Example sentences of "[adv] far as he could see " in BNC.

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1 Otherwise , so far as he could see , the vessels were anonymous , identities concealed .
2 They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it .
3 He followed her through to the kitchen where , as far as he could see , she was still in operatic mode .
4 There were , as far as he could see , none .
5 As far as he could see the car was undamaged , except for the inside of the driver 's door , which was dented and tom .
6 Juron stared up the tube as far as he could see , and nodded .
7 As far as he could see back up the Basra road were the headless date palms , lopped by the shrapnel .
8 There was , as far as he could see , nothing that need be identified or admired or paused over : just bare grey rock sheering down to a narrow track which was used for the most part by packhorses and even then not often .
9 The river — it stretched away as far as he could see in either direction , and could not therefore be a lake — was very wide .
10 Not a trace of the search or the find remained — or not as far as he could see .
11 There was nothing to reach for , no aching energy of ambition to move him ; as far as he could see , he was just kicking around in medium comfort and waiting to get old and die .
12 As far as he could see , Viola Machin 's marriage had followed a familiar pattern : begun from sheer sexual passion , aggravated by loneliness and perhaps desertion , it had quickly gone sour ; it sounded as if Viola had suffered disillusion and frustration — the sexual side had not proved enough , and other aspirations , social ones perhaps , or aspirations of Walter making a mark in the literary world , had not been fulfilled .
13 From the concealment of the doorway , his feverish eyes examined the street as far as he could see .
14 As far as he could see , Maisie , who was now thoroughly disorientated , was headed for the pond in the centre of the Common .
15 There was , as far as he could see , no one else on the Common .
16 As far as he could see , not one angel perched on their peaks .
17 Nothing , as far as he could see .
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