Example sentences of "[noun pl] as far as [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 That the king yielded to the resulting complaints of the clergy as far as he did might be explained by his preoccupations in Paris when he could hardly afford serious embarrassment at home ; yet it seems more likely that he recognized the powerful tradition by which the matters in conflict were long deemed to have belonged rightfully to the church .
2 Our basic goal is to modify both methods as far as we can to reduce these limitations , and then combine both approaches to converge on the linguistic system we hope to describe .
3 He never had any long-term physical relationships as far as I know .
4 The trees over Three Island Pond bent to the left with its force , and Creggan saw from the shadows that such ducks as were visible were taking shelter on the lee of the islands , bunching together for warmth and sinking their necks and heads as far as they could into their breast feathers .
5 Then pull each leg away in opposite directions as far as it will go .
6 ‘ No , you can talk quite freely — there 's no phone tapping these days as far as we know ’
7 After all , evolution has been going on now for about four billion years as far as we know and there are n't very many long-lived organisms .
8 As far as the as far as A level as far as A level plays are concerned I think with had them on the stage before now over the last five ten years as far as I 'm concerned .
9 ‘ He has n't seen me or thought about me for ten years as far as I 'm aware and he could n't have known I 'd be in that house .
10 Erm people spitting er obscenities , obscene gestures , er we 've had two assaults er but they have been relatively minor assaults as far as we 're concerned .
11 This is fine so far as it goes , but even Marxist approaches have not always taken things as far as they should go .
12 Some built sturdily of wood and iron , others no more than skins of plastic sheeting over frames of branches , they straggled north over the dunes as far as I could see .
13 ANDF does not change the fundamental constructs of software , and data can move between applications on different machines as far as it would ordinarily be able to do .
14 Or was she overestimating his feelings as far as she was concerned ?
15 What about her own feelings as far as he was concerned ?
16 There 's no problems as far as he 's concerned .
17 be no problems as far as he knows .
18 The exchange rate is excellent and you 'll find a pound goes three times as far as it does in Britain ( a feast in a good restaurant can be less than £3 ) .
19 ‘ It seems likely that you were the last person to see Glynn alive , apart from his murderer , but at the moment I am more interested in what you can tell me about him — the sort of man he was — and about his friends and his enemies as far as you can .
20 He had questioned Ashenden in detail for several minutes about the crucial phone call with Kemp , and asked him to write down in dialogue-form the exchanges as far as he could recall them .
21 He explained that as vicar of a large parish he had many and constant duties to perform , but that his interest in the deaf was so great that he would find time to advance their interests as far as he could .
22 Well , they were professionals as far as I know , it was n't a matter there of professionals beating amateurs. erm As for the distinction between the amateur and the professional , no , I think , I think that we 've got stuck with this amateur business , partly because it 's related to the idea of the English gentleman , which is only slowly fading .
23 Tugging the cuffs down over his hands as far as they would go , he worked his cuffed wrists down his back and round his behind .
24 Her nipples are in her armpits , so she keeps her wings close to her sides as far as she can and lashes out with her feet and bites those that pester her .
25 I 'm not aware we 've got people living physically on agricultural land at the moment , they are fields as far as I know .
26 ‘ I 'll start with the facts as far as we know them at the moment . ’
27 ‘ Her husband 's a solicitor , ’ I said , which was n't strictly true but he was in the legal profession , and they 're all as thick as thieves as far as I 'm concerned .
28 I merely want to open all the doors as far as they will go at the moment . ’
29 ‘ She has n't got any extensions as far as I can see , ’ I said .
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