Example sentences of "[adv] far as i could " in BNC.
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| 1 | These occasions , so far as I could tell , brought neither of us any pleasure . |
| 2 | The Canadian has an operating crew of five ( excluding the dozen or so service staff ) and no one is entirely clear what they all do : fill out forms mostly , so far as I could see . |
| 3 | The pancake , so far as I could tell , was a mixture of potato , cabbage , onion and seasonings . |
| 4 | ‘ So far as I could judge , it was the smoothest-running diesel of its type on the market at the time , and the quickest , ’ he says . |
| 5 | M. Dupont , so far as I could observe , was not contributing to the discussions , and it was hard to tell from his sullen demeanour if he was attending carefully to what was being said or else deeply engrossed in other thoughts . |
| 6 | Mr Lewis , so far as I could ascertain , had already retired . |
| 7 | So far as I could judge , events , were now moving in my favour . |
| 8 | Instead of waiting to be salvaged , some of the inhabitants had got together in an effort to cheer things up , and , so far as I could gather from the film , they were busying themselves pasting pieces of brightly coloured plastic over broken windows . |
| 9 | I rather obviously avoided , so far as I could , offering even the most tentative diagnosis of the defect in the tripartite analysis which Gettier exposed . |
| 10 | I was in a large ward full of ailing women , many of them , so far as I could judge , suffering from senile decay . |
| 11 | I went after the money with money borrowed from legit sources so far as I could : you know , against property , against insurance policies . |
| 12 | He was immensely well-read on political history in the nineteenth century and more recent times , and he deployed a memory of fantastic accuracy , but so far as I could judge he had read virtually nothing else . |
| 13 | What I had to look forward to at best , so far as I could see , was marriage with a worthy young man such as Paolo , with whom I already felt myself to be in love , then children and a life of boring respectability in the Pianura Padana . |
| 14 | In all my texts and documents , there were , so far as I could tell , no moments of pure , unfettered subjectivity ; indeed , the human subject itself began to seem remarkably unfree , the ideological product of the relations of power in a particular society . |
| 15 | Madam Deputy Speaker there is course another matter of er of er broader significance and that is that er whilst these orders er er er cover erm certain financial institutions , they do n't erm they do n't cover others , they do n't cover Lloyds of London in so far as I could see , erm I 'd half expected to see the honourable member for Gloucester West er in his place to pursue his campaign that apparently he er he he is not able to be here and indeed er others who sit on the benches opposite who lost a large sum of money in Lloyds , er but they might have had something to say about it as it does seem odd that Lloyds has not been covered , no doubt the minister would tell us that needs primary legislation and I I 'm quite sure this government would move heaven and earth not to introduce another Lloyds bill er because of er the problems that that would no doubt attract . |
| 16 | The guns were all along the river bank as far as I could see . |
| 17 | ‘ Only that the place was never kept decently as far as I could see , not the way a gentleman 's house should be . |
| 18 | As far as I could ever determine , he really did do that — he actually sat down and wrote a song for them because he liked them and did n't want them to go away . |
| 19 | I sent Celia a bill for everything , as far as I could remember , Aunt Louise had cost in money . |
| 20 | Nor was there any instance , as far as I could see , of the faithful lover dying before his long wait was rewarded ; or thought of how the heroine might have felt in such a case , with brothers and sisters flown the nest , father and mother dead , hero dead , the house empty , and the mind , so long attuned and subjected to the needs of other minds , no longer able to recognize and adapt to its own needs . |
| 21 | As far as I could see , a holy well pointed out to me by my 1973 taxi driver had also been concreted . |
| 22 | The experience as far as I could gather never disappoints : because of its own unique qualities , but also because of the attention we all pay it . |
| 23 | The owner , a bachelor in his fifties , slept on a camp-bed in the vestibule of the hostel and cooked on a two ring stove in the courtyard , mostly a kind of vegetable stew as far as I could make out . |
| 24 | Olomouc is full of churches , huge and chillingly ornate , freezing inside and as far as I could see deserted during the week . |
| 25 | As far as I could tell from a quick skim through , every meal was designed to act as an aphrodisiac . |
| 26 | He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application . |
| 27 | So I relaxed as far as I could , and short of thumping my chest like Tarzan , hoped I was emanating nothing but lovely rude health . |
| 28 | Well , I was n't married or likely to be , as far as I could see . |
| 29 | There was not much of this kind of nonsense as far as I could tell by eavesdropping around the room , but there were cries of anguish when the prices of some of the wines were announced . |
| 30 | As far as I could discover , there is no suggestion that the residents in the defined area for our research see themselves as constituting a socially relevant or meaningful whole . |