Example sentences of "one [adv] knew " in BNC.
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| 1 | No one ever knew what was to happen next , as Lily said . |
| 2 | Anna , worn through to her nerve ends , said she thought one would probably drop dead before one ever knew . |
| 3 | No one ever knew where it was she hoped to go . |
| 4 | We went to the theatre and to dinner and I believe I must have talked and , as I have said , I know I sometimes laughed and I think no one ever knew that I was empty of everything except perhaps madness . |
| 5 | We went back to the villa hand in hand and no one ever knew we had been out , or if they did they did n't say . |
| 6 | Those meetings were enclosed within a Fifth Force Field , so that no one ever knew what passed between the Emperor and his Adviser of the Computers . |
| 7 | Twenty five years that man has worn a hairpiece and no one ever knew . |
| 8 | No one ever knew who had fed this line to Kim . |
| 9 | No one ever knew — in a very serious bit of comedy indeed . |
| 10 | But those Somerville years remain with us , and the friends , and the ageless dons , some livelier , more liberal , than one ever knew ; and it 's good to go back and recall old times , good and bad . |
| 11 | With France one always knew . |
| 12 | Yet one always knew which one was Kenneth Williams . |
| 13 | At the line no one really knew which had prevailed . |
| 14 | As economic theory had not really moved beyond the ‘ invisible hand ’ idea of Adam Smith , not surprisingly no one really knew what was wrong with the machine . |
| 15 | No one really knew how the new technique should be handled . |
| 16 | Sometimes I wonder if one really knew they were so desolate at the time . ’ |
| 17 | But no one really knew how far one country was from another So , when they began to explore further and sail across the ocean , they had to find some other means of navigating or finding their way . |
| 18 | Though both Rosen and Burgess and D'Costa had identified this language variety of black adolescents with Jamaican specifically , in the absence of a description , no one really knew whether it had the features of Jamaican Creole or not . |
| 19 | Besides , until the fire , no one really knew how bad things had got … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Then how do you explain the fact that the kidnappers phoned urgently , demanding to see Ubaldo in person , at a time when you were still in Rome and no one supposedly knew you were coming except the authorities ? ’ |
| 21 | In fact no one then knew what had caused the Communist aggression in Korea . |
| 22 | And recollect , too , that no one had seen him , no one then knew he had ever left the enclave . |
| 23 | ‘ Of course , although no one quite knew what happened that morning — you were the only one who knew that … that is , until the results of the blood tests were made available . ’ |
| 24 | Some were sudden and burst out in a blaze , some were gradual and soundless and floated about in bits like tinsel blown and scattered , extinguishing one neither knew nor cared where . |
| 25 | There was no one she could discuss it with , for Hoomey was too scared , and no one else knew . |
| 26 | When she passed him the number of her room ( thinking no one else knew she had ) and left to await him , he remained in the ballroom drinking , and when I left at midnight he was still there looking bored and lonely , missing his live-in girlfriend Marie Lisa Volpelierre ( who not long after died so tragically in a riding accident ) . |
| 27 | No one else knew anything about him , not until this morning . ’ |
| 28 | No one else knew of these records , they were just another among the many secrets the two shared . |
| 29 | Refusing to teach or to perform , he started to compose , which much pleased his daily , though no one else knew of it . |
| 30 | No one else knew where she was . |