Example sentences of "but [adv] far as i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The identification is often questioned , but so far as I can see on no adequate grounds . |
| 2 | He was immensely well-read on political history in the nineteenth century and more recent times , and he deployed a memory of fantastic accuracy , but so far as I could judge he had read virtually nothing else . |
| 3 | His mother says that he talked to her about it and she tried to convince him that he was misinterpreting what he had seen and heard , but as far as I can learn John never mentioned it to anyone else until late in life , when telling Dr Schäfer about the thoughts which led him to make his ballet Spuren . |
| 4 | True , the attraction of becoming ‘ British ’ is a big one , but as far as I can see it is the only one . |
| 5 | I suppose there must be some records in a dusty file somewhere of how often the ground crews lost the race against time and had the aircraft and bombs blow up in front of them , but as far as I can recollect this never happened at Bourn , at least not while I was there , and we were thankful to get through each busy night without catastrophes of that kind . |
| 6 | Writes all day long , but as far as I can see never sells a word . |
| 7 | " It 's a funny thing , but as far as I can see the shipping company is the only reputable part of the whole business . |
| 8 | I do n't often buy paper from the School Lodge , but as far as I can remember Recycled paper costs more than Ordinary Paper . |
| 9 | Our Tory MP did jump off his LandRover to shake my hand and take one of my leaflets the other day , but as far as I could tell I was the only voter he met that morning . |
| 10 | But as far as I could make out the Ambassador was away . |
| 11 | My head was n't really in the right state for assimilating all this stuff , but as far as I could gather , Uncle Rory had been trying for years to come up with something Creative ( his capital , his italics ) . |