Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] far as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this . |
| 2 | She could n't reach very far , but for as far as she could , the window was clean , bright . |
| 3 | For as far as she could see there were no secret , unsafe corners . |
| 4 | For as far as I could see , the surface was bare , grey dirt — rocky , bumpy , ridged , pitted . |
| 5 | Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get . |
| 6 | We went to the capital , Castries , for the afternoon 's festivities but arrived too late to see the round-the-town mile ( that 's about as far as it is ) . |
| 7 | Like a couple of chums , but that 's about as far as it goes . |
| 8 | Playing out of defence , however , was about as far as it went , though in the closing stages they produced the most sustained attacking football of the afternoon . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I watch videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 11 | I watch a lot of videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 12 | That 's about as far as I 've got . ’ |
| 13 | This is taking a sense of the particular about as far as you can go : man evolving as harmoniously with his landscape as the mayfly nymph evolved in harmony with its stream . |
| 14 | She took a step backwards , which was about as far as she could go in that hallway . |
| 15 | Lying under that police car just now , he knew he had gone down about as far as he could go , had expected to be caught , done for . |
| 16 | ‘ Trusts you about as far as he could spit , ’ Bicker finished . |
| 17 | But this was a drama , the story of the circumstances of Van Gogh 's life ; ‘ No attempt has been made , ’ wrote Meier-Graefe , ‘ to make a critical analysis of the pictures , which enter upon the scene only in so far as they concern the drama directly or indirectly . ’ |
| 18 | The republicanism of Irish socialist nationalists was of course logical in so far as they interpreted imperialism as an enemy of the indigenous population and as an expropriator of the people . |
| 19 | Leavisites , of course , claimed that they were committed to discussion , argument , the free play of mind ; in so far as they were , it was contained within the enclosing form of life , not directed against it , rather like arguments within Marxist-Leninist ideology . |
| 20 | Academics can still write evaluative criticism of course , and in so far as they do they are producing the kind of criticism practised by men of letters . |
| 21 | Except in so far as they publicized opinion poll findings , television projections of party credibility did not dictate public perceptions . |
| 22 | This style also reflects the attempt by the political élite in Moscow to hand down to the provinces general directives which were as sophisticated as possible and based on Marxist tenets in so far as they could be understood at lower levels . |
| 23 | They rarely study natural events , and only in so far as they impinge on the human world . |
| 24 | But the distinctions between ‘ high ’ and ‘ low ’ in so far as they are doctrinal do of necessity affect devotional practice . |
| 25 | Even the cults of Real Soul , Third World Music and Go Go are forms of regressive rock , in so far as they 're fantasies generated within rock press discourse , and represent a retreat from the studio and technology in search of roots and ‘ raw truth ’ . |
| 26 | The better opinion is that the pre-1926 priorities of the legal over the equitable estate , and of the earlier in time over the later , still apply , except in so far as they are abrogated by the provisions of the 1925 legislation . |
| 27 | The aims of these two movements , in so far as they touched on the rites of death , were sharply dissimilar : the Evangelicals aimed further to sanctify death as the gateway to immortality ; the Benthamites wished to demystify death in order to concentrate on the material means of increasing human happiness on earth . |
| 28 | Secondly , the Rules were flawed in so far as they did not seem to anticipate the possibility of problems created by the piecemeal acquisition of bonds either by occasional buying out or by gift . |
| 29 | In so far as they were looking forward , it was with a much more gradual pace of development in mind . |
| 30 | These letters are the letters of a wonderful poet and that truth shines steady through the very shining and alternating feelings with which I look at them in so far as they concern me , that is in so far as they are mine . |