Example sentences of "so far as i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self-cleaning oven so far as I knew . |
| 2 | ‘ So far as I knew I had attended to every trifling detail , yet every plan , every hope , seemed to be going wrong . |
| 3 | So far as I knew there was no Indian name for Moose Jaw , but I had a brain-wave that might help . |
| 4 | So far as I knew I covered the area around my bowels , liver , one kidney and all the other bits and pieces that make up a living abdomen . |
| 5 | So far as I remember , I had no conversation about me . |
| 6 | When she entered the room , she directed an unfriendly look at Harold — so far as I remember making no sound — and , seeing where I was sitting , directed a glance at me that , for anyone of lesser resolution , would undoubtedly have turned me into stone . |
| 7 | ‘ So far as I remember , she just said something like , |
| 8 | The dog is long since gone , though not , so far as I know , as a result of its encounter with the toad . |
| 9 | So far as I know , one cause of a general fall in the value of money is not open to dispute , either as theoretically possible or as practically instanced within our own experience : that is the monetisation of debt , in other words , the process whereby part of the expenditure of public authorities is financed by the creation of additional spending power . |
| 10 | So far as I know , no one has denied that inflation can be , and in fact often within our experience is , caused by the Government financing part of its expenditure by the creation of additional spending power which it then exerts . |
| 11 | I realise that no series chosen to test this proposition can be free from some criticism or objection ; but this fact is less serious when no such series has , so far as I know , been constructed which fulfils the condition of a uniquely unfavourable pattern for murder . |
| 12 | Both claims , so far as I know , are true . |
| 13 | It was of course simple mischance that this rat-tat should happen , even though the kiosk is not so far as I know a particularly busy one . |
| 14 | So far as I know there is no definition of what constitutes a Cabinet Committee and , as the practice has grown , I believe there may be among the 70-odd Committees in the book some with less title to be treated as Cabinet Committees than some of the 700-odd interdepartmental committees of which we have no detailed information at all . |
| 15 | Bernal was of course deeply committed to the Communist ideal and was never , so far as I know , privy to any of the atomic bomb developments during or after the war . |
| 16 | ‘ Not so far as I know . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Not so far as I know . |
| 18 | So far as I know , there is nothing anywhere which is like the sound Welsh people make when they talk about L loyd who lives at L landudno ! |
| 19 | Dealt with me himself , and never told anybody so far as I know . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ So far as I know , ’ Miss Honey went on , ‘ nobody else in the history of the world has been able to compel an object to move without touching it or blowing on it or using any outside help at all . ’ |
| 21 | But if by some extraordinary chance you should one day wander into a forest and catch a glimpse of a Minpin , then hold your breath and thank your lucky stars because up to now , so far as I know , no one excepting Little Billy has ever seen one . |
| 22 | So far as I know there is at present only one such scheme operating in London … and I would hope that it would form a pattern of similar schemes in other parts of London . |
| 23 | Obviously , the two do not wholly coincide , since the rite de passage is performed once only — no one , so far as I know , ever had to undergo an initiation ceremony twice ! |
| 24 | British and American community studies give the phenomenon of gossip some attention , but there is , so far as I know , no systematic study of gossip as a form of unarticulated female power . |
| 25 | When sexual activity results from obsession in a parent with offspring simply because they are offspring ( a rare situation so far as I know ) psychotherapy may rectify deviant desire . |
| 26 | There is , so far as I know , no solid evidence for any of these beliefs ; nor is there much to show that the family is , in fact , changing in its significance within society or in its psychological implications for child upbringing , albeit that pressures upon it are increasing just as they are upon individuals by reason of the increasing complication and tempo of life in Western society . |
| 27 | All this is trite law and the contrary has , so far as I know , never been argued in any case which has come before the courts under the Act of 1977 . |
| 28 | No one , so far as I know , has ever questioned such a suspension on the ground that it could not be done unless he is given notice of the charge and an opportunity of defending himself and so forth . |
| 29 | But so far as I know they have never been reprinted , and I have let slip from my memory now the name of the author ( a salutary warning against undue pride for those of us writing today ) . |
| 30 | The lady has , so far as I know , done no harm in the Lords — no one having seen her except on one occasion when she went there to lunch — and she has yet to make her maiden speech . |