Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as i could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | As far as I could tell she 'd drunk a litre and a half , allowing for spillage , so her behaviour was understandable . |
| 33 | The children of Egypt played in the dust-laden sunlight , and as far as I could tell they were happy . |
| 34 | It was very good — they all were , as far as I could tell . |
| 35 | As far as I could tell , the roof seemed to be consuming money faster than we could give it . |
| 36 | In all the years I had been watching him , he had , as far as I could tell , absolutely fuck-all interest in them . |
| 37 | He seemed , as far as I could tell , to be fast asleep . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 ) . |
| 43 | " As far as I could gather , what he was saying was some nonsense about the Easter Fete . |
| 44 | The guns were all along the river bank as far as I could see . |
| 45 | ‘ Only that the place was never kept decently as far as I could see , not the way a gentleman 's house should be . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | As far as I could see , a holy well pointed out to me by my 1973 taxi driver had also been concreted . |
| 48 | Olomouc is full of churches , huge and chillingly ornate , freezing inside and as far as I could see deserted during the week . |
| 49 | Well , I was n't married or likely to be , as far as I could see . |
| 50 | Sheridan , as far as I could see , was absent . |
| 51 | It looked , as far as I could see , like a bristleworm , until I caught a glimpse of its head , which seemed to have antennae of some kind . |
| 52 | As far as I could see , there were some eight or nine cottages strung out on a narrow road which circled the bay . |
| 53 | Nor , as far as I could see , did the road continue beyond the end of the village . |
| 54 | At present , courses are run in bricklaying , painting and decorating , welding , and sheet metal fabrication , and as far as I could see the standard of work was generally very high indeed . |
| 55 | Some built sturdily of wood and iron , others no more than skins of plastic sheeting over frames of branches , they straggled north over the dunes as far as I could see . |
| 56 | As far as I could see , the blow fell on his cheek . |
| 57 | By Brig Scott 's account , " as far as I could see , during the next twenty four hours , all the arrangements in connection with the surrender and evacuation were carried out by the Yugoslavs speedily and efficiently " . |
| 58 | ‘ In pretty good condition , as far as I could see . |
| 59 | For as far as I could see , the surface was bare , grey dirt — rocky , bumpy , ridged , pitted . |
| 60 | ’ As far as I could see , his ship was closed up tight . ’ |