Example sentences of "[vb pp] as far [conj] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sparrow was n't too badly injured as far as I could tell , but it was obviously in a state of shock and could n't fly . |
| 2 | Women are faced with making a choice between the needs of their children and their own needs , and that is one of the things which , because they 've put the needs of their children , the needs of their dependents , ahead of their own needs , they themselves and the needs of women have not got as far as they could . |
| 3 | Got as far as you could only use five hundred and forty odd or something was it |
| 4 | He advanced on Nick who had retreated as far as he could . |
| 5 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |
| 6 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 7 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 8 | The British opinion , for what it was worth , was that by no stretch of the imagination was Bao Dai 's régime in de facto control ( they also warned the Americans that Schuman would claim that the French had gone as far as they could in Vietnam without creating trouble in French North Africa ) . |
| 9 | JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further . |
| 10 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 11 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 12 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
| 13 | Furthermore , some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhanced knowledge of processes . |