Example sentences of "as [pers pn] had 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 | There was no going back now , no way to rewrite the years as she had known them . |
| 3 | As long as she had known her , Eve had hardly ever told a lie . |
| 4 | In practice , she quickly found , as she had known she would , that the method was hopelessly inappropriate for this particular study . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She stood back and watched him approach the three headstones , saw him touch them as gently as she had known he would . |
| 7 | She was quiet as they made their way to the beach , which was every bit as packed as she had known it would be . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Jamie was as appalled as she had known he would be , his blue eyes glittering with hatred as he spoke through his teeth . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | There was , he said , a triumphalist literature which celebrated the end of the struggle as we had known it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The results were negative as they had known they would be : Dr Wickram had been positive that they contained no timing devices . |
| 14 | Anne Nielson was an extraordinary woman , as he had known for years . |
| 15 | He let himself think , as he had not done for many years , of Célestine , of their year together in London , and as he had known it would , the memory made him deeply unhappy . |
| 16 | Everything here fed his masochism — as he had known instinctively that it would when he applied for a similar position in the English coalfields some years before , only to be told that he was not mature enough . |
| 17 | He was engulfed once more in an indescribable peace , and knew again , as he had known at dawn on the outskirts of Zweeloo , that he belonged to life , that the primal desire of man is to come into being , to achieve this peace . |
| 18 | Having finished his dinner the candidate retired to the spick and span little room no bigger than a cubbyhole they had placed at his disposal and , when he had put his thoughts and his speeches in good order , stepped out for a breath of air , a short stroll which led him — as he had known it would — to the newly painted door of Odette Adeane . |
| 19 | A police officer told the court he was sure it was Betteridge whom he saw in Houndgate , Darlington , at 11.50pm on Saturday as he had known him since he was 15 . |