Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] know [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I d-did n't know you had married her , Beckenham — I mean , Dacre . ’ |
| 2 | I did not know him . |
| 3 | ‘ Sir , I did not know him . ’ |
| 4 | I should have knelt beside her and put my arms around her and promised her that she would be freed from the hell of anhedonia , and that there really was a God and that she did have the strength to tear herself free from cocaine , as others had freed themselves , and I should have assured her that there was true happiness without a drug , but I did not know her well enough to embrace her , so I just let her weep as the sun streaked up in glory from the east . |
| 5 | Small numbers were imported into Europe years ago , but I did not know they were available again . |
| 6 | ‘ I did not know they were going . |
| 7 | There had been long periods when I could only enter you and come in you by secretly pretending to myself that I did not know you , that you were a tart I had picked up in a bar — or on the street corner . |
| 8 | ( I did not know you had scars , and I am glad I did not until now . |
| 9 | ‘ I did not know you were looking in my direction , Khan . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I did not know you were acquainted with Maman . ’ |
| 11 | Leave you I would , if I did not know you 'd fret your heart out worse than I 'll let you fret your body in the field . |
| 12 | ‘ I did not know he was injured . |
| 13 | I did not know he was married . |
| 14 | He added : ‘ I did not know he was not going to play until I got here . |
| 15 | He assured Helen , ‘ I did not know I loved you so tenderly until this trial , sweetheart ’ . |
| 16 | And no , ’ she denied strenuously as she saw which way his mind was working , ‘ I did not know she lived here ! ’ |
| 17 | I did not know it was possible for foie gras to be tasteless , but the complete omission of seasoning certainly showed I was wrong . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | ‘ Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said , ‘ Surely the Lord is in this place ; and I did not know it ’ ( 28.16 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But I did not know it . |
| 24 | I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto . |
| 25 | ‘ I did not know it came from them ! ’ he muttered . |
| 26 | I did n't know him , but I 'm told he was a very nice man . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I did n't know him . |
| 28 | Onassis invited me — I did n't know him at the time but later we became great friends — and we talked . |
| 29 | I did n't know him very well and I despised him for being well behaved and creeping around telling stories about me . |
| 30 | ‘ In fact , I did n't know him at all and he 'd managed to slip in and out of affairs before I even tumbled to the fact that he was playing around . |