Example sentences of "i [vb past] not know [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 I did not know him .
2 ‘ Sir , I did not know him . ’
3 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 .
4 Small numbers were imported into Europe years ago , but I did not know they were available again .
5 I did not know they were going .
6 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 .
7 ( I did not know you had scars , and I am glad I did not until now .
8 I did not know you were looking in my direction , Khan . ’
9 I did not know you were acquainted with Maman . ’
10 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 .
11 I did not know he was injured .
12 I did not know he was married .
13 He added : ‘ I did not know he was not going to play until I got here .
14 He assured Helen , ‘ I did not know I loved you so tenderly until this trial , sweetheart ’ .
15 And no , ’ she denied strenuously as she saw which way his mind was working , ‘ I did not know she lived here ! ’
16 I did not know it was possible for foie gras to be tasteless , but the complete omission of seasoning certainly showed I was wrong .
17 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 .
18 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 !
19 ‘ Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said , ‘ Surely the Lord is in this place ; and I did not know it ’ ( 28.16 ) .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 But I did not know it .
23 I did not know it at the time , but Helmut knew that Jean-Claude was still seeing Otto .
24 I did not know it came from them ! ’ he muttered .
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