Example sentences of "they did not know " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Wasps could relax and enjoy their Goldington Road romp , Bedford learned nothing that they did not know already . |
| 2 | Financial markets yesterday naively expected something , although they did not know what , from Nigel Lawson , the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 3 | When it was taken up with the Headmaster he said that the boy 's name was not on the roll , they did not know of him . |
| 4 | Their newspapers provided odd bits of information , such as plutonium-poisoning maps that frightened readers rather than reassuring them because they did not know how to interpret them . |
| 5 | And Gaily took her quick reply for unwillingness , too , and decided that they did not know one another well enough yet to ask such questions , such casual , family questions , as between friends . |
| 6 | ( Both subsequently maintained , too , that they did not know . ) |
| 7 | What they did not know was Kylie 's principles now prevented her from even touching them . |
| 8 | Richard I had disafforested the southern half , but they did not know whether Henry II had afforested any district which had not been forest in the time of Henry I. |
| 9 | They did not know that liberal humanism was powerless in the face of fascism . |
| 10 | What they did not know — and perhaps Mr Desai did not know either — was that urine contains large amounts of melatonin — a chemical secreted by the pineal gland which is involved ( no one knows how ) in setting the body 's natural rhythms . |
| 11 | Similarly , the Prevention of Terrorism Act requires bankers to prove that they did not know that a client 's funds were serving terrorism . |
| 12 | Police said they did not know why the gun had gone off , but believed it might have been triggered by the wind . |
| 13 | They did not know . |
| 14 | But they did not know that in the beginning , as Mrs Irving expatiated in her cracked and gracious voice on the high brick wall which dated from the Civil War , and earlier still , which had formed one boundary of General Fairfax 's lands when Putney was a separate village , when Cromwell 's Trained Bands assembled there , when the Putney Debates on liberty of conscience were held in St Mary 's Church on the bridge . |
| 15 | What they did not know was that their legendary luck was about to run out . |
| 16 | They felt they did not know what services , nor how many , are available . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | What they did not know was that in ten years time , that beautiful picture was to be blighted by Britain 's first commercial nuclear power station . |
| 19 | Given so little space , however , perhaps we need not have been reminded , as we are in Stanley Cramp 's foreword , that ‘ Ducks , geese , and swans live in or near water ’ , nor that the legs of the last two ‘ are placed near the middle of the body , so that the bird stands fairly upright ’ , Malcolm Ogilvie can tell most people something they did not know about wildfowl , but in this case his publishers clearly rushed him . |
| 20 | They did not reflect that they were young , they did not know that they were beautiful . |
| 21 | The doubts of these two people were entirely different , but they were both doubting God for the same reason : they did not know God as he really is . |
| 22 | With people saying things with a meaning they did not know , or with more meaning than they knew . ’ |
| 23 | What they did not know was that the examination of the diamonds had finished before midnight to the complete satisfaction of Zack and his accomplices . |
| 24 | But they did not know beforehand that one of the children they were about to take suffered from asthma . |
| 25 | Bede tells the story that , so backward were the heathen South Saxons that although a maritime race , they did not know how to fish and were given to mass suicides from convenient cliffs when the corn harvest failed after a terrible drought . |
| 26 | In the detailed cross-tabulations for our main survey ( not always included in Appendix I ) , we found that women were much more likely to say they did not know what sort of interest rate to expect , and to say they did not understand interest rates well . |
| 27 | Taking into account the fact that they made fewer comments about individual types of credit than men , women 's comments were more likely to be that they did not know how a type of credit worked than men 's ; and less likely to say that it was easy to understand and use . |
| 28 | The young women had heard that Berwick was besieged and that the English army was none so far off , but they did not know the details , nor of course that Ramsay had been involved . |
| 29 | Krabbe and two other German women runners had admitted taking the drug Clenbuterol , but claimed they did not know it was banned . |
| 30 | They did not know of the Indian hot springs nor of Chatterjee 's ideas . |