Example sentences of "so far [conj] i [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guv'nor told me to ride Ile de Bourbon in the big race telling me that I knew what he could do and that win was the biggest of my career so far but I 'll always remember Lester who had finished nearly last padding disconsolately into the weighing room and asking me ‘ Did you know your horse had improved so much ’ . |
| 2 | He tried to be nice about it , but it was fairly obvious he did n't want me any more ; and truthfully , I did n't want him any more either , except in so far that I could n't bear that it should all have been for nothing — worse than nothing . |
| 3 | ‘ So far as I can see it 's practically certain Mr Merrivale was in there with her early on in the night , ’ said Ethel . |
| 4 | I wonder if you are using ( in lectures ) a statement I remember you making in talk , but not so far as I can recall , in print . |
| 5 | In postwar Britain , the clothes , accents , and diction of the siblings may have changed , but , so far as I can judge , the suffocating insular coziness is just the same . |
| 6 | ‘ So far as I can see , he only thinks about snooker , his girlfriend and pop music . |
| 7 | I am opposed to judicial corporal punishment , always have been and , so far as I can see , always shall be . |
| 8 | ‘ The only way to change Ray MacSharry 's mind , so far as I can see , is before he makes it up . |
| 9 | Of course , helicopters can hover , while , so far as I can see , light planes can rarely drop to less than 90 miles per hour , so when there is a choice , it is best to shoot from helicopters . |
| 10 | So far as I can see , we 'd be doing him a favour . ’ |
| 11 | Techno of the most pathetic kind , with squealing , oh so excited vocals that will sound familiar to anyone who remembers Bow Wow Wow , not that it 's Ms Louise Wynne , so far as I can gather . |
| 12 | So far as I can see , there are about 16m private motorists ; 10m I would like to insure , and I think we might end up insuring 3m . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Mostly , so far as I can tell , they turn a blind eye . |
| 14 | ‘ Matilda , so far as I can gather at this early stage , is also a kind of mathematical genius . |
| 15 | The area had been given an unfair image by ‘ so far as I can make out a group of tearaways who are , at the moment , completely uncontrollable . |
| 16 | So far as I can see , even a partisan of naturalistic epistemology is not committed to finding general characterizations or explanations of justification or reliability . |
| 17 | " It 's all good , so far as I can see . |
| 18 | Well the only thing we have a problem on ‘ Sonnet ’ with , Luke , so far as I can see anyway , and I know Jeff agrees with me on this — right Jeff ? — and so does Jim incidentally , Luke , ’ said Joe , ‘ is the form . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ There is nothing in the section , so far as I can see , inconsistent with the view that the cause of action arises when the work is completed . |
| 20 | But , so far as I can judge of the matter , I should think that in the interests of the man himself — as a human being facing indefinite detention — it would be better for him to be told the reasons . |
| 21 | The justices have not set out in terms their findings under section 1 but they have considered all the aspects of the case in so far as I can see . |
| 22 | The identification is often questioned , but so far as I can see on no adequate grounds . |
| 23 | Not very enthusiastically , and not at all successfully either , so far as I can ascertain , we have begun doing a sexual thing with ourself . |
| 24 | Out of this confusion emerge two major problems that , so far as I can tell , are here to stay . |
| 25 | Actually so far as I can see it 's sod 's law for women , just as it always has been . |
| 26 | But there are one or two perfectly good teachers as well , so far as I can judge . ’ |
| 27 | It has n't grown Jed up , so far as I can see . |
| 28 | In so far as I can make out the policy of the Labour party , it is to give the business rate back to local authorities . |
| 29 | So far as I can discover , this appears to be some sort of first parliamentary double . |
| 30 | So far as I can see , unless there are fundamental changes in the British economy , the recession ai n't going to be over for a considerable time because the economy is in such a state . |