Example sentences of "[adv] know [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To him , she was still the same Alyssia , and heaven only knew why he had slept with her . |
| 2 | God only knew how he had tried to replace her in his thoughts and in his heart — striking relationships with one woman after another , lurching from one crisis to the next , building his business with her in mind … driving himself like a man demented and amassing a fortune , yet knowing all the time that he was striving for the impossible . |
| 3 | God alone knew why we wanted to sail to New Zealand together , except that in a strange way we were friends . |
| 4 | God alone knew how she had tried . |
| 5 | I do n't honestly know why he agreed to do the film , except that all he wanted was a fifteen-minute death scene . |
| 6 | ‘ So now you also know why I intend to hang on to you ? |
| 7 | She also knew why she had come here with him today . |
| 8 | So they do n't really know how it runs do they ? |
| 9 | All right , he now knew why she had come — not to follow him as he 'd thought , but to deliver the letters ; but that still did n't explain his anger . |
| 10 | He did n't quite know why he 'd hoped that Alex could be cleared of the murder , but the confirmation of his friend 's guilt sapped him of all energy . |
| 11 | She was so startled that she just stood there like a dummy , and then , before she quite knew how it had happened , her wet sweater had been whipped over her head , a dry towel thrust into her hand and she was halfway into the hall . |
| 12 | She was just congratulating herself that Fen need never know how she had weakened when the galley light was flicked on . |
| 13 | ‘ You 'll never know how I 've longed to hear you say that ! ’ |
| 14 | and I thought well we 're a ha a healthy family I said you never know when you want help so I said but I 've got twenty p here , I 'll have one ticket he said well my dear that one ticket come out can come out ! |
| 15 | ‘ 'T WAS stamped with your father 's seal , and I just accepted it — and then flung myself into battle after battle , trying to forget you , never knowing why you continued to haunt me , until I thought you had betrayed me . ’ |