Example sentences of "far [adv] [conj] i can [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | There also the old folks , as far back as I can recollect , the meeting place of young and old on New Year 's Day to play shinty . |
2 | There also the old folks , as far back as I can recollect , the meeting place of young and old on New Year 's Day to play shinty . |
3 | ‘ My mother sang — and music was the most important thing in my life , from as far back as I can remember . |
4 | ‘ As far back as I can remember , ’ he confides , ‘ I always wanted to be a gangster . ’ |
5 | Now that applies to any matter arising , and subsequently I think that er the Donovan Report more or less reinforced er that particular er er procedure , although it had been written into our national agreement er as far back as I can remember . |
6 | I think as far back as I can remember I was organising a group and telling people what to do . " |
7 | ‘ As far back as I can remember , ’ he confides , ‘ I always wanted to be a gangster . ’ |
8 | ‘ My mother 's knitted for all of us as far back as I can remember , but she acknowledged defeat on this one . ’ |
9 | This may well be a little rose-tinted , but that weighty , bulldog clip-around-the-nose sensation appears to have been with me and indeed to have shaped me — not only me , but my nose ; not only my nose , but my personality — for as far back as I can see . |
10 | I do not want to play games in colour on my TV , I can do household accounts with a piece of paper and a pencil , I can learn languages easier from a book and a tape recorder , if I want information I can look it up and read it far faster than I can get it from a screen and I can turn back with a nip of the finger and read it again . |