Example sentences of "[adv] as far [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ He 's never ever mentioned that night to me since , so as far as he 's aware , ’ he rapped cuttingly , ‘ I could think you were nothing more than an easy one-nighter for him ! ’ |
2 | Industrial Action and we 're only three days back in January before the Prelims , so as far as I can see that is St Agnes 's Eve out the window . |
3 | And that 's what you 're getting here so as far as I 'm concerned . |
4 | So as far as I know there are no plans . |
5 | Er , so as far as I 'm concerned and I 'm sure as far as you 're concerned , we are battling this together . |
6 | ‘ Only as far as they know she had n't seen a doctor . ’ |
7 | As he told the story , probably with some exaggeration , Evelyn is supposed quite often to have gone out , perhaps only as far as his aunt 's house nearby to borrow some sugar , and to have failed to return . |
8 | The sheet was pulled up only as far as his hip , so that backs of her fingers touched his bare back , warm and still slightly damp . |
9 | I like you very much , Shelley , but I will come only as far as you ask me to . ’ |
10 | She has always been rather possessive of him , except oddly enough as far as I 'm concerned . ’ |
11 | I wanted to kill Blyth there and then ; the hiding he got from his father , my dad 's brother James , was not enough as far as I was concerned , not for what he 'd done to Eric , my brother . |
12 | The individuals may function well in different compartments , and while they may have inhabited the same house for 30 years , believing they are together , they may , in fact , not be together as far as their hopes and expectations go , so it is terribly important that they voice these things to their partners . |
13 | They had lived with her for three months before they got this place , and it had been three months too long as far as he was concerned . |
14 | But basically as far as you are concerned you can get that sort of dividend yield , which is brilliant because i y as a tax-payer if you can te ten percent erm the , the fund is written as a unit trust and you 'd be paying seven you 'd be paid seven and a half percent on that one , so which one would you choose ? |
15 | On the contrary , I was mocked within the family for my ‘ posh ’ accent , and for what was considered to be my general childishness , especially as far as my sense of humour was concerned . |
16 | ‘ That 's what kept me awake last night — facing up to the fact that my behaviour , anyway as far as you were concerned , was as devious and manipulative as anything that William Ash could come up with . |
17 | ‘ Affect ? ’ he threw back at her — most infuriatingly as far as she was concerned because she was positive that he knew full well this time the context in which she used the word . |
18 | Ca n't be too soon as far as I 'm concerned . |
19 | Just as far as you want to go , then , and no further . ’ |
20 | The river — it stretched away as far as he could see in either direction , and could not therefore be a lake — was very wide . |
21 | ‘ Only that the place was never kept decently as far as I could see , not the way a gentleman 's house should be . |
22 | I badly needed more money , so the take-over could not come too quickly as far as I was concerned . |
23 | Great as far as it goes , but where are the mighty affirmations of life that soul once was ? |
24 | UNCED 's Secretary-General , Maurice Strong , has acknowledged that there will be " serious failures " at the summit , and added , in an oblique reference to the US , that " some countries are not going nearly as far as they could " . |
25 | She did not go on to explain that to remove anything would be wrong as far as she was concerned . |
26 | Jason had never done anything overtly wrong as far as she was concerned until his outburst today . |
27 | So that was all right as far as it went . |
28 | This was all right as far as it went . |
29 | Right as far as I 'm concerned we 've completed the first four points on the agenda right . |
30 | He 's dead as far as we 're concerned . |