Example sentences of "[adv] knows [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ God only knows what might have happened if ye had screamed . ’ |
| 2 | I suppose that ferrets are no more unusual as pets than rats , snakes and goodness only knows what else . |
| 3 | God only knows what the KGB will do to them , poor wretches . ’ |
| 4 | God only knows what those bastards would do to sum . |
| 5 | Goodness only knows what makes them tick , or why they thought they could get away with it here . |
| 6 | Lord only knows what mysterious kind of cargo it was carrying . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ God only knows what she 's doing here ! |
| 8 | Now we can only get Lux made locally out of God only knows what . ’ |
| 9 | Frontenac only knows what he 's read of the place . |
| 10 | Heaven only knows what kind of pull is required to secure a seat in the cab , probably direct descent from the Mahdi at the very least . |
| 11 | And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole . |
| 12 | Well , had we given in then god only knows what would have happened in both our quarry and the other two quarries . |
| 13 | But from what I gathered erm yeah we were gon na carry on , we were n't gon na be forced back to work , cos had we gone back under their conditions , then god only knows what I 'd be earning now . |
| 14 | Richard , Richard if you w if you were on the streets of Belfast for example goodness only knows what they would say to you , just because you 're British and they 'd use the pretext that you 're black to really throw horrendous insults at you . |
| 15 | We seriously need someone like Jack Charlton who not only knows what he s doing … he is his own man and does nt cling to pathetic stereotypes — or do what the press think is best . |
| 16 | Heaven only knows what else you 've done that Paige has covered up for . |
| 17 | Goodness only knows what staff nurses did then ? |
| 18 | Dorinda only knows herself by the mirror : it has literally and figuratively provided her with a self-image . |
| 19 | I 'm twice your age , I ought to take things like this in my stride — Christ only knows it 's not the first time . |
| 20 | Although he spends most of his waking hours exchanging information with fellow otaku , Zero only knows his tribe through the computer bulletin board . |
| 21 | YOUR reader who came up with the old nonsense about teachers ' holidays obviously knows nothing about the job . |
| 22 | She obviously knows you are not keen , which is why she uses blandishments of one kind or another to keep you by her side . |
| 23 | Not everyone will concede that there really is a single interpretation , nor that , if there is , the subject necessarily knows what he is up to . |
| 24 | God alone knows what she saw in that brute . |
| 25 | Every weekend now , tens of thousands , perhaps hundreds of thousands of people are taking tablets containing unknown substances , and God alone knows what the real long-term consequences of that are likely to be . |
| 26 | ‘ He thinks I can manage the first two years ' bills at Dickie 's new school , but after that I 'll be cleaned out , so God alone knows what 'll happen . |
| 27 | ‘ Alex Bannen would 've had a screaming fit if we 'd left you to mess up his precious Bridge ; God alone knows what Tiw would 've done . ’ |
| 28 | Heaven alone knows what he was doing in there . ’ |
| 29 | God alone knows what planet they 've sent the luggage to . |
| 30 | You are drawing upon a more ancient and powerful source of memory than me , or Huxley , or the boys , his sons , Christian and Steven — and God alone knows what happened to them . ’ |