Example sentences of "far as [pron] could tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | We went in gingerly but as far as one could tell the floor was solid except for the one strip over the missing bit of beam . |
| 2 | It was just us , on a long stretch of sand , with the dark sea ahead of us — a landscape which might go on into infinity , as far as we could tell . |
| 3 | As far as we could tell the Moslem factions were out of the fray for the time being . |
| 4 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 5 | As far as they could tell , it was the only thing which existed here , wherever " here " was , Everything else was snow ; the white plain . |
| 6 | As far as they could tell , the writing , by a ballpoint , was Egan 's . |
| 7 | PP : As far as you could tell , were there any other factors which contributed to her death ? |
| 8 | These occasions , so far as I could tell , brought neither of us any pleasure . |
| 9 | The pancake , so far as I could tell , was a mixture of potato , cabbage , onion and seasonings . |
| 10 | As far as I could tell from a quick skim through , every meal was designed to act as an aphrodisiac . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | However , drying the whiskers out did not seem to have an important effect upon their strength , as far as I could tell . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As far as I could tell she 'd drunk a litre and a half , allowing for spillage , so her behaviour was understandable . |
| 18 | The children of Egypt played in the dust-laden sunlight , and as far as I could tell they were happy . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was very good — they all were , as far as I could tell . |
| 21 | As far as I could tell , the roof seemed to be consuming money faster than we could give it . |
| 22 | In all the years I had been watching him , he had , as far as I could tell , absolutely fuck-all interest in them . |
| 23 | He seemed , as far as I could tell , to be fast asleep . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's just phoned from the car to say that as far as he could tell Harry had nothing to do with it . |
| 26 | He became less scared and , even though the blows and parries were , as far as he could tell , ever changing , he became bored . |
| 27 | As far as he could tell no one was following him . |
| 28 | As far as he could tell they were not his constituents . |
| 29 | They were working through the buildings quickly and , as far as he could tell , efficiently . |
| 30 | They had come , so far as she could tell , west and north , perhaps far enough north to turn west , that was all . |