Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] as far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Personally , I would n't trust you as far as I could proverbially throw you ! |
| 2 | As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru . |
| 3 | While in Donna di Porto Pim , the writer , having sailed for many days and nights , has understood that ‘ the West has no end but continues to move as we move , and that we can follow it as far as we like and never reach it ’ ( Tabucchi 1983 : 13 ; the notion is echoed in the title of Tabucchi 's later novel , Il filo dell'orizzonte ( The horizon 's edge , ( 1986 ) , the Indian journey proceeds , not always straightforwardly , towards an end of a sort . |
| 4 | ‘ I have no future but my children and my wife will take it as far as it goes . |
| 5 | People are talking about millions for the other two but clubs can forget it as far as Newcastle are concerned . ’ |
| 6 | Her curiosity had been whetted rather than slaked , because Zambia could only tell it as far as SHe understood , and hirs was not a scientific mind by any standard . |
| 7 | He would thrust and persuade it as far as he could towards an ending . |
| 8 | Perhaps you 'll accompany me as far as the Rope Walk ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ If someone came and pinched my bum on the escalator I 'd k-i-c-k him as far as I could down the escalator , ’ Topaz responded with gusto . |
| 10 | He could hit it as far as a 3-wood — and it won him the 1973 Open . |
| 11 | Significant quotes from players were passed on to the writers who heard , for example , that the Europeans had a " quiet " lunch after the opening foursomes , that Tony Jacklin did n't sleep too well one night , that Strange and Kite do n't hit it as far as some , that the Americans were " stunned " after the first day and that , mostly , players thought the crowds behaved reasonably well . |