Example sentences of "as far as he could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The figure in the seat was human , as far as he could make out in the murky light , but there was something about the awkward way it was sprawled in the chair that made him glad he could n't see it any clearer . |
| 2 | ‘ Trusts you about as far as he could spit , ’ Bicker finished . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's just phoned from the car to say that as far as he could tell Harry had nothing to do with it . |
| 4 | He became less scared and , even though the blows and parries were , as far as he could tell , ever changing , he became bored . |
| 5 | As far as he could tell no one was following him . |
| 6 | As far as he could tell they were not his constituents . |
| 7 | They were working through the buildings quickly and , as far as he could tell , efficiently . |
| 8 | But he decided against it : the mood was not upon him — nor upon anyone else in the coach , as far as he could gather . |
| 9 | ‘ The problem with casting myself as the male version of Calypso is that I doubt if Ulysses trusted her as far as he could throw her . ’ |
| 10 | Lying under that police car just now , he knew he had gone down about as far as he could go , had expected to be caught , done for . |
| 11 | Like someone pulling a blanket over his head and defying nature to do its worst , he sank and pushed himself down as far as he could go . |
| 12 | But having let himself sink as far as he could go , he began to rise and with such gathering force and fury that he not only routed all who had disbelieved in him , he left even the believers agape . |
| 13 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 14 | As far as he could recall , the tree people had died out centuries before . |
| 15 | He had questioned Ashenden in detail for several minutes about the crucial phone call with Kemp , and asked him to write down in dialogue-form the exchanges as far as he could recall them . |
| 16 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
| 17 | He followed her through to the kitchen where , as far as he could see , she was still in operatic mode . |
| 18 | There were , as far as he could see , none . |
| 19 | As far as he could see the car was undamaged , except for the inside of the driver 's door , which was dented and tom . |
| 20 | Juron stared up the tube as far as he could see , and nodded . |
| 21 | As far as he could see back up the Basra road were the headless date palms , lopped by the shrapnel . |
| 22 | There was , as far as he could see , nothing that need be identified or admired or paused over : just bare grey rock sheering down to a narrow track which was used for the most part by packhorses and even then not often . |
| 23 | The river — it stretched away as far as he could see in either direction , and could not therefore be a lake — was very wide . |
| 24 | Not a trace of the search or the find remained — or not as far as he could see . |
| 25 | There was nothing to reach for , no aching energy of ambition to move him ; as far as he could see , he was just kicking around in medium comfort and waiting to get old and die . |
| 26 | As far as he could see , Viola Machin 's marriage had followed a familiar pattern : begun from sheer sexual passion , aggravated by loneliness and perhaps desertion , it had quickly gone sour ; it sounded as if Viola had suffered disillusion and frustration — the sexual side had not proved enough , and other aspirations , social ones perhaps , or aspirations of Walter making a mark in the literary world , had not been fulfilled . |
| 27 | From the concealment of the doorway , his feverish eyes examined the street as far as he could see . |
| 28 | As far as he could see , Maisie , who was now thoroughly disorientated , was headed for the pond in the centre of the Common . |
| 29 | There was , as far as he could see , no one else on the Common . |
| 30 | As far as he could see , not one angel perched on their peaks . |