Example sentences of "[adv] knew [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in that moment , Joseph suddenly knew who the three men were ; only Katherine Lundy 's men would be enquiring after Patrick . |
| 2 | God alone knew what the traffic would be like on the freeway , through the mean streets of Edgware , down to the inferno that was the A406 , on through gloomy Tolworth and Chessington , out to the no-man's-land that was Leatherhead . |
| 3 | God alone knew what the girl did after the golden boy had gone off to sell his 57 varieties , heaven only knew why she could n't get herself dressed before ten o'clock . |
| 4 | It was too late not to finish the sentence and she already knew what the sentence meant anyway … ‘ not long for this world — on his way out — dying ’ … words which were impossible to say . |
| 5 | All day long he insisted that they already knew who the fellow-Communists of his branch had been in the Forties and that he did not want to ‘ crawl through the mud for no purpose ’ . |
| 6 | Professor Miller , for such he has to be called for identification purposes , was first asked to give a definition of what psychology was , though the other Miller probably knew what the answer would be . |
| 7 | The Hungarians , efficient and courteous , probably knew what the Jaguar and its occupants had been put through . |
| 8 | Sally Jones , the sports presenter , clearly knew what the plural of Grand Prix was . |
| 9 | Nina now knew what the expression ‘ squealing like a stuck pig ’ really meant . |
| 10 | For years we plodded on : bought a house , had two kids , never really knew what the other was thinking . |
| 11 | I do n't think we even knew what the O stood for ; perhaps he lied about it . |
| 12 | Although he evidently knew what the king had planned , he nowhere states it explicitly , and his silence has left the field to Mancini 's version . |
| 13 | Although he evidently knew what the king had planned , he nowhere states it explicitly , and his silence has left the field to Mancini 's version . |
| 14 | The right hand never knew what the left was doing . |
| 15 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 16 | But we never knew who the other three were . ’ |
| 17 | Hence I never knew who the culprit was and was never put into possession of the document or documents which existed and which would certainly have identified that person , since each copy of the minutes had , on my advice , been numbered . |