Example sentences of "far as [pron] [modal v] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ As far as I can see you do n't do anything , you just sit up there . |
| 32 | ‘ So far as I can see it 's practically certain Mr Merrivale was in there with her early on in the night , ’ said Ethel . |
| 33 | True , the attraction of becoming ‘ British ’ is a big one , but as far as I can see it is the only one . |
| 34 | Actually so far as I can see it 's sod 's law for women , just as it always has been . |
| 35 | ‘ As far as I can see she simply ran and he ran after her , but there are other tracks there , I think the boy 's . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ As far as I can see there is no evidence that when [ he ] has absconded he has come to any real harm . |
| 37 | ‘ As far as I can see there is only one house that is easier to get at that way than by going through the town , and that is the house on stilts . ’ |
| 38 | ( As far as I can see there will be no further cheques drawn on the account or inpayments made between 9th March and 2nd April . ) |
| 39 | ‘ As far as I can see there 's only one reason why anyone gets promoted , ’ said Richards , ‘ and that 's survival . |
| 40 | As far as I can recall there were no unfortunate incidents involving animals in Baldersdale . |
| 41 | As far as I can understand she 's made only one friend ; but that would be enough if it 's a good 'un . |
| 42 | Speaking through an interpreter , Mr Usta said : ‘ As far as I can figure it out , one day before the operation the cheque was given by Dr Crockett , it was changed and the money given to me that night . ’ |
| 43 | So , as far as I can work it out , they found it was cool to go round to Wally 's and hang out , particularly as the school was only just round the corner from his place So they 'd sit there doing very little and getting bored . |
| 44 | ‘ The problem with casting myself as the male version of Calypso is that I doubt if Ulysses trusted her as far as he could throw her . ’ |
| 45 | As far as he could tell they were not his constituents . |
| 46 | He had questioned Ashenden in detail for several minutes about the crucial phone call with Kemp , and asked him to write down in dialogue-form the exchanges as far as he could recall them . |
| 47 | Far more interesting is whether the hon. Gentleman and his Back-Bench colleagues support Labour 's new nuclear defence policy — so far as anyone can understand it . |
| 48 | Non-performers were supposed to stay out , but as far as she could tell nobody paid the rule much heed . |
| 49 | As far as she could tell it had no relevance to her own predicament . |
| 50 | The others , in so far as she could recover her feelings of the time , seemed to have involved love — inflammation of the senses , certainly . |
| 51 | As far as she could see nothing had been taken but then she was not exactly sure of all their contents . |
| 52 | He expected her to trust him , but as far as she could see they were just empty words . |
| 53 | She had come a long way and as far as she could see it would take much longer even to reach the foothills . |
| 54 | For as far as she could see there were no secret , unsafe corners . |
| 55 | As far as she could see there was nothing at all but mountains and she had a nasty feeling that they would be isolated behind them for some considerable time to come . |
| 56 | As far as she could remember they 'd spent the time discussing potential ideas for his proposed advertising campaign . |