Example sentences of "[adv] far as she " in BNC.

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1 They had come , so far as she could tell , west and north , perhaps far enough north to turn west , that was all .
2 She was always mine in so far as she was anyone 's , and she 's never been anyone 's and never will be anyone 's , you know .
3 So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted .
4 She found Clelia 's company extraordinarily entertaining , and bracing only in so far as she liked to be braced : she could hardly follow a word , for instance , of the art references in her conversation , but Clelia managed somehow to combine a great air of erudition and abstruseness with a marked facility for making explanations , so that ignorance was no bar to amusement .
5 Of the four lecturers I interviewed , three could be broadly described as ‘ traditional ’ in their views , while one might be described as having a ‘ radical ’ viewpoint in so far as she challenged the conventional wisdom of English studies .
6 Molly remembered the note still stuck , so far as she knew , opposite ‘ The Flagellation ’ in the Piero della Francesca book .
7 Molly asked Louise when the men were talking , so far as she could hear , about the rat race .
8 Some fat old hag in a dirty apron came and said so far as she knew you were in hospital .
9 So far as she 'd been concerned they had been just friends .
10 So far as she was concerned , the friendship with Martin Ward was just that — a friendship .
11 The others , in so far as she could recover her feelings of the time , seemed to have involved love — inflammation of the senses , certainly .
12 ( Emma 's first appearance ) ‘ In so far as she was beautiful , this beauty lay in her eyes : although they were brown , they would appear black because of her lashes … ’
13 No one , so far as she could tell , hugged the doorways , folded into the shadows .
14 Well , he was certainly in a good mood , and no sign so far as she could see that he had been drinking what Matey called ‘ his nasty whisky ’ , so she prepared herself to play him .
15 But only the occasional innocent — so far as she could tell — twang of the springs of the hideous black and red sofa punctuated the interview .
16 Not entirely sure if she was being teased or not , because so far as she knew the Irish did indeed take leprechauns very seriously , she gave a weak smile .
17 So far as she knew they were only the result of an innocent friendship , so why Feargal 's anger ?
18 Robbie drew breath to vindicate herself , to tell him that she had not been unfaithful , that so far as she was concerned Hugh had ceased to exist .
19 In so far as she possibly can , she lets this great dull store of words speak for themselves , without addition to their number .
20 The sooner they took off , the better , so far as she was concerned .
21 So far as she could make out , Ven Gajdusek was more interested in enjoying his walk than he was in answering any of her questions .
22 He had been Away on a Course when she first joined , and when she met him it was — as far as she was concerned — hate at first sight .
23 I 'm an irrelevance as far as she 's concerned .
24 She turned her face as far as she could towards Marie .
25 As far as she could remember , she had never seen the man before , he was no friend of Faith 's .
26 Her curiosity had been whetted rather than slaked , because Zambia could only tell it as far as SHe understood , and hirs was not a scientific mind by any standard .
27 Money was poured out in an endless , and , as far as she was concerned , inexhaustible stream for her clothes and entertainment .
28 For one awful moment , she thought she had persuaded her , then , with a cry of triumph , Rose hurled the ring as far as she could into the surrounding darkness .
29 She would hardly have been able to get as far as she had already without a very strong image of the outlines of the world , of her own personal dream .
30 The staff told us she was the most difficult lady — as far as she was concerned nothing was right .
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