Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [pron] knew " in BNC.
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| 1 | The catapult ought to be safe so long as nobody knew its name . |
| 2 | The hearing began on 29 June at which time , so far as we knew , W. 's condition was stable or deteriorating only slowly , although there had been some further loss of weight . |
| 3 | Now , so far as they knew , both children were dead . |
| 4 | It was difficult for them to appreciate that [ h ] -loss could ever have been anything else but a stigmatized form : in so far as they knew of evidence for it in earlier centuries , they tended to dismiss it , seemingly in the belief that ‘ vulgar ’ and ‘ careless ’ usage is not implicated in linguistic change . |
| 5 | Molly remembered the note still stuck , so far as she knew , opposite ‘ The Flagellation ’ in the Piero della Francesca book . |
| 6 | Some fat old hag in a dirty apron came and said so far as she knew you were in hospital . |
| 7 | Not entirely sure if she was being teased or not , because so far as she knew the Irish did indeed take leprechauns very seriously , she gave a weak smile . |
| 8 | So far as she knew they were only the result of an innocent friendship , so why Feargal 's anger ? |
| 9 | Self-cleaning oven so far as I knew . |
| 10 | ‘ So far as I knew I had attended to every trifling detail , yet every plan , every hope , seemed to be going wrong . |
| 11 | So far as I knew there was no Indian name for Moose Jaw , but I had a brain-wave that might help . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So far as he knew , no photograph had ever been taken of Horowitz . |
| 14 | So far as he knew , everything that had been transcribed had been lodged with Jackson 's , in copy . |
| 15 | Eliot by writing as badly as he knew how … . ’ ) |
| 16 | So he just smiled as enigmatically as he knew how , and pocketed the drinks key . |
| 17 | The fingers tightened round her arm , biting deep into her flesh as she continued to struggle , and Fran knew as clearly as she knew her own name that he had no intention of letting her go . |
| 18 | Fran knew that just as clearly as she knew her own name . |
| 19 | As far as everyone knew , he had been the last person to see Zambia at the Club . |
| 20 | Now we were to try something which , as far as we knew , had n't been offered to the viewers before . |
| 21 | Our captivity had never been linked to theirs , as far as we knew . |
| 22 | As far as we knew , Frank had never been claimed and , having been quite cut off in Lebanon for a number of years before his kidnap , had less ‘ publicity ’ value than the other Yanks . |
| 23 | As far as we knew every previous expedition had ferried the sheep by dinghy , a tedious operation which must have been hard on both men and sheep , to say nothing of the dinghy . |
| 24 | They were also content to leave the whole affair as far as they knew it , understood it or had allocated the blame for it . |
| 25 | As far as they knew , these 570 people were off to a temperance rally at Loughborough ; most of them were probably unaware that they were taking part in an historical journey — Thomas Cook 's first excursion in 1841 . |
| 26 | According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home . |
| 27 | As far as she knew porpoises were the most intelligent . |
| 28 | There was no other visible sign in any of the family , as far as she knew , now Robin was dead ; poor Robin . |
| 29 | Mrs Murphy snatched the opportunity to ask Mrs Frizzell to proceed with her report , which she did , outlining the story as far as she knew it and using as many euphemisms as she could . |
| 30 | As far as she knew there were no calls condemning the DJ 's behaviour . |