ‘ I did not know they were going . |
| 19 | What they did not know they could imagine . |
| 20 | But they did not know they were to be presented with tickets to whisk two people off to Claridge 's . |
| 21 | They were sold at the New Caledonian Market in Southwark during the half light before sunrise to an art dealer who did not know they were stolen . |
| 22 | The computer industry has only recently realised that , on the whole , ordinary people do not like computers and are only comfortable using them when they do not know they are doing so . |
| 23 | Some outstations were so far out of the way , the public did not know they were there , said Prestatyn Coun Richard Edwards . |
| 24 | I certainly did not know they were counterfeits . ’ |
| 25 | How unusual that word appeared from his lips , of course you , who did not know him , can not conceive . ’ |
| 26 | Alexia did not know him well , he realised . |
| 27 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 28 | She takes a short cut down Avondale Road , and passes the five-bedroom detached house of Vic Wilcox without a glance , for she does not know him from Adam , and the house is outwardly no different from any of the other modern executive dwellings in this exclusive residential district : red brick and white paint , ‘ Georgian ’ windows , a tarmac drive and double garage , a burglar alarm prominently displayed on the front elevation . ) |
| 29 | Evidence from all over the world suggests that women have all the gifts needed to be effective and caring priests : to bring the love of Christ to those who do not know him and to be enablers of others . |
| 30 | You may not know him , |