Example sentences of "[prep] as far [subord] [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 | He looks guardedly back , from as far as he can lean away . |
18 | The development of such trading centres is only relevant here in as far as they point to the direction in which economy was evolving in the sixth and seventh centuries . |
19 | In as far as they existed at all , relations with these countries were conducted as between tributaries of the Chinese empire . |
20 | In as far as they were less likely to be increasingly forced to resort to bribery to obtain scant food supplies at a time when the official ration was totally inadequate , farmers were better off than their urban counterparts . |
21 | The power of decision being committed by the statute exclusively to the housing authority , their exercise of the power can only be challenged before the courts on the strictly limited grounds ( i ) that their decision was vitiated by bias or procedural unfairness ; ( ii ) that they have reached a conclusion of fact which can be impugned on the principles set out in the speech of Lord Radcliffe in Edwards v. Bairstow [ 1956 ] A.C. 14 ; or ( iii ) that , in as far as they have exercised a discretion ( as they may require to do in considering questions of reasonableness under section 17(1) ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) ) , the exercise can be impugned on the principles set out in the judgment of Lord Greene M.R. in Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation [ 1948 ] 1 K.B . |
22 | ‘ You can wear whatever you want to as far as I 'm concerned . ’ |
23 | Yet not only had she not said anything but as far as he 'd been able to ascertain she had n't left him any lunch . |
24 | I just wish the Tories had some fresh ideas , precious few around as far as I can see . |