Example sentences of "as [adv] [subord] he knew " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot by writing as badly as he knew how … . ’ ) |
| 2 | So he just smiled as enigmatically as he knew how , and pocketed the drinks key . |
| 3 | As far as he knew , the practice had now ceased . |
| 4 | But of course he did n't have anything to lose , as far as he knew . |
| 5 | Occasionally she would receive a postcard , coloured views usually of London with nondescript , meaningless messages , but as far as he knew she never replied . |
| 6 | Those were the facts , as far as he knew them up to this moment . |
| 7 | Mary was the only one of them , as far as he knew , who had ever walked to the village and walked about in the village when she got there . |
| 8 | The bodies were discovered at eight forty-five on the morning of Wednesday 18 September by Miss Emily Wharton , a 65-year-old spinster of the parish of St Matthew 's in Paddington , London , and Darren Wilkes , aged 10 , of no particular parish as far as he knew or cared . |
| 9 | As far as he knew , no one had slept in either bed since his mother 's parents died . |
| 10 | He did n't like lying to her but thought it inadvisable to tell her that there was no rescue ship hurrying to the scene and that , as far as he knew , the only other people who knew of the disaster were the NATO HQ in Italy . |
| 11 | It was all over months ago and , as far as he knew , with no hard feelings . |
| 12 | As far as he knew , she had received no training for this type of situation . |
| 13 | He just sat there jiggling his bloody spectacles and saying that as far as he knew it was n't . ’ |
| 14 | and Graham was hardly ever directly involved — he had , for example , only ever met one of Slater 's ( supposedly many ) lovers , at least as far as he knew . |
| 15 | As far as he knew , the MP had not been interviewed about the case . |
| 16 | She had , as far as he knew , no reason to be curious , and therefore no reason to dissemble her curiosity . |
| 17 | But neither he nor Maisie , as far as he knew , had spoken of what had happened at Hasan 's Occultation . |
| 18 | No , he had n't but as far as he knew there was no music on there still . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm sure he 'll be released very soon now , ’ Zen said as reassuringly as he knew how . |
| 20 | He knew the trees and waterfalls as well as he knew his own children . |
| 21 | She thought she could know him as well as he knew himself . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One day I asked him if he knew Fanny 's young man , and he said he knew him as well as he knew himself ! ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A voice that Rex knew almost as well as he knew his own . |
| 26 | He knew that face almost as well as he knew his own . |