Example sentences of "heaven knows [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although heaven knows we tried to keep it there . |
| 2 | ‘ There is a tide in the affairs of man , which taken at the flood , leads on to … ’ heaven knows what and where . |
| 3 | But once outside , Dana and I became quarrelsome and started to fight with one another , releasing heaven knows what accumulated stores of fury and resentment . |
| 4 | The passage was not some ghastly simile of war or territorial domination ( though heaven knows what the Iranians would have made of it ) , but just a pictorial explanation of the passage North said he read them next , from the third chapter of Galatians : ‘ Know ye therefore that they which are of faith , the same are the children of Abraham . ’ |
| 5 | A challenge perhaps , but heaven knows what Mr Donovan 's fans would have done with their bedroom posters if he had turned out to be gay . |
| 6 | Kenyon must see it through or heaven knows what will become of the station . |
| 7 | Heaven knows what his victim had been eating before the battle , but it ended Seiguard 's reign of terror , permanently . |
| 8 | Such records justified being at the top of the class structure , with heaven knows what colour of label ; but this would be undemocratic . |
| 9 | I suppose what I was asked and what I said in reply will be subject to the ‘ 30 year rule ’ — and heaven knows what any archivist will make of it all in the year 2012 ! |
| 10 | Heaven knows what pollution of the ocean is occurring in the form of emission of radionuclides , and building up in the various food chains in which plankton play a part . |
| 11 | Had an ITN camera crew been present in Safeways when my husband and I ( to use a Royal phrase ) argued so publicly over who was paying the £75 bill , heaven knows what conclusions they would have drawn . |
| 12 | ‘ And heaven knows what Mother would say if she saw ! ’ |
| 13 | Heaven knows what would happen to your street credibility if … ’ |
| 14 | The weather 's turned cold , and heaven knows what germs you 've imbibed from that canal water . ’ |
| 15 | Guy Fawkes , Gulliver , Heathcliff , Robinson Crusoe , Charlie Chaplin , Tarzan , Sherlock Holmes , Flora Macdonald — the list goes on , the cast assembles , though heaven knows what performance they would put on between them . |
| 16 | The only one of the three daughters around was Dorothy , who acted as our guide and mentor and came with us , first on a visit to Speight 's Brewery which was memorable for the guide , who delivered her monologue in a deadpan voice and an accent so broad that even Dorothy had trouble understanding it , heaven knows what all the Japanese tourists made of it ! — and second , on the Taieri Gorge railway , an afternoon 's ride up into Central Otago , with stops along the way . |
| 17 | It 's the same if we take it out , if we take heaven knows what . |
| 18 | Heaven knows what you must think of us . ’ |
| 19 | Besides , I 'd have to leave my screen , And heaven knows what that might mean ! |
| 20 | You had got perms and heaven knows what on the go . |
| 21 | no , heaven knows what will happen to me when I 've , when I got it any more , I use it all the time . |
| 22 | But heaven knows I 'm miserable now ’ . |
| 23 | The hymn-like ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ was a testament to the fact that success did n't automatically breed contentment … but it helps . |
| 24 | ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ was a hymn of drunken melancholy ; reflective , beyond bitterness , remote , superficially negative and sincere . |
| 25 | The song made a re-appearance as the flip side to ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ and was brought to the attention of relatives of the murdered ‘ Moors ’ children — Lesley Ann Downey and John Kilbride . |
| 26 | In Sounds , the final round-up of the indie singles chart gave the band 's number one and two with ‘ What Difference Does It Make ’ and ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ respectively with three other singles ( if you count Sandie Shaw 's little effort ) in the top thirty . |
| 27 | The gig continued but was effectively overshadowed by the possibility of impending disaster and it was n't until the encores of ‘ William , It Was Really Nothing ’ , ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ and ‘ Barbarism Begins At Home ’ that they slipped into the comfort of early promise . |
| 28 | Stephen 's big break came in 1984 when a young Manchester band by the name of The Smiths turned up to record a single , Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now . |
| 29 | ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ |
| 30 | APART FROM ‘ Heaven Knows I 'm Miserable Now ’ , this was the only Smiths or Morrissey newie or reissue not to receive an NME review . |