Example sentences of "so far [conj] she [modal v] " in BNC.

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1 They had come , so far as she could tell , west and north , perhaps far enough north to turn west , that was all .
2 So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted .
3 Molly asked Louise when the men were talking , so far as she could hear , about the rat race .
4 The others , in so far as she could recover her feelings of the time , seemed to have involved love — inflammation of the senses , certainly .
5 No one , so far as she could tell , hugged the doorways , folded into the shadows .
6 Well , he was certainly in a good mood , and no sign so far as she could see that he had been drinking what Matey called ‘ his nasty whisky ’ , so she prepared herself to play him .
7 But only the occasional innocent — so far as she could tell — twang of the springs of the hideous black and red sofa punctuated the interview .
8 So far as she could make out , Ven Gajdusek was more interested in enjoying his walk than he was in answering any of her questions .
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