Example sentences of "as i know [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his questions were at once crucifying me as much as I knew they were of help . |
| 2 | ‘ I was n't worried as soon as I knew we had a home draw . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In reflecting on Basil as a person , I can only make comment as I knew him , over a dozen years or so and , during which time , I can not recall one unkind word or act he ever directed towards me . |
| 5 | I can still picture him as I knew him , his sensitive , ascetic face etched with lines of pain but lit by his innate kindliness , his lean body in comfortable country tweeds . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Anyway , on coming into Heriot 's , I stuck to Sarah , as I knew her , + a feud arose between me and the girl who was Sarah 's best friend at the time . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ ? |
| 10 | It is worlds apart from school as I knew it in the 1960s . |
| 11 | This scared him , as I knew it would . |
| 12 | ‘ Sweet , ’ he murmured , ‘ as sweet as I knew it would be . ’ |
| 13 | As soon as I knew she was n't a hundred per cent , I just did n't want to know her … |
| 14 | She merely snorted , as I knew she would , and stared moodily at the blank of the comm . |
| 15 | ‘ Why lucky ? ’ she asked , as I knew she would . |
| 16 | As far as I knew you were still in the study . ’ |
| 17 | I spoke to her last night as soon as I knew you were OK , but she 'll need to hear from you . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ So far as I knew I had attended to every trifling detail , yet every plan , every hope , seemed to be going wrong . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ( This evening — as I knew I would and could — I coaxed and bullied him , and he wrote out a cheque for a hundred pounds , which he 's promised to send off tomorrow . |
| 22 | I was so disgusted with myself that I wanted to make myself suffer even more when I did — as I knew I would — break my word . |
| 23 | ‘ There was a lot of pressure to make that birdie as I knew I was near the cut , ’ said Ballesteros , who is battling to emerge from a spell of wretched form . |
| 24 | So , it was , it was , I , a as soon as I knew I 'd be teaching this I thought the only way |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He looked at his watch and told me , yet as far as I knew he had never heard that language before . |
| 27 | As far as I knew he 'd always been on the level , and certainly there was no harm in his treating the Fraser girl after the shock she 'd presumably had . |
| 28 | I could no longer talk or laugh freely , as I knew he only approved of serious moods and studies . |
| 29 | As far as I knew he 's at present on the Charlotte T. — all our ships are called something T. , as you probably know — on a trip to Hamburg . " |
| 30 | He rolled it between two fingers and tapped it on a thumbnail and generally fondled it as I knew he would for a good five minutes before lighting it . |