Example sentences of "[adv] far as i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self-cleaning oven so far as I knew . |
| 2 | ‘ So far as I knew I had attended to every trifling detail , yet every plan , every hope , seemed to be going wrong . |
| 3 | So far as I knew there was no Indian name for Moose Jaw , but I had a brain-wave that might help . |
| 4 | So far as I knew I covered the area around my bowels , liver , one kidney and all the other bits and pieces that make up a living abdomen . |
| 5 | In so far as I did understand it , I welcome his commitment of the Labour party to the Trident programme . |
| 6 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 7 | And when they hit me with the INSET thing it was the summer term , the first half of the summer term and I was beginning to fray at the edges , as far as I 'd just got things going , and it was just like something else on top of a lot of pressure already . |
| 8 | As far as I understood , I was n't taking part in a vendetta against the German race . ’ |
| 9 | I explained , falteringly , my motives — at least , as far as I understood them myself . |
| 10 | And , as far as I had been able to judge , the feeling was pretty mutual . |
| 11 | As far as I knew , he was the only American student in the Arts Faculty . |
| 12 | But as far as I knew , he had no other friends in Salamanca , though he had only to lift his little finger and both men and women would have come running at his bidding . |
| 13 | There was no home leave from overseas and , as far as I knew , few individuals or units of the Eighth Army had returned to Britain , for most had been sent to Sicily and thence to the toe and heel of Italy , or to Salerno , and by this time were fighting hard up the Italian peninsula on one or other side of the Appennines . |
| 14 | The ward had been full , the nurses worked off their feet , but their care for me — and as far as I knew for the others — had been magnificent . |
| 15 | I was weak , highly emotional , but as far as I knew , well . |
| 16 | He went off with a medium spring to his step and I saw him later with his arms round Donna 's shoulders , which was n't ( as far as I knew ) in his script . |
| 17 | He did n't smoke , did n't drink and , as far as I knew , had n't put his biology theory into practice since my Grandmother 's death in 1953 . |
| 18 | He looked at his watch and told me , yet as far as I knew he had never heard that language before . |
| 19 | Richard had never done anything like this , nor would he : even if he had been unfaithful to me — though as far as I knew , he never had — he would never humiliate me publicly . |
| 20 | I had n't , as far as I knew , done anything to harm him , and his words rankled . |
| 21 | As far as I knew he 'd always been on the level , and certainly there was no harm in his treating the Fraser girl after the shock she 'd presumably had . |
| 22 | As far as I knew he 's at present on the Charlotte T. — all our ships are called something T. , as you probably know — on a trip to Hamburg . " |
| 23 | The Carolans were subject to much exposure in the Press , and as far as I knew there had never been any newspaper gossip which even hinted at any sort of rift between them . |
| 24 | As far as I knew , she 'd either thrown away or burnt Dad 's possessions — ’ |
| 25 | Do n't you see , as far as I knew , I was the first man ever to be displaced in time , though no doubt the timeslips were now making a regular thing of it . |
| 26 | As far as I knew you were still in the study . ’ |
| 27 | though as far as I knew |
| 28 | As far as I knew . |
| 29 | As far as I remembered from our arrival , the boatyard lay down a lane with no houses nearby : I 'd have a fair run in my socks to find help . |
| 30 | She lowered her lashes , said bitterly , ‘ I — I 've never gone as far as I did last night with you ! ’ |