Sentence examples for it wasn't unknown from inspiring English sources

It wasn't unknown for "ghost trains" to arrive at their destination ablaze, their passengers burned to death.

In 2001 Ferguson visited Gérard Houllier in hospital after the Frenchman underwent heart surgery and it wasn't unknown for the former Liverpool player Matt Busby to share a team coach with his fellow manager Bill Shankly after the pair formed a mutual Scottish admiration society in the sixties.

Such violence had not been common in Wales, but it was not unknown.

It was not unknown in Vedic India, ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.

It was not unknown for players to be knocked out when they tried to head the ball.

But times were always tough; it was not unknown for bailiffs to turn up threatening to impound the typewriters.

It was not unknown for her to run a cycle before the party was an hour old.

"Her behaviour is very disinhibited and it was not unknown for her to go into town in the afternoon and pick up men in bars.

She once admitted to having written ninety-nine letters in a fortnight, and it was not unknown for her to race after the postman with a donkey and cart.

At home, it was not unknown for there to be a student downstairs while she lay in the bath upstairs, banging on the floor every time she felt they were not practising well enough.

This may have been a particular honour paid to the Empress; on the other hand it was not unknown in eighteenth-century France for some ladies to enter Freemasonic lodges.