Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [pron] could see " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 2 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 3 | Well , he was certainly in a good mood , and no sign so far as she could see that he had been drinking what Matey called ‘ his nasty whisky ’ , so she prepared herself to play him . |
| 4 | The Canadian has an operating crew of five ( excluding the dozen or so service staff ) and no one is entirely clear what they all do : fill out forms mostly , so far as I could see . |
| 5 | What I had to look forward to at best , so far as I could see , was marriage with a worthy young man such as Paolo , with whom I already felt myself to be in love , then children and a life of boring respectability in the Pianura Padana . |
| 6 | Madam Deputy Speaker there is course another matter of er of er broader significance and that is that er whilst these orders er er er cover erm certain financial institutions , they do n't erm they do n't cover others , they do n't cover Lloyds of London in so far as I could see , erm I 'd half expected to see the honourable member for Gloucester West er in his place to pursue his campaign that apparently he er he he is not able to be here and indeed er others who sit on the benches opposite who lost a large sum of money in Lloyds , er but they might have had something to say about it as it does seem odd that Lloyds has not been covered , no doubt the minister would tell us that needs primary legislation and I I 'm quite sure this government would move heaven and earth not to introduce another Lloyds bill er because of er the problems that that would no doubt attract . |
| 7 | Otherwise , so far as he could see , the vessels were anonymous , identities concealed . |
| 8 | This followed the line of the river , which ran straight from almost as far away as they could see , flowing smoothly without fords , gravel shallows or plank bridges . |
| 9 | Because as far as we could see , |
| 10 | As far as we could see , ship after ship was anchored all down the outer loch , and as we progressed towards Ullapool we could see that the anchored ships extended right into the bay past Ullapool piers . |
| 11 | As far as they could see , the walls were plain white , with evenly spaced-out black doors . |
| 12 | They set out up the hillside , going slowly , picking their way from one bush and tussock to another and pausing continually to sniff and stare along the great expanse of grass , which stretched on either side as far as they could see . |
| 13 | The great train was standing there , faintly hissing , silver , immensely heavy , stretching away in both directions for as far as one could see in the gloom . |
| 14 | Her birth , as far as she could see , had been accidental ; no careful well-intended deity could have selected for her her own home . |
| 15 | The baby was wearing a pink frilly garment on its top half , and nothing at all , as far as she could see , on its bottom half , but she could not see very well . |
| 16 | It extended as far as she could see in all directions . |
| 17 | The fence stretched as far as she could see and , above it , waved the brown tops of trees . |
| 18 | For as far as she could see there were no secret , unsafe corners . |
| 19 | He expected her to trust him , but as far as she could see they were just empty words . |
| 20 | As far as she could see there was nothing at all but mountains and she had a nasty feeling that they would be isolated behind them for some considerable time to come . |
| 21 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
| 22 | As far as she could see , the road was going into the sky ! |
| 23 | As far as she could see , the rest of the house seemed to be single-storeyed . |
| 24 | As far as she could see nothing had been taken but then she was not exactly sure of all their contents . |
| 25 | And , as far as she could see , he had n't changed one iota ! |
| 26 | Her eyes swept over the audience as far as she could see beyond the footlights . |
| 27 | The only bright spot on the horizon as far as she could see was that Barney must have turned the corner and be getting better . |
| 28 | The guns were all along the river bank as far as I could see . |
| 29 | ‘ Only that the place was never kept decently as far as I could see , not the way a gentleman 's house should be . |
| 30 | Nor was there any instance , as far as I could see , of the faithful lover dying before his long wait was rewarded ; or thought of how the heroine might have felt in such a case , with brothers and sisters flown the nest , father and mother dead , hero dead , the house empty , and the mind , so long attuned and subjected to the needs of other minds , no longer able to recognize and adapt to its own needs . |