Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] i knew " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self-cleaning oven so far as I knew . |
| 2 | ‘ So far as I knew I had attended to every trifling detail , yet every plan , every hope , seemed to be going wrong . |
| 3 | So far as I knew there was no Indian name for Moose Jaw , but I had a brain-wave that might help . |
| 4 | So far as I knew I covered the area around my bowels , liver , one kidney and all the other bits and pieces that make up a living abdomen . |
| 5 | Ordinary kids might go robbing or beating up old ladies , something like that ; I used to come down here 'cause I knew that was n't the right way to let out the aggression . |
| 6 | ‘ I tell you , boy , we are engaged with more even than I knew . |
| 7 | Now only if I knew Jamie Forrester tickets may not be such a problem at times … |
| 8 | As far as I knew , he was the only American student in the Arts Faculty . |
| 9 | But as far as I knew , he had no other friends in Salamanca , though he had only to lift his little finger and both men and women would have come running at his bidding . |
| 10 | There was no home leave from overseas and , as far as I knew , few individuals or units of the Eighth Army had returned to Britain , for most had been sent to Sicily and thence to the toe and heel of Italy , or to Salerno , and by this time were fighting hard up the Italian peninsula on one or other side of the Appennines . |
| 11 | The ward had been full , the nurses worked off their feet , but their care for me — and as far as I knew for the others — had been magnificent . |
| 12 | I was weak , highly emotional , but as far as I knew , well . |
| 13 | He went off with a medium spring to his step and I saw him later with his arms round Donna 's shoulders , which was n't ( as far as I knew ) in his script . |
| 14 | He did n't smoke , did n't drink and , as far as I knew , had n't put his biology theory into practice since my Grandmother 's death in 1953 . |
| 15 | He looked at his watch and told me , yet as far as I knew he had never heard that language before . |
| 16 | Richard had never done anything like this , nor would he : even if he had been unfaithful to me — though as far as I knew , he never had — he would never humiliate me publicly . |
| 17 | I had n't , as far as I knew , done anything to harm him , and his words rankled . |
| 18 | As far as I knew he 'd always been on the level , and certainly there was no harm in his treating the Fraser girl after the shock she 'd presumably had . |
| 19 | As far as I knew he 's at present on the Charlotte T. — all our ships are called something T. , as you probably know — on a trip to Hamburg . " |
| 20 | The Carolans were subject to much exposure in the Press , and as far as I knew there had never been any newspaper gossip which even hinted at any sort of rift between them . |
| 21 | As far as I knew , she 'd either thrown away or burnt Dad 's possessions — ’ |
| 22 | Do n't you see , as far as I knew , I was the first man ever to be displaced in time , though no doubt the timeslips were now making a regular thing of it . |
| 23 | As far as I knew you were still in the study . ’ |
| 24 | though as far as I knew |
| 25 | As far as I knew . |
| 26 | I knew that voice almost as well as I knew the theme from Doctor Zhivago . |
| 27 | I thought at the time she sounded a bit over anxious to explain why she had n't told us before , but it was n't long before I knew why . ’ |
| 28 | I lay on my back and watched it for a second , then got up and ran after her as fast as I could , again just because I knew I could n't catch her . |