Example sentences of "as [pron] know [pron] [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I knew you were still in the study . ’ |
| 2 | As far as I know there was never any shortage of money — our fathers sent sums regularly back from England — and I , being the youngest , was the centre of attention . |
| 3 | So far as she knew they were only the result of an innocent friendship , so why Feargal 's anger ? |
| 4 | Mala blinked , and grew paler , but quickly assured him that as far as she knew it was just a coincidence . |
| 5 | It must be remembered , of course , that Greek writing throughout the classical period was still relatively difficult to decipher as words were not regularly separated ; the copying of manuscripts was a long and laborious process ; and that silent reading as we know it was very rare ; until the advent of printing in the ancient world books were used mainly for reading aloud , often by a slave . |
| 6 | So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change . |
| 7 | As far as we know there were only two places where he was likely to feel sufficiently at home to take his jacket off — in his own house and at Laura Passmore 's . ’ |
| 8 | He 'd made no attempt to hold back as he knew there was more to come . |