Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [noun prp] could " in BNC.

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1 She was next in line to Lily , five years older than the girl who had come to Riverstown and had the whole world in her pocket , so far as Bernadette could see .
2 It looked like some sort of play he was writing , so far as Bob could see .
3 But the baby , so far as Wendy could see , was in good order , firm of limb , bright of eye , smooth of skin and , once released from its wrapping , extremely lively .
4 Well laid out , so far as Newman could see while she made the tea .
5 ‘ The Mamur Zapt ? ’ said Suleiman , surprised but , so far as Owen could tell , not disconcerted .
6 So far as Bragg could see , the man had clearly been killed by a crushing blow to the head .
7 For as long as Ruth could remember , huge red roses had sprawled across the kitchen walls , fading gradually to a sandy brown against the yellowed background .
8 It had hung in Maggie 's bedroom for as long as Phoebe could remember : she had not looked at it properly for years .
9 Each month , for as long as Peter could remember , she had gone through the bank statement and done the accounts .
10 His hair had been white for as long as Burun could remember , but this was the first time his age had seemed to affect his behaviour .
11 Lizzie Stroud had been Great-Aunt Alicia 's maid for as long as Sara could remember .
12 Because , as far as Juliet could see , there were two ways in which Donna could have received her AB blood group .
13 The old man said they were love songs he had written when young , but they seemed to be by Robert Burns as far as Nigel could remember .
14 As far as Trent could see , there was no reason at all .
15 The girl had returned earlier , and prematurely , from the hunt , but was not around as far as Tallis could see .
16 As far as Jenna could see there was nothing there .
17 Still , as far as Pete could tell , asleep .
18 As far as Lorton could tell , Dougal had n't done a bunk .
19 The psychiatrist was called Mr Rose and was , as far as Marcus could remember from time to time , medium in height , medium brown in colouring and with a medium tenor voice when he spoke , which was infrequently .
20 There were a few guards scattered to the side of the road , all armed , no more than six or seven as far as Adam could make out .
21 Mahmud , as far as Robert could make out , was offering the fat boy a ten-pound note for them .
22 There were , as far as Robert could tell , no other members of the British Mission for Islamic Purity , the organization the doctor claimed to represent .
23 Some of them , as far as Robert could tell , were completely unaware that Dr Ahmed Ali had officially decreed they were no longer worthy to share the planet with him .
24 It meant , as far as Robert could tell , a kind of consensus .
25 And as far as Greg could judge there were a great many writers who had found a place in the book who were quite as obscure or more so — poets whose flame had died with the end of the war , one-off playwrights whose experimental verse dramas had caused no more than a ripple of interest even in their own time .
26 The police were all , as far as Henry could see , totally incompetent .
27 Young had , as far as Henry could remember , been sent to Broadmoor .
28 As far as Henry could remember they gave advice over the phone .
29 Young had , as far as Henry could remember , suggested the antidote for one of his victims himself .
30 Donald seemed to be describing the bad old days before Mrs Thatcher , as far as Henry could see .
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