Example sentences of "as far as i could [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | The owner , a bachelor in his fifties , slept on a camp-bed in the vestibule of the hostel and cooked on a two ring stove in the courtyard , mostly a kind of vegetable stew as far as I could make out . |
2 | Oh , roamed about all over Earth , as far as I could make out , travelled on foot across huge mountain ranges and vast great deserts where nothing lived . |
3 | But as far as I could make out the Ambassador was away . |
4 | He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application . |
5 | As far as I could discover , there is no suggestion that the residents in the defined area for our research see themselves as constituting a socially relevant or meaningful whole . |
6 | I do n't trust anyone as far as I could throw them : it 's as simple as that . |
7 | As far as I could tell from a quick skim through , every meal was designed to act as an aphrodisiac . |
8 | There was not much of this kind of nonsense as far as I could tell by eavesdropping around the room , but there were cries of anguish when the prices of some of the wines were announced . |
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 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
11 | However , drying the whiskers out did not seem to have an important effect upon their strength , as far as I could tell . |
12 | The sparrow was n't too badly injured as far as I could tell , but it was obviously in a state of shock and could n't fly . |
13 | As far as I could tell Frank had recovered from the breakdown we witnessed in late 1986 and , despite the months alone and the awful beatings he 'd received in the Pigsty , he still had a great sense of humour and told us hysterical episodes from his life , many of them against himself . |
14 | As far as I could tell she 'd drunk a litre and a half , allowing for spillage , so her behaviour was understandable . |
15 | The children of Egypt played in the dust-laden sunlight , and as far as I could tell they were happy . |
16 | It was very good — they all were , as far as I could tell . |
17 | As far as I could tell , the roof seemed to be consuming money faster than we could give it . |
18 | In all the years I had been watching him , he had , as far as I could tell , absolutely fuck-all interest in them . |
19 | He seemed , as far as I could tell , to be fast asleep . |
20 | Fairclough played a Batty-esque defensive midfield role as far as I could tell , marking Shearer might have been a better idea , though he did an OK job as it was . |
21 | The experience as far as I could gather never disappoints : because of its own unique qualities , but also because of the attention we all pay it . |
22 | As far as I could gather from the producer , my job would be to record this deterioration and then , without sounding too pious or moralistic , point out its implications for people who drink at work or when they 're driving . |
23 | As far as I could gather , Nour 's father had taken on responsibility for all his sisters , married or not , and for their offspring , and since his death Marie Claire had assumed the burden . |
24 | 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 ) . |
25 | " As far as I could gather , what he was saying was some nonsense about the Easter Fete . |
26 | The guns were all along the river bank as far as I could see . |
27 | ‘ Only that the place was never kept decently as far as I could see , not the way a gentleman 's house should be . |
28 | Nor was there any instance , as far as I could see , of the faithful lover dying before his long wait was rewarded ; or thought of how the heroine might have felt in such a case , with brothers and sisters flown the nest , father and mother dead , hero dead , the house empty , and the mind , so long attuned and subjected to the needs of other minds , no longer able to recognize and adapt to its own needs . |
29 | As far as I could see , a holy well pointed out to me by my 1973 taxi driver had also been concreted . |
30 | Olomouc is full of churches , huge and chillingly ornate , freezing inside and as far as I could see deserted during the week . |