Example sentences of "as far as he [verb] " in BNC.

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1 That is , as far as he trusts any woman .
2 As far as he knew , the practice had now ceased .
3 But of course he did n't have anything to lose , as far as he knew .
4 Occasionally she would receive a postcard , coloured views usually of London with nondescript , meaningless messages , but as far as he knew she never replied .
5 Those were the facts , as far as he knew them up to this moment .
6 Mary was the only one of them , as far as he knew , who had ever walked to the village and walked about in the village when she got there .
7 The bodies were discovered at eight forty-five on the morning of Wednesday 18 September by Miss Emily Wharton , a 65-year-old spinster of the parish of St Matthew 's in Paddington , London , and Darren Wilkes , aged 10 , of no particular parish as far as he knew or cared .
8 As far as he knew , no one had slept in either bed since his mother 's parents died .
9 He did n't like lying to her but thought it inadvisable to tell her that there was no rescue ship hurrying to the scene and that , as far as he knew , the only other people who knew of the disaster were the NATO HQ in Italy .
10 It was all over months ago and , as far as he knew , with no hard feelings .
11 As far as he knew , she had received no training for this type of situation .
12 He just sat there jiggling his bloody spectacles and saying that as far as he knew it was n't . ’
13 and Graham was hardly ever directly involved — he had , for example , only ever met one of Slater 's ( supposedly many ) lovers , at least as far as he knew .
14 As far as he knew , the MP had not been interviewed about the case .
15 She had , as far as he knew , no reason to be curious , and therefore no reason to dissemble her curiosity .
16 But neither he nor Maisie , as far as he knew , had spoken of what had happened at Hasan 's Occultation .
17 No , he had n't but as far as he knew there was no music on there still .
18 Yet not only had she not said anything but as far as he 'd been able to ascertain she had n't left him any lunch .
19 The bill put forward by President Bush in May 1989 went as far as he thought wise in loading new burdens on to industry .
20 He never hit a bad shot off the tee ; it just did n't come back as far as he thought it would .
21 Adam himself had never shown any interest in Wyvis Hall , as far as he had noticed .
22 That the king yielded to the resulting complaints of the clergy as far as he did might be explained by his preoccupations in Paris when he could hardly afford serious embarrassment at home ; yet it seems more likely that he recognized the powerful tradition by which the matters in conflict were long deemed to have belonged rightfully to the church .
23 Gazzer leaned over as far as he dared and gave her a hand , holding on to her arm while she helped Simon to hoist himself up .
24 Jack crept up as far as he dared and then froze .
25 As far as he knows , Beryl may not even exist , except as an excuse for Brian Everthorpe 's delinquencies .
26 As far as he knows , only peppermints flash and only the hard , white kind .
27 It is , as far as he knows , the only way of coming downstairs , but sometimes he feels that there is really another way if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it . ’
28 It is , as far as he knows , the only way of coming downstairs , but sometimes he feels that there really is another way , if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it .
29 As far as he knows Women in Love has not been adapted for the stage before , but already it is causing much interest from other theatres and companies .
30 be no problems as far as he knows .
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