Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [was/were] know [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( I had taken to climbing over the railings of the barracks each night , as the watchmen on the gate had been forbidden to let me in as I was known to be sleeping there . |
| 2 | I suppose he thought I was not giving of my best , and as I was known as a rather shy , reserved sort , he had decided that a quiet word at an informal moment would be the best approach . |
| 3 | Carol 's dancing and her sister Suzette 's acting provided the inspiration for the Minogue sisters — Danielle or Dannii as she was known in the clan was also showing signs of talent — and the pair loved nothing better than play acting at home . |
| 4 | How they were used is not generally agreed upon , for , whilst the obverse of some of these cards — ‘ shopkeepers ' bills ’ as they were known by the eighteenth-century tradesmen — were sometimes utilized as an invoice to the purchaser , the majority surviving in public and private collections were not . |
| 5 | Leeds City , or the Peacocks as they were known from the gold V-shaped band on their blue strip , climbed to a more secure position in mid-table in the months after Chapman took over . |
| 6 | But the welfare of home students , as they were known after 1889 , was her particular concern ; in 1894 she was appointed by the AEW as their principal , a post which she held on a voluntary basis until 1921 . |
| 7 | By contrast Engels 's position was that the family , as it was known in his time , had not always existed in that form , that marriage as it was known at that time had also not always existed . |
| 8 | The overall loss of reading time , and even the loss of the reading habit as it was known to earlier generations , should not be underestimated . |
| 9 | Illustrated in a multitude of colourful paint schemes are the Super Sabre , Voodoo , Delta Dagger ( or Duce as it was known to its crews ) , Starfighter , Thunderchief and Delta Dart . |
| 10 | Archer Road or ‘ The Street ’ as it was known by all who lived in it , was a bit like the curate 's egg : bits of it were good and bits of it were bad , very bad . |
| 11 | By contrast Engels 's position was that the family , as it was known in his time , had not always existed in that form , that marriage as it was known at that time had also not always existed . |
| 12 | Thus practice and theory were often far apart , in this and in other ways , even in the classical feudalism , feudalism as it was known in the north of France between the ninth and the twelfth century . |
| 13 | She uses only the pinhole camera or , as it was known in pre-photographic times , the camera obscura . |
| 14 | In 1911 Law was known — in so far as he was known at all in the parliamentary party — as a spirited debater . |
| 15 | The search for soccer stories occupied a new breed of journalist — men like Alan Hoby , the self-styled ‘ Man Who Knows ’ , or the ‘ Man Who Knows F — All ’ as he was known to some of his readers . |
| 16 | Uncle Dickie , as he was known to the whole family , was a dynamic , tyrannical figure , full of energy , drive and ambition , who aroused strong passions in everyone who came into contact with him . |
| 17 | ‘ Hart ’ , as he was known to his friends , became severely deaf in early childhood , which caused him to become reserved and studious . |
| 18 | Archie McNeile , as he was known to the boys , was a wiry , upright figure with an alert , intelligent face . |
| 19 | Mercury , or Mercurius as he was known to the alchemists , had been much on her mind of late . |
| 20 | Gaunt , even spectral , the figure of Norman Tebbit ( ‘ Big Norm' as he was known to the irreverent , ‘ Little Norm ’ being Lamont , and ‘ Nice Norm ’ , Fowler ) stood in his place , waving a sheaf of papers . |
| 21 | ‘ Charlie ’ as he was known to everyone , joined Douglas Reyburn in 1940 and left shortly after when he was enlisted in the Army . |
| 22 | His tragic owner John Goult , or ‘ Old Jack ’ as he was known to neighbours , also knew the pet he adored was very sick but had tried to spare him from being put to sleep . |
| 23 | Len , as he was known to his legion of friends , was elected to Selkirk Town Council in 1956 and served on it for 18 years , as well as on the then county council for 14 years . |
| 24 | Although hailed by the leaders of the Catholic revival as their patron , ‘ the good Earl John ’ ( as he was known by them ) retained something of the recusant Catholic families ' suspicion of ‘ enthusiasm ’ , religious fervour , and triumphalism . |
| 25 | The defeat of Kan Ying — Domitian as he was known by his own people — had let the Han into Europe . |
| 26 | Adapted in Baghdad and Cairo , cross-fertilized with the ancient medical practices of Pharaonic Egypt , Sumeria , Assyria and Babylon , Unani medicine was finally codified into a cohesive system by the great Arab scholar Ibn Sina ( or Avicenna as he was known in the mediaeval west ) . |