Example sentences of "[adv] well as [pron] knew " in BNC.

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1 She knew it almost as well as she knew London .
2 He knew the trees and waterfalls as well as he knew his own children .
3 She thought she could know him as well as he knew himself .
4 Memories of shared evenings , with cans of beer and football on the TV , flooded back to Bodie ; shared hours with Ray Doyle , mad pursuits , of cars , of women , shared jokes , anger , support ; he knew this small apartment almost as well as he knew his own .
5 One day I asked him if he knew Fanny 's young man , and he said he knew him as well as he knew himself ! ’
6 Fergus , who had stormed castles and laid siege to fortresses and who knew the arts of infiltration as well as he knew the Twelve Books of Honour , found himself summoning every shred and every tag-end of legend and myth and lore ever whispered or recounted or imagined about the Prison .
7 A voice that Rex knew almost as well as he knew his own .
8 He knew that face almost as well as he knew his own .
9 I knew that voice almost as well as I knew the theme from Doctor Zhivago .
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