Example sentences of "[prep] as far [conj] [pron] [vb mod] " 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 | Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get . |
| 6 | Raising the sums which will be required in the name of global environmental security during the next 50–60 years ( which is about as far as anyone can reasonably try to foresee ) will create severe political and economic stresses . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This is taking a sense of the particular about as far as you can go : man evolving as harmoniously with his landscape as the mayfly nymph evolved in harmony with its stream . |
| 9 | She took a step backwards , which was about as far as she could go in that hallway . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Trusts you about as far as he could spit , ’ Bicker finished . |
| 12 | He looks guardedly back , from as far as he can lean away . |
| 13 | In as far as anyone could hope to be in the bitterly envious soil of the SIS , Foley was unblemished . |
| 14 | I just wish the Tories had some fresh ideas , precious few around as far as I can see . |