Example sentences of "as [pron] knew how " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her body knew his touch , just as she knew how to touch him to make his heart beat , feel his pulse quicken . |
| 2 | She was furious because I would n't do what she wanted and paid me back as spitefully as she knew how . |
| 3 | They had won , as they will always have to , against the odds , but they did it by capitalising on their best players , by utilising every ounce of available experience and by trying as hard as they knew how . |
| 4 | There 'd be other people come and had we 'd show them round the darkroom and teach them how to print , how to take pictures , and as soon as they knew how to do that , they 'd fall off and go away . |
| 5 | Eliot by writing as badly as he knew how … . ’ ) |
| 6 | The great dragon was angry but courteous , and he woke them up in as mannerly a way as he knew how . |
| 7 | ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’ |
| 8 | He had declined , trying to be as tactful as he knew how . |
| 9 | Doublethink had entered so completely into Ceauşescu 's soul by the 1980s that he could genuinely bask in what he took to be sincere affection at the same time as he knew how stage-managed the whole event was . |
| 10 | So he just smiled as enigmatically as he knew how , and pocketed the drinks key . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm sure he 'll be released very soon now , ’ Zen said as reassuringly as he knew how . |