Example sentences of "far as [pron] [verb] [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change . |
| 2 | In a level voice he said , ‘ You gave me to understand that as far as you know there was no woman at the time but your mother . |
| 3 | ‘ As far as I know 'e was 'avin' it orf wiv one o' the young gels where 'e worked . |
| 4 | As far as I know there was never any shortage of money — our fathers sent sums regularly back from England — and I , being the youngest , was the centre of attention . |
| 5 | As far as I know she was living on her own with this little old boy . |
| 6 | So far as I knew there was no Indian name for Moose Jaw , but I had a brain-wave that might help . |
| 7 | He just sat there jiggling his bloody spectacles and saying that as far as he knew it was n't . ’ |
| 8 | No , he had n't but as far as he knew there was no music on there still . |
| 9 | They had returned to the Operations Room , where Bernice was surprised to hear Ace 's voice — as far as anyone knew she was recovering with the rest of her party on Moloch — and even more surprised to hear it raised in anger and directed at — of all people — the Doctor . |
| 10 | Mala blinked , and grew paler , but quickly assured him that as far as she knew it was just a coincidence . |