Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] as far [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It er I I mean I as far as I 'm concerned it 's er extremely difficult to get people to er come to social events . |
| 2 | ‘ Personally , I would n't trust you as far as I could proverbially throw you ! |
| 3 | I do n't trust anyone as far as I could throw them : it 's as simple as that . |
| 4 | Government legislation has sharply reduced the scope for this , but a number of councils are still interested in developing it as far as they can . |
| 5 | So far from abandoning our folly , we started pushing it as far as it would go . |
| 6 | If time permits , we would be happy to accommodate you as far as we can . |
| 7 | Alfieri watched out for his clients and tried to help them as far as his job would allow . |
| 8 | While in Donna di Porto Pim , the writer , having sailed for many days and nights , has understood that ‘ the West has no end but continues to move as we move , and that we can follow it as far as we like and never reach it ’ ( Tabucchi 1983 : 13 ; the notion is echoed in the title of Tabucchi 's later novel , Il filo dell'orizzonte ( The horizon 's edge , ( 1986 ) , the Indian journey proceeds , not always straightforwardly , towards an end of a sort . |
| 9 | I 'm really sorry , but this has altered everything as far as our plans with you were concerned . |
| 10 | Lorton raised himself as far as he could . |
| 11 | ‘ I caught sight of him in the garden a moment ago — at least , I 'm pretty sure that brooding silhouette was his , looming in the shrubbery — and he was n't seducing anyone as far as I could see . ’ |
| 12 | He had told her the story , and reassured her as far as he was able . |
| 13 | ‘ I have no future but my children and my wife will take it as far as it goes . |
| 14 | He brought me as far as your gate , which was decent of him — and then bolted as if the bears were after him . |
| 15 | He dived away at the double and took himself as far as his long legs would carry him . |
| 16 | He made no attempt to detain her , but walked with her down the dark drive and took her as far as her own front door . |
| 17 | Her curiosity had been whetted rather than slaked , because Zambia could only tell it as far as SHe understood , and hirs was not a scientific mind by any standard . |
| 18 | It made a high arc , vanishing against the sun as she flung it as far as she could . |
| 19 | Yet even though Daniel had spread himself as far as he could , including making himself a primitive chapel out of an east-facing bedroom , there was still a good deal of vicarage left over . |
| 20 | Fortunately you have a chancre which has appeared soon , and this means that the system has an opportunity to right itself as far as it can , having got rid of some of the trouble . |
| 21 | He would thrust and persuade it as far as he could towards an ending . |
| 22 | A spokesman said : ‘ We have lost nothing as far as our computer records are concerned and there is no need for policy holders to be concerned . |
| 23 | But anything I do , I 'll have a bloody good go at it and take it as far as I can . |
| 24 | Do tell me all about it ! ’ she begged ; and Breeze enlightened her as far as she could , without referring to the business of the wallet . |
| 25 | ‘ If someone came and pinched my bum on the escalator I 'd k-i-c-k him as far as I could down the escalator , ’ Topaz responded with gusto . |
| 26 | ‘ The problem with casting myself as the male version of Calypso is that I doubt if Ulysses trusted her as far as he could throw her . ’ |
| 27 | It looked enticing and we decided to follow it as far as we could . |
| 28 | I want to look different , to please myself as far as I 'm able . ’ |