Example sentences of "[prep] as far [subord] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She could n't reach very far , but for as far as she could , the window was clean , bright . |
| 3 | For as far as she could see there were no secret , unsafe corners . |
| 4 | For as far as I could see , the surface was bare , grey dirt — rocky , bumpy , ridged , pitted . |
| 5 | He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application . |
| 6 | She took a step backwards , which was about as far as she could go in that hallway . |
| 7 | Lying under that police car just now , he knew he had gone down about as far as he could go , had expected to be caught , done for . |
| 8 | ‘ Trusts you about as far as he could spit , ’ Bicker finished . |
| 9 | In as far as anyone could hope to be in the bitterly envious soil of the SIS , Foley was unblemished . |