Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] far [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in this particular county one has only got to look to Ryedale who s I so far as I know is the only authority to have carried out a comprehensive survey of local housing needs . |
| 2 | In addition , the new knowledge about economic and demographic change in the past has suggested that it is urgent to reconsider several aspects of the received wisdom about the industrial revolution , notably the assumptions made by contemporaries about declining marginal returns in agriculture ; changes in the occupational structure of the English labour force before and during the industrial revolution ; and , more generally , the viability of the concept itself so far as it connotes a unitary and progressive phenomenon . |
| 3 | ‘ The princes are no longer seen in the gardens , child — none as far as I know has had sight or sound of them for several weeks . |
| 4 | But none as far as I know is a homicidal maniac . |
| 5 | You can try to deny it if you like , but it wo n't get you very far when I play this tape back to the Press ! ’ |
| 6 | The design point is a good one so far as it goes … |
| 7 | all that 's been disclosed is one as far as I know , erm your Lordship can see that I at some stage need to have a look at them , er before I complete in any way so I can cross examine Mr er my Lord may I just say this , on the seventeenth of November , that 's two days ago , we asked for the documents of the necessary twelve M P's two days ago |
| 8 | The landlady was going out to see the workers among her hay some miles down the glen ; her man-servant ( the Hermit of Glencoe ) drove , and she asked if I would come with them as far as they went . |
| 9 | Dealt with me himself , and never told anybody so far as I know . ’ |
| 10 | I think the thing you have to say that as far as I 'm concerned , from what I 've see of her so far and I have n't worked with her in the field yet but far brighter spark in your department than that one we interviewed the other day |
| 11 | ‘ He does have Paula with him as far as we know , ’ Monica reminded him . |
| 12 | Ward said : ‘ He is causing a bit of a headache for us , but he 's been able to get away with it so far because he has been unknown , but it will be increasingly difficult for him if he keeps trying . ’ |
| 13 | I have said nothing to anyone so far because I have never been quite sure how much it might affect Mr. Andrew . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I have no future but my children and my wife will take it as far as it goes . |
| 17 | We have taken it this far because we wanted some justice . |
| 18 | Now if we do n't do that of course we er we 're going to change lots of patterns , we 're going to potentially increase er commuting out of the area into Leeds , that 's not something which we feel is consistent with er planning policy guidance in the realm erm , I do n't think there 's anything as far as I know in R P G two which er says that adjoining authorities around West Yorkshire should n't er seek to make provision reasonable provision for their own er residents ' needs . |