Example sentences of "as he [modal v] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | as , as , as he would see fit . |
| 2 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
| 3 | He followed her through to the kitchen where , as far as he could see , she was still in operatic mode . |
| 4 | There were , as far as he could see , none . |
| 5 | As far as he could see the car was undamaged , except for the inside of the driver 's door , which was dented and tom . |
| 6 | Juron stared up the tube as far as he could see , and nodded . |
| 7 | As far as he could see back up the Basra road were the headless date palms , lopped by the shrapnel . |
| 8 | Otherwise , so far as he could see , the vessels were anonymous , identities concealed . |
| 9 | He was certainly no coward , but he was likely to remain steady only as long as he could see his way clear and be sure of what to do . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The river — it stretched away as far as he could see in either direction , and could not therefore be a lake — was very wide . |
| 12 | Not a trace of the search or the find remained — or not as far as he could see . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | From the concealment of the doorway , his feverish eyes examined the street as far as he could see . |
| 16 | As far as he could see , Maisie , who was now thoroughly disorientated , was headed for the pond in the centre of the Common . |
| 17 | There was , as far as he could see , no one else on the Common . |
| 18 | As far as he could see , not one angel perched on their peaks . |
| 19 | Nothing , as far as he could see . |
| 20 | Faced , as far as he can see , with a future of minimum inflow and maximum outflow , he has decided to sell his gallery at 22 Cork Street as an art object . |
| 21 | We 're going to have to work hard to keep the swelling down , but as long as he can see out of both eyes tomorrow morning I shall be quite happy to pronounce him fit ! ’ |
| 22 | As he can see , I am the only Member of Parliament from the northern region who is here apart from , I think , one Labour Member of Parliament who is a Whip . |
| 23 | So I put it on the dim switch so as he can see to get in the bedroom . |
| 24 | Well the surface weather observer will take temperature , pressure , humidity , erm the wind speed and direction , he will study visibility , he will see whether it 's raining or there are showers in his vicinity , erm study the amount of cloud , the type of cloud above him as he can see it , erm all these details will feed in onto a routine hourly observation . |