Example sentences of "[adv] far [conj] [noun] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Septimus Coffin could call on forty years of experience , and in so far as Latin could be made entertaining , he made it so . |
| 2 | She was next in line to Lily , five years older than the girl who had come to Riverstown and had the whole world in her pocket , so far as Bernadette could see . |
| 3 | It looked like some sort of play he was writing , so far as Bob could see . |
| 4 | But the baby , so far as Wendy could see , was in good order , firm of limb , bright of eye , smooth of skin and , once released from its wrapping , extremely lively . |
| 5 | Well laid out , so far as Newman could see while she made the tea . |
| 6 | ‘ The Mamur Zapt ? ’ said Suleiman , surprised but , so far as Owen could tell , not disconcerted . |
| 7 | So far as Bragg could see , the man had clearly been killed by a crushing blow to the head . |
| 8 | Because , as far as Juliet could see , there were two ways in which Donna could have received her AB blood group . |
| 9 | As far as Maxim could see nobody followed George through the fading damp light back to Albany , although there was no way to be sure and less way of knowing if he was followed himself not over such a short and crowded distance . |
| 10 | The old man said they were love songs he had written when young , but they seemed to be by Robert Burns as far as Nigel could remember . |
| 11 | As far as Trent could see , there was no reason at all . |
| 12 | The girl had returned earlier , and prematurely , from the hunt , but was not around as far as Tallis could see . |
| 13 | As far as Jenna could see there was nothing there . |
| 14 | And as far as Folly could remember , there had been no reason to mention the name of the hotel to anyone else — except , of course , the police constable who had taken down her details . |
| 15 | Still , as far as Pete could tell , asleep . |
| 16 | As far as Lorton could tell , Dougal had n't done a bunk . |
| 17 | The psychiatrist was called Mr Rose and was , as far as Marcus could remember from time to time , medium in height , medium brown in colouring and with a medium tenor voice when he spoke , which was infrequently . |
| 18 | There were a few guards scattered to the side of the road , all armed , no more than six or seven as far as Adam could make out . |
| 19 | Mahmud , as far as Robert could make out , was offering the fat boy a ten-pound note for them . |
| 20 | There were , as far as Robert could tell , no other members of the British Mission for Islamic Purity , the organization the doctor claimed to represent . |
| 21 | Some of them , as far as Robert could tell , were completely unaware that Dr Ahmed Ali had officially decreed they were no longer worthy to share the planet with him . |
| 22 | It meant , as far as Robert could tell , a kind of consensus . |
| 23 | And as far as Greg could judge there were a great many writers who had found a place in the book who were quite as obscure or more so — poets whose flame had died with the end of the war , one-off playwrights whose experimental verse dramas had caused no more than a ripple of interest even in their own time . |
| 24 | The police were all , as far as Henry could see , totally incompetent . |
| 25 | Young had , as far as Henry could remember , been sent to Broadmoor . |
| 26 | As far as Henry could remember they gave advice over the phone . |
| 27 | Young had , as far as Henry could remember , suggested the antidote for one of his victims himself . |
| 28 | Donald seemed to be describing the bad old days before Mrs Thatcher , as far as Henry could see . |
| 29 | He looked at Huy — as far as Huy could tell : it was more an impression of being looked at , and there was no reading the expression in the eyes — but spoke to Merymose without preamble . |
| 30 | He showed no desire to rediscover the metropolis ; and when not out visiting or walking did , as far as Ludens could see , nothing ; nothing , that is , except , presumably , think . |