Example sentences of "[adv] far as i could gather " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 ) .
6 " As far as I could gather , what he was saying was some nonsense about the Easter Fete .
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