Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] he know " in BNC.

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1 It was something which Morton itched to do — perhaps only because he knew it was impossible .
2 In the ensuing hours and days he would get to know Francis Garland perhaps better than he knew many of his colleagues and acquaintances .
3 The homosexual male is fine — is pretty good news , in fact , on the whole — so long as he knows he 's homosexual .
4 He will never be content , so long as he knows that he is in our debt . ’
5 So far as he knew , no photograph had ever been taken of Horowitz .
6 So far as he knew , everything that had been transcribed had been lodged with Jackson 's , in copy .
7 But I think he has told us truly , so far as he knows truth .
8 In academic terms he sensed the changes in the wind so well that he knew exactly when to stop dropping the name Marcuse and start dropping the name Goldmann , when to switch from expressing genuine enthusiasm for Black Studies to expressing genuine enthusiasm for women 's literature .
9 And he knew I did n't have to be home for the kids or whatever , he knew my circumstances so well and he knew th exactly how much he could use me you know .
10 Monza was to be decisive for his championship , and Ken Tyrrell has written that it was Jackie 's finest race , not least because he knew he led the championship and because , having already decided to retire , he needed to do no more than the minimum , particularly since he was starting only from sixth place on the grid .
11 Gerd regards any intrusion here as evidence that the adventurers are hostile , and he wo n't co-operate any further if he knows they have forced their way in here .
12 They were nearly home now and he knew that once inside the house , she would dose the front door symbolically on all that had happened .
13 Eliot by writing as badly as he knew how … . ’ )
14 ‘ His father pointed them out to him often enough and he knew that things would drop on him from a great height if he put a foot wrong . ’
15 So he just smiled as enigmatically as he knew how , and pocketed the drinks key .
16 As far as he knew , the practice had now ceased .
17 But of course he did n't have anything to lose , as far as he knew .
18 Occasionally she would receive a postcard , coloured views usually of London with nondescript , meaningless messages , but as far as he knew she never replied .
19 Those were the facts , as far as he knew them up to this moment .
20 Mary was the only one of them , as far as he knew , who had ever walked to the village and walked about in the village when she got there .
21 The bodies were discovered at eight forty-five on the morning of Wednesday 18 September by Miss Emily Wharton , a 65-year-old spinster of the parish of St Matthew 's in Paddington , London , and Darren Wilkes , aged 10 , of no particular parish as far as he knew or cared .
22 As far as he knew , no one had slept in either bed since his mother 's parents died .
23 He did n't like lying to her but thought it inadvisable to tell her that there was no rescue ship hurrying to the scene and that , as far as he knew , the only other people who knew of the disaster were the NATO HQ in Italy .
24 It was all over months ago and , as far as he knew , with no hard feelings .
25 As far as he knew , she had received no training for this type of situation .
26 He just sat there jiggling his bloody spectacles and saying that as far as he knew it was n't . ’
27 and Graham was hardly ever directly involved — he had , for example , only ever met one of Slater 's ( supposedly many ) lovers , at least as far as he knew .
28 As far as he knew , the MP had not been interviewed about the case .
29 She had , as far as he knew , no reason to be curious , and therefore no reason to dissemble her curiosity .
30 But neither he nor Maisie , as far as he knew , had spoken of what had happened at Hasan 's Occultation .
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