Example sentences of "[adv] far back as [pron] can " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a recent visit to Brooks Brothers , we tried to buy two identical shirts in a style that the store has stocked as far back as we can remember . |
| 2 | On a piece of paper draw a line or pictures , or allocate areas of the page , to mark significant events in your life as far back as you can recall . |
| 3 | This may well be a little rose-tinted , but that weighty , bulldog clip-around-the-nose sensation appears to have been with me and indeed to have shaped me — not only me , but my nose ; not only my nose , but my personality — for as far back as I can see . |
| 4 | There also the old folks , as far back as I can recollect , the meeting place of young and old on New Year 's Day to play shinty . |
| 5 | There also the old folks , as far back as I can recollect , the meeting place of young and old on New Year 's Day to play shinty . |
| 6 | ‘ My mother sang — and music was the most important thing in my life , from as far back as I can remember . |
| 7 | ‘ As far back as I can remember , ’ he confides , ‘ I always wanted to be a gangster . ’ |
| 8 | Now that applies to any matter arising , and subsequently I think that er the Donovan Report more or less reinforced er that particular er er procedure , although it had been written into our national agreement er as far back as I can remember . |
| 9 | I think as far back as I can remember I was organising a group and telling people what to do . " |
| 10 | ‘ As far back as I can remember , ’ he confides , ‘ I always wanted to be a gangster . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ My mother 's knitted for all of us as far back as I can remember , but she acknowledged defeat on this one . ’ |
| 12 | Gloucester has always been an important centre for the water-borne movement of goods , its quays dating back many centuries , and as far back as anyone can trace , the Severn has been used for both the import and export of a multitude of commodities . |