Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as i could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody destroys me , and nobody was going to destroy Johnnie so long as I could sit by his bed — some of his family tried to stop me — and will my life force into him . ’ |
| 2 | M. Dupont , so far as I could observe , was not contributing to the discussions , and it was hard to tell from his sullen demeanour if he was attending carefully to what was being said or else deeply engrossed in other thoughts . |
| 3 | Instead of waiting to be salvaged , some of the inhabitants had got together in an effort to cheer things up , and , so far as I could gather from the film , they were busying themselves pasting pieces of brightly coloured plastic over broken windows . |
| 4 | These occasions , so far as I could tell , brought neither of us any pleasure . |
| 5 | The pancake , so far as I could tell , was a mixture of potato , cabbage , onion and seasonings . |
| 6 | In all my texts and documents , there were , so far as I could tell , no moments of pure , unfettered subjectivity ; indeed , the human subject itself began to seem remarkably unfree , the ideological product of the relations of power in a particular society . |
| 7 | ‘ So far as I could judge , it was the smoothest-running diesel of its type on the market at the time , and the quickest , ’ he says . |
| 8 | So far as I could judge , events , were now moving in my favour . |
| 9 | I was in a large ward full of ailing women , many of them , so far as I could judge , suffering from senile decay . |
| 10 | He was immensely well-read on political history in the nineteenth century and more recent times , and he deployed a memory of fantastic accuracy , but so far as I could judge he had read virtually nothing else . |
| 11 | The Canadian has an operating crew of five ( excluding the dozen or so service staff ) and no one is entirely clear what they all do : fill out forms mostly , so far as I could see . |
| 12 | What I had to look forward to at best , so far as I could see , was marriage with a worthy young man such as Paolo , with whom I already felt myself to be in love , then children and a life of boring respectability in the Pianura Padana . |
| 13 | Madam Deputy Speaker there is course another matter of er of er broader significance and that is that er whilst these orders er er er cover erm certain financial institutions , they do n't erm they do n't cover others , they do n't cover Lloyds of London in so far as I could see , erm I 'd half expected to see the honourable member for Gloucester West er in his place to pursue his campaign that apparently he er he he is not able to be here and indeed er others who sit on the benches opposite who lost a large sum of money in Lloyds , er but they might have had something to say about it as it does seem odd that Lloyds has not been covered , no doubt the minister would tell us that needs primary legislation and I I 'm quite sure this government would move heaven and earth not to introduce another Lloyds bill er because of er the problems that that would no doubt attract . |
| 14 | Mr Lewis , so far as I could ascertain , had already retired . |
| 15 | I 'd loved him for as long as I could remember . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I pay for the time , ’ the landlord defended himself , though not as intimidatingly as I could have hoped . |
| 17 | I had no means of knowing what sort of line I had kept on my cross-country stumble , but it had been NNE as near as I could make it . |
| 18 | The tide was certainly making now , and if I kept to midstream as near as I could judge it , I should be safe enough — if I put Joanna on the mud , the making tide would soon get her off . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But as far as I could make out the Ambassador was away . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I do n't trust anyone as far as I could throw them : it 's as simple as that . |
| 25 | As far as I could tell from a quick skim through , every meal was designed to act as an aphrodisiac . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | However , drying the whiskers out did not seem to have an important effect upon their strength , as far as I could tell . |
| 30 | 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 . |