Example sentences of "[conj] far as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such men push the boundaries as far as they can to try to get their women to love them , dirt and all . |
| 2 | As far as we knew , the only block to Britain 's continued improvement in relations with Iran had been the Rushdie affair . |
| 3 | As far as I remember , the wearing of pyjamas is n't mentioned anywhere in the Ten Commandments , is it ? ’ |
| 4 | I was not conscious of this — it could have lasted twice as long as far as I was concerned . |
| 5 | As far as I am aware , no senior officer in the Navy considers it possible to maintain the nuclear deterrent without four submarines — and certainly no senior naval officer would support the suggestion of the Labour candidate for Barrow and Furness that the fourth submarine should be turned into a 17,000 tonne sub-sea supply vessel delivering oil instead of missiles . |
| 6 | It would n't be a fair fight either ; there 's no such thing as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 7 | Taking it as far as it can be taken , Hegel suggests that the conflict between myself and the person in whom my identity resides will become a struggle between life and death , because , he says , it is only by risking one 's life that one becomes fully aware of oneself as a free , autonomous individual . |
| 8 | Such an analysis is accurate as far as it goes , but when we consider the sense of the lines it is quite misleading.14 For " by number " is not a method of summoning the stars that is parallel to " by name " . |
| 9 | When one takes a longer-run view of the monopoly situation , one sees that it was won by competition , and that it represents , as such ( and as far as it goes ) a step forward in the entrepreneurial process of the market . |