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Example sentences for "who knew"

  • In that case, how could Ovid (who knew nothing of chemical experiments) be an obstacle in the doctor's way?

  • Charlotte, who knew a little about everything, and had read about a third of each of the books to which she alluded.

  • Mr. Arabin, who knew that he was being flattered and yet suffered himself to put up with it.

  • Pierre, who knew German, translated what the German said to the captain and gave the captain's reply to the Wurttemberg hussar in German.

  • She was the Countess Bezukhova, Pierre's wife, and the count, who knew everyone in society, leaned over and spoke to her.

  • Count Markov was the only man who knew how to handle him.

  • The contemptuously respectful attitude of the younger men to the old man in his dotage was expressed in the highest degree by the behavior of Chichagov, who knew of the accusations that were being directed against Kutuzov.

  • They asked Masouda, who knew everything, what it meant.

  • We did not rob you, sire," answered Godwin, "who knew nothing of this plot.

  • In the evening, Madame made the King a present of the cups she had bought, but she did not mention her walk, for fear Mademoiselle Romans should tell him that two ladies, who knew him, had met her there such a day.

  • Colin, who knew her, though she did not know him, came in.

  • Manuel, however, who knew not of this cross arrangement, was better informed than its projector.

  • But I have grown a little morbid, perhaps, through knowing that the few friends I have, who knew my husband, had formed a somewhat disparaging and greatly mistaken opinion of him.

  • To Constance, who knew little of London except from reading, the contrast seemed equally great, but it affected her in a different and much pleasanter way.

  • As to that she would consult Constance, who knew everything.

  • Who knew to what it might lead in these days?

  • She motioned to him to take a seat near to her, while the Levantine, who knew nothing of the English tongue, retired to the farther end of the tent.

  • There was a long silence; those present, who knew nothing of all that was in his memory, felt instinctively that some dead weight of alien guilt was lifted off a blameless life forever.

  • The cook, who knew me when I was a schoolboy, sleeps alone; all three servants sleep on the floor above.

  • Who knew of the presence of the diamonds in the house of Mr. Shipman and Mr. Knopf?

  • The witness, or rather witnesses, referred to by the police were two Brighton tradesmen who knew Mr. Morton by sight and had seen him on the morning of the 17th walking with the accused.

  • You must get out and wait for a way train," said the passengers, who knew.

  • They said it must always come once to every man and woman--this witchery, this dark sweet feeling, springing up, who knew how or why?

  • It was nearly the time of falling leaves when the woman, who knew herself to be a woman, knocked at one of those doors, at which she did not wish to knock, and was admitted.

  • So it was that this woman, who knew herself to be a woman, did not crave Knowledge, but Ignorance.

  • Goupil, who knew nothing of her nature, delicate as that of a flower, had found, with the instinct of evil, the poison that could wither and destroy her.

  • But, unfortunately, he told us nothing; he ran into debt of his own accord, and even involved himself for me, who knew nothing of his pecuniary position.

  • Your neighbour here is a most worthy man; a man of good society, who knew it as it was before the Revolution, who was once an atheist, and is now an earnest Catholic.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after considerable; gone away; poor thing; who gave; who had been appointed; who knows; who never; who seems; who took; who were; who will; whoever thou; whole milk; whole night; whole series; wholly thine; whom they; whome they; whose every; whose family; whose father; whose favor; whose memory; whose power; whose sight; whosoever shall