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Example sentences for "everybody knew"

  • Everybody knew, though nobody said it, that something, it was impossible to guess what, was not quite right with the poor little Prince.

  • As soon as Leander appeared there in his usual habit, everybody knew him; all the officers and soldiers surrounded him, uttering the loudest acclamations of joy.

  • All great soldiers, they said, had great noses, as everybody knew.

  • But Jun--he had his own little way of doing business, everybody knew.

  • When I got up I told the duke that I intended to set out from Naples the next day; and he observed that as everybody knew I was on the eve of my departure, this haste would make people talk.

  • Everybody knew that I had sprained my ankle; the chaplain, the surgeon, my body-servant, and several others swore that at midnight I was in bed suffering from colic.

  • Everybody knew it, and everybody said it.

  • Everybody knew me there, and everybody had the right to know me.

  • Everybody knew "Mliss," as she was called, throughout the length and height of Red Mountain.

  • Everybody knew her as an incorrigible girl.

  • Everybody knew "M'liss," as she was called, throughout the length and height of Red Mountain.

  • But John was prudent, as well as brave: besides, "everybody knew him.

  • Everybody knew him, everybody greeted him, everybody smiled as he passed--as though his presence and his recognition were good things to have and to win.

  • Everybody knew who Mr. Twist was; who, however, were the Twinklers?

  • Everybody knew about Mr. Twist, and it wasn't likely he would choose an hotel of so high a class to stay in if his relations to the Miss Twinklers were anything but regular.

  • Everybody knew this, and it was perfectly natural for a well-off Easterner to have a little place out West, even if the choice of the little place was whimsical.

  • He pointed out that the purchase by members of the Georgia Legislature of the lands sold was nothing unusual--everybody knew "that had been the case in Pennsylvania and other states.

  • Everybody knew that "a set of busy people .

  • Then, too, everybody knew "that one session of a Legislature cannot annul the contracts made by the preceding session"; for did not the National Constitution forbid any State from passing a law impairing the obligation of contracts?

  • He had wished to get away from Dunport; he had not room there; everybody knew him as well as they knew the courthouse; he somehow wanted to get to deeper water, and out of his depth, and then swim for it with the rest.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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