Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] [pron] know [adv] " in BNC.

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1 As for the ideal consistency of a tomato sauce to go with , or to be incorporated in , any given dish , a cookery-student 's thesis could be written on the subject , and for all I know already has been .
2 It had , and for all I know still has , laboratories on the ground floor , with bronzed taps and bunsen burners .
3 Nicky had ( and for all I know still has ) the reputation of being the best criminal defence lawyer at the Scottish bar and had on several occasions persuaded juries to acquit those whom he had every reason to believe were guilty .
4 It is on a vast scale though : Franz Schrader , the first great cartographer of these mountains , estimated that it would hold twenty million people ; modern guidebooks have cut this number churlishly , and for all I know realistically down to three million .
5 As Sister Cecilia was to say to her , one could live without reading , writing , or arithmetic , sewing , singing or geography ; and yes — there would be a twinkle in her eye — with some , even without the good God ; but one could n't live without food and without those who knew how to make it appetising to the tongue .
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