Example sentences of "far as [pron] could see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great train was standing there , faintly hissing , silver , immensely heavy , stretching away in both directions for as far as one could see in the gloom . |
| 2 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 3 | Because as far as we could see , |
| 4 | As far as we could see , ship after ship was anchored all down the outer loch , and as we progressed towards Ullapool we could see that the anchored ships extended right into the bay past Ullapool piers . |
| 5 | As far as they could see , the walls were plain white , with evenly spaced-out black doors . |
| 6 | They set out up the hillside , going slowly , picking their way from one bush and tussock to another and pausing continually to sniff and stare along the great expanse of grass , which stretched on either side as far as they could see . |
| 7 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 8 | Then came the snow and she had to stay in and watch from the window how it piled up against the water butt , how it lay like a blanket along the sills , how it changed the distance from bluey brown to white as far as you could see . |
| 9 | As far as you could see there was a great undulating cushion of varied greenery , mile upon mile of leaves . |
| 10 | The land folded in on itself as far as you could see — green and brown hillsides sinking down in repetition , marked by the dark masses of trees and hedges . |
| 11 | The guns were all along the river bank as far as I could see . |
| 12 | ‘ Only that the place was never kept decently as far as I could see , not the way a gentleman 's house should be . |
| 13 | The Canadian has an operating crew of five ( excluding the dozen or so service staff ) and no one is entirely clear what they all do : fill out forms mostly , so far as I could see . |
| 14 | Nor was there any instance , as far as I could see , of the faithful lover dying before his long wait was rewarded ; or thought of how the heroine might have felt in such a case , with brothers and sisters flown the nest , father and mother dead , hero dead , the house empty , and the mind , so long attuned and subjected to the needs of other minds , no longer able to recognize and adapt to its own needs . |
| 15 | As far as I could see , a holy well pointed out to me by my 1973 taxi driver had also been concreted . |
| 16 | Olomouc is full of churches , huge and chillingly ornate , freezing inside and as far as I could see deserted during the week . |
| 17 | Well , I was n't married or likely to be , as far as I could see . |
| 18 | Sheridan , as far as I could see , was absent . |
| 19 | It looked , as far as I could see , like a bristleworm , until I caught a glimpse of its head , which seemed to have antennae of some kind . |
| 20 | As far as I could see , there were some eight or nine cottages strung out on a narrow road which circled the bay . |
| 21 | Nor , as far as I could see , did the road continue beyond the end of the village . |
| 22 | At present , courses are run in bricklaying , painting and decorating , welding , and sheet metal fabrication , and as far as I could see the standard of work was generally very high indeed . |
| 23 | Some built sturdily of wood and iron , others no more than skins of plastic sheeting over frames of branches , they straggled north over the dunes as far as I could see . |
| 24 | As far as I could see , the blow fell on his cheek . |
| 25 | By Brig Scott 's account , " as far as I could see , during the next twenty four hours , all the arrangements in connection with the surrender and evacuation were carried out by the Yugoslavs speedily and efficiently " . |
| 26 | ‘ In pretty good condition , as far as I could see . |
| 27 | What I had to look forward to at best , so far as I could see , was marriage with a worthy young man such as Paolo , with whom I already felt myself to be in love , then children and a life of boring respectability in the Pianura Padana . |
| 28 | For as far as I could see , the surface was bare , grey dirt — rocky , bumpy , ridged , pitted . |
| 29 | ’ As far as I could see , his ship was closed up tight . ’ |
| 30 | As far as I could see , every one of those off-worlders was an owner ( or the employee of one ) , there to claim or deposit some personal valuables . |