Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] i knew " in BNC.

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1 I loved him so much that I knew it would be all right .
2 Self-cleaning oven so far as I knew .
3 So far as I knew I had attended to every trifling detail , yet every plan , every hope , seemed to be going wrong .
4 So far as I knew there was no Indian name for Moose Jaw , but I had a brain-wave that might help .
5 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 .
6 It had been running through my thoughts so often that I knew it by heart , yet now I was suddenly afraid that I might do the wrong thing !
7 I called , and Crispin answered , so cheerfully that I knew all was well .
8 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 .
9 He thought : I knew this man , not well but I knew him .
10 ‘ I tell you , boy , we are engaged with more even than I knew .
11 Now only if I knew Jamie Forrester tickets may not be such a problem at times …
12 I pulled the knife out slightly but I knew she was dead . ’
13 As far as I knew , he was the only American student in the Arts Faculty .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 I was weak , highly emotional , but as far as I knew , well .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 He looked at his watch and told me , yet as far as I knew he had never heard that language before .
21 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 .
22 I had n't , as far as I knew , done anything to harm him , and his words rankled .
23 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 .
24 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 . "
25 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 .
26 As far as I knew , she 'd either thrown away or burnt Dad 's possessions — ’
27 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 .
28 As far as I knew you were still in the study . ’
29 though as far as I knew
30 As far as I knew .
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