Example sentences of "as [conj] it know " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was as if it knew exactly where to go . ’ |
| 2 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 3 | But the voice that had spoken waited , as if it knew that eventually Creggan would speak the truth . |
| 4 | It had been saddled up ready for him and as Li Yuan stood there , it turned its head curiously , its large dark eyes meeting the prince 's as if it knew its new owner . |
| 5 | In the far corner , the cat cowered as if it knew it was in the presence of death . |