Example sentences of "as i know " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next day , although I sprayed the pests , as I knew I must , I stood at arm 's length from the compost heap and wore jeans and high-rise trainers . |
| 2 | Self-cleaning oven so far as I knew . |
| 3 | This followed my 1981 legislation which had introduced the first road-safety measures for fifteen years and was used ( as I knew it would be ) to introduce compulsory seat-belts . |
| 4 | As far as I knew , he was the only American student in the Arts Faculty . |
| 5 | But as far as I knew , he had no other friends in Salamanca , though he had only to lift his little finger and both men and women would have come running at his bidding . |
| 6 | Aunt Louise was always telling me to put more coal on the fire — higher and higher up the chimney which , as I knew , needed sweeping . |
| 7 | There was no home leave from overseas and , as far as I knew , few individuals or units of the Eighth Army had returned to Britain , for most had been sent to Sicily and thence to the toe and heel of Italy , or to Salerno , and by this time were fighting hard up the Italian peninsula on one or other side of the Appennines . |
| 8 | However , because I knew her at close quarters only during her maiden years and have not seen her once since she went to the West Country to become ‘ Mrs Benn ’ , you will perhaps excuse my impropriety in referring to her as I knew her , and in my mind have continued to call her throughout these years . |
| 9 | ‘ So far as I knew I had attended to every trifling detail , yet every plan , every hope , seemed to be going wrong . |
| 10 | This was at first very difficult because he knew as little English as I knew German . |
| 11 | So far as I knew there was no Indian name for Moose Jaw , but I had a brain-wave that might help . |
| 12 | The ward had been full , the nurses worked off their feet , but their care for me — and as far as I knew for the others — had been magnificent . |
| 13 | I was weak , highly emotional , but as far as I knew , well . |
| 14 | So far as I knew I covered the area around my bowels , liver , one kidney and all the other bits and pieces that make up a living abdomen . |
| 15 | I wondered , to quote a phrase used by Greg fifteen years before , was this going to be ‘ the end of family life as I knew it ’ ? |
| 16 | I then slowly walked along Fulham Broadway in the complete darkness , as I knew the road past Halford School would be safe with the clergy around . |
| 17 | I was pleased when he asked me to do the test-flying programme for him and I had no qualms in agreeing , as I knew him to be a meticulous engineer . |
| 18 | He went off with a medium spring to his step and I saw him later with his arms round Donna 's shoulders , which was n't ( as far as I knew ) in his script . |
| 19 | It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s . |
| 20 | He did n't smoke , did n't drink and , as far as I knew , had n't put his biology theory into practice since my Grandmother 's death in 1953 . |
| 21 | Sir Eustace Maxwell has turned traitor , as I knew he would , and has joined Balliol 's host there , with his own people from Caerlaverock and Dumfries and also the Comyn and Balliol levies from Galloway . |
| 22 | He looked at his watch and told me , yet as far as I knew he had never heard that language before . |
| 23 | Richard had never done anything like this , nor would he : even if he had been unfaithful to me — though as far as I knew , he never had — he would never humiliate me publicly . |
| 24 | This scared him , as I knew it would . |
| 25 | ‘ I was n't worried as soon as I knew we had a home draw . |
| 26 | As soon as I knew she was n't a hundred per cent , I just did n't want to know her … |
| 27 | These bunkers , beautifully trimmed around the edges and beautifully raked , looked innocent and defenceless — an illusion , as I knew , brought on by the fresh and shining morning . |
| 28 | I had n't , as far as I knew , done anything to harm him , and his words rankled . |
| 29 | Sid gave a growl and informed that as I knew nothing about modern techniques he had brought ‘ the lot . ’ |
| 30 | But his questions were at once crucifying me as much as I knew they were of help . |