Example sentences of "as [pers pn] have known " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew you were heading for Dublin , knew which hotel , because Donal had made a great point of telling me , and so , when the dinner I was at proved to be as boring and interminable as I had known it would , I left . |
| 2 | That such care may well characterize those activities which Scruton declares can not possess it is suggested by Andrew Lumsden 's appropriately passing remark on the casual , anonymous sexual encounter : ‘ for now I can only generalize : as I 've known it , men are never so peaceful , so unviolent ( physically and emotionally ) , so graceful with each other ( no matter how ‘ crude' ’ the act ) as they are — as we are — when content to take each other without the addition of names , or beds , or flats , or even of any clear impression of one-another 's looks ' ( Gay News , 235 ( Mar. 1982 ) , 17 ) . |
| 3 | Since I did n't know Jackie in his racing years , I can only speak of his character as I 've known it since I975 , a period by which he had already become obsessed with driver safety and a real force in improving conditions for drivers . |
| 4 | Everybody is contributing and the atmosphere in the side is as good as I 've known it . ’ |
| 5 | As long as I 've known you , you always give the subject of clothes the deep respect it deserves ! |
| 6 | If a man ca n't afford to go by automobile , and if he is content with eating and architecture , the world 's best ( as I have known it ) is afoot from Poitiers , from Brives , from Perigord or Limoges . |
| 7 | In Eretz family life will not be the same as you have known here in Cork or anywhere in the Diaspora because in the settlements women are involved in communal work just as much as the men are . |
| 8 | There was no going back now , no way to rewrite the years as she had known them . |
| 9 | As long as she had known her , Eve had hardly ever told a lie . |
| 10 | In practice , she quickly found , as she had known she would , that the method was hopelessly inappropriate for this particular study . |
| 11 | Candida Gray , Candida Gray , a name that she had known for as many years as she had known any such names ; she had not read as many of the novels as she ought to have done , but she had read one at least , and that one she actually remembered . |
| 12 | She stood back and watched him approach the three headstones , saw him touch them as gently as she had known he would . |
| 13 | She was quiet as they made their way to the beach , which was every bit as packed as she had known it would be . |
| 14 | There would be no clues , no fingerprints , nothing to lead the police to them , but she knew who they were , just as she had known last night who had wrecked her car . |
| 15 | Jamie was as appalled as she had known he would be , his blue eyes glittering with hatred as he spoke through his teeth . |
| 16 | She knew someone 's shaking hands were on Damian 's tie , pulling it loose , pushing his dark blue jacket to the floor , but they could n't be her hands — she would n't do such a thing ; and as their hoarse breathing mingled further she realised his shirt was completely unbuttoned and that she was staring at his bare chest and it was exactly as she had known it would be . |
| 17 | She panicked immediately , as we 'd known she would . |
| 18 | There was , he said , a triumphalist literature which celebrated the end of the struggle as we had known it . |
| 19 | This excellent system of continental escorting and fighting-off the Luftwaffe marked the beginning of the end for the Luftwaffe as we had known it up to the advent of the newly-engined Mustang . |
| 20 | That Madam , Gary used to say , she 's been forty for as long as we 've known her . |
| 21 | Which would raise the further question whether this way , as practised by Olson , and by Williams in Paterson , is n't so unlike the ways of poetry as we have known it that to call their works ‘ poems ’ does n't merely confuse the whole issue . |
| 22 | Rimbaud would seem to be especially culpable since ‘ the deconstructions of semantic forms , the destabilizations of meaning , as we have known them during the past decades , derive from Rimbaud 's dissolution of the self ’ . |
| 23 | In ballet , the Mariinsky ( or the Kirov , as we have known it since 1935 ) has an almost unassailable reputation , with the choreography of Marius Petipa as one of its foundations — as we saw in the pas de deux from Le Corsaire , danced brilliantly and poetically by Elvira Tarasova and Igor Zelensky , and in Diana and Actaeon , which highlighted the virile athleticism of Farukh Ruzimatov . |
| 24 | We have the possibilities of a postmodern , post-nationalist way of relating , but it seems to me that the prerequisite of that in these islands is the end of the United Kingdom as we have known it . |
| 25 | Readability , as we have known it , may not be dead , but the utility of formulae must continue to be seriously questioned in the light of current research findings . |
| 26 | In saying this , I am saying little more than that history , more or less as we have known it , will continue in the future ( if humanity has a future ) . |
| 27 | In 1931 a similar compilation Life as We Have Known It had an introduction by Margaret Llewelyn Davies 's close friend , Virginia Woolf [ q.v . ] . |
| 28 | The results were negative as they had known they would be : Dr Wickram had been positive that they contained no timing devices . |
| 29 | However one problem with this reparation scheme , as it 's known , is that the offender ca n't be forced to pay up . |
| 30 | One of the key techniques that Boyds wanted to encourage was deep cut or , as it 's known in the U S , extended cut . |