Example sentences of "far as i [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application . |
| 2 | As far as I could discover , there is no suggestion that the residents in the defined area for our research see themselves as constituting a socially relevant or meaningful whole . |
| 3 | The owner , a bachelor in his fifties , slept on a camp-bed in the vestibule of the hostel and cooked on a two ring stove in the courtyard , mostly a kind of vegetable stew as far as I could make out . |
| 4 | Oh , roamed about all over Earth , as far as I could make out , travelled on foot across huge mountain ranges and vast great deserts where nothing lived . |
| 5 | But as far as I could make out the Ambassador was away . |
| 6 | The experience as far as I could gather never disappoints : because of its own unique qualities , but also because of the attention we all pay it . |
| 7 | Instead of waiting to be salvaged , some of the inhabitants had got together in an effort to cheer things up , and , so far as I could gather from the film , they were busying themselves pasting pieces of brightly coloured plastic over broken windows . |
| 8 | As far as I could gather from the producer , my job would be to record this deterioration and then , without sounding too pious or moralistic , point out its implications for people who drink at work or when they 're driving . |
| 9 | As far as I could gather , Nour 's father had taken on responsibility for all his sisters , married or not , and for their offspring , and since his death Marie Claire had assumed the burden . |
| 10 | My head was n't really in the right state for assimilating all this stuff , but as far as I could gather , Uncle Rory had been trying for years to come up with something Creative ( his capital , his italics ) . |
| 11 | " As far as I could gather , what he was saying was some nonsense about the Easter Fete . |
| 12 | M. Dupont , so far as I could observe , was not contributing to the discussions , and it was hard to tell from his sullen demeanour if he was attending carefully to what was being said or else deeply engrossed in other thoughts . |
| 13 | I do n't trust anyone as far as I could throw them : it 's as simple as that . |
| 14 | These occasions , so far as I could tell , brought neither of us any pleasure . |
| 15 | The pancake , so far as I could tell , was a mixture of potato , cabbage , onion and seasonings . |
| 16 | As far as I could tell from a quick skim through , every meal was designed to act as an aphrodisiac . |
| 17 | There was not much of this kind of nonsense as far as I could tell by eavesdropping around the room , but there were cries of anguish when the prices of some of the wines were announced . |
| 18 | Our Tory MP did jump off his LandRover to shake my hand and take one of my leaflets the other day , but as far as I could tell I was the only voter he met that morning . |
| 19 | I used to do a job which involved getting up at an unearthly hour while , as far as I could tell , the rest of the world slept . |
| 20 | However , drying the whiskers out did not seem to have an important effect upon their strength , as far as I could tell . |
| 21 | The sparrow was n't too badly injured as far as I could tell , but it was obviously in a state of shock and could n't fly . |
| 22 | As far as I could tell Frank had recovered from the breakdown we witnessed in late 1986 and , despite the months alone and the awful beatings he 'd received in the Pigsty , he still had a great sense of humour and told us hysterical episodes from his life , many of them against himself . |
| 23 | As far as I could tell she 'd drunk a litre and a half , allowing for spillage , so her behaviour was understandable . |
| 24 | The children of Egypt played in the dust-laden sunlight , and as far as I could tell they were happy . |
| 25 | In all my texts and documents , there were , so far as I could tell , no moments of pure , unfettered subjectivity ; indeed , the human subject itself began to seem remarkably unfree , the ideological product of the relations of power in a particular society . |
| 26 | It was very good — they all were , as far as I could tell . |
| 27 | As far as I could tell , the roof seemed to be consuming money faster than we could give it . |
| 28 | In all the years I had been watching him , he had , as far as I could tell , absolutely fuck-all interest in them . |
| 29 | He seemed , as far as I could tell , to be fast asleep . |
| 30 | Fairclough played a Batty-esque defensive midfield role as far as I could tell , marking Shearer might have been a better idea , though he did an OK job as it was . |