Example sentences of "[adv] far as [pron] knew [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as she knew they were only the result of an innocent friendship , so why Feargal 's anger ? |
| 2 | Some fat old hag in a dirty apron came and said so far as she knew you were in hospital . |
| 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 I covered the area around my bowels , liver , one kidney and all the other bits and pieces that make up a living abdomen . |
| 5 | They were also content to leave the whole affair as far as they knew it , understood it or had allocated the blame for it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mala blinked , and grew paler , but quickly assured him that as far as she knew it was just a coincidence . |
| 8 | It was dangerous because it left her at his mercy and as far as she knew he had none . |
| 9 | He looked at his watch and told me , yet as far as I knew he had never heard that language before . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . " |
| 12 | As far as I knew you were still in the study . ’ |
| 13 | Those were the facts , as far as he knew them up to this moment . |
| 14 | He just sat there jiggling his bloody spectacles and saying that as far as he knew it was n't . ’ |
| 15 | Occasionally she would receive a postcard , coloured views usually of London with nondescript , meaningless messages , but as far as he knew she never replied . |
| 16 | They had returned to the Operations Room , where Bernice was surprised to hear Ace 's voice — as far as anyone knew she was recovering with the rest of her party on Moloch — and even more surprised to hear it raised in anger and directed at — of all people — the Doctor . |