Example sentences of "did know " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did know , ’ he said ; then putting on the style , ‘ Your uncle 's grandaddy 's granddaddy , came over with that murthering bugger Cromwell , did he , English Jenny ? ’ |
| 2 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 3 | After all I did know through my discussions with Pasha regarding the plausibility of King Lear 's plot that the Earl of Gloucester was really the Earl of Gloster . |
| 4 | The most startling yarn was that of Zhang Quo Zhi , who enjoyed a lifestyle which , if you did know better , you would describe as that of a successful capitalist . |
| 5 | If Rank seriously thought that his directors could work to order and effectively fill the gap in the release schedules , notwithstanding the audience 's proven affection for US pictures , then he really did know very little about film production . |
| 6 | For the British at large , Czechoslovakia , compared with some of the others , was a not too far-off country of which we did know something : that distinctive spelling , those operas . |
| 7 | He did n't talk about groups he was involved with but I did know that he was playing with a group . |
| 8 | He looked very nice in it and he did win the contest , so Ken did know what he was doing . |
| 9 | ‘ I did know about it , of course . |
| 10 | ‘ But if you did know , you would n't stop me . |
| 11 | Well , yes , I did know ; it was because my Russian friends would be there . |
| 12 | One thing she did know however was that she was n't running after him . |
| 13 | However this convenient explanation of his style bore no relation to what we did know about O's past life with other men . |
| 14 | We did know that , at least . |
| 15 | Nutty did know , but Hoomey 's expression put her off . |
| 16 | The information I had on my own troops was also of a general , somewhat amateurish nature , but I did know that , put in its simplest form , my immune system was a collection of several kinds of cells designed to attack and destroy foreign bodies . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh dear , ’ she said , ‘ you did know this was a fever hospital , did n't you ? |
| 18 | Yet I did know one other ‘ Yankee ’ was with us . |
| 19 | These are practical limits on the beneficiary 's powers , for , although it will not usually be difficult to determine whether a real price was paid , it will regularly be very hard for a beneficiary to show that a buyer did know of the existence of a trust ; and unless this can be shown , no action lies . |
| 20 | I did n't know whether to go for the oatmeal for second choice or whether to stick to the saxe , but I definitely did not want jet or donkey , that I did know . |
| 21 | Although he did know George Gardner , who was born on 19th September 1778 , he did not mention meeting his father Daniel Gardner , the portrait painter who was born in 1750 and died in 1805 . |
| 22 | What she did know was that she never wanted to go away again . |
| 23 | For the accused to be declared insane , he must be so diseased ‘ as to not know the nature and quality of the act he was doing ; or if he did know it , that he did not know he was doing what was wrong . ’ |
| 24 | Yes I did know . |
| 25 | She did n't even know his name but she did know that this time she was IN LOVE ! |
| 26 | If they did know and blocked the main rides the verderers ' chances of getting out of the forest were small . |
| 27 | Then , yes , I believe he did know who Dominic was . ’ |
| 28 | What I did know was that Shadwell was involved . |
| 29 | But I did know how crucial such visits by hot directors were to actors , who worried constantly about their next job . |
| 30 | Tell me , darling Edouard — you did know , did n't you ? ’ |