Example sentences of "[adv] far as you could [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what was Mr attitude to spending on national advertising in so far as you could work it out ? |
| 2 | PP : As far as you could tell , were there any other factors which contributed to her death ? |
| 3 | As far as you could understand him , this was to the effect that since the Government was rejecting any suggestion that it was to blame for this scandal , since most of the alleged swindlers were difficult to bring to book , and since the investors who lost the money nearly all live in Tory marginals , then the one innocent party — the taxpayer — would foot the £150 million bill . |
| 4 | Then came the snow and she had to stay in and watch from the window how it piled up against the water butt , how it lay like a blanket along the sills , how it changed the distance from bluey brown to white as far as you could see . |
| 5 | As far as you could see there was a great undulating cushion of varied greenery , mile upon mile of leaves . |
| 6 | The land folded in on itself as far as you could see — green and brown hillsides sinking down in repetition , marked by the dark masses of trees and hedges . |