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 . |