Example sentences of "as i can [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 | Er Selby have as I und as I can see it today , failed to establish any need for the bid for two hundred two hundred and fifty hectares which they 've put forward . |
| 36 | I think it 's debatable how selfish people really are , particularly when they see that their are short-term selfishness may in fact create long-term problems for themselves , for their children , for their grandchildren , for er other generations and other peoples , and really as I can see it the green message is one of enlightened self-interest . |
| 37 | But he 's got no , as far as I can see he 's got no convincing argument that democracy will do better , but that does n't matter because he thinks that the decisive criticism of enlightened despotism is that it wo n't improve the moral or intellectual well-being of the citizens , but if people are excluded from political decision making , they will have no incentive to educate themselves or morally improve themselves , or he thinks if they do , if a despot does allow for the moral improvement of the citizens , then citizens will no longer accept despotism so that despotism is in a way self-defeating here and if it one of the proper functions of government it ca n't survive . |
| 38 | ‘ As far as I can see there is no evidence that when [ he ] has absconded he has come to any real harm . |
| 39 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 40 | ( 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 . ) |
| 41 | ‘ As far as I can see there 's only one reason why anyone gets promoted , ’ said Richards , ‘ and that 's survival . |
| 42 | Yeah but as far as I can see there either is a surplus or there is n't , you know , that it should n't depend on where you organize the a aggregate . |
| 43 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 44 | As far as I can understand she 's made only one friend ; but that would be enough if it 's a good 'un . |
| 45 | As far as I can recall it was further away from the wall , there was a space for somebody to walk between the wall and the bed , it 's not as shown in that photograph . |
| 46 | As far as I can recall there were no unfortunate incidents involving animals in Baldersdale . |
| 47 | For so long as I can recall I have always had kennels and an assortment of dogs to help me in my work . |
| 48 | As long as I can remember we 've been up here |
| 49 | Erm and I I as far as I can remember I think such things as underwear were unknown . |
| 50 | I think as far back as I can remember I was organising a group and telling people what to do . " |
| 51 | For as long as I can remember I have done and been interested in music . |
| 52 | Oh dear , the thing is , as , as far as I can remember I ca n't find it in any of the two books that I 've got out at the moment , it 's not under , but I vaguely remember that you have to dig down a certain . |
| 53 | I was n't too bad with them as far as I can remember I was fairly okay . |
| 54 | As far as I can remember it has always been a hot one , in that season beloved of medieval lyricists . |
| 55 | For as long as I can remember it has always been a tidy , clean , friendly place . |
| 56 | For as long as I can remember it 's been that way . ’ |
| 57 | Well he was as far as I can remember he was thirty eight he , he went he worked at the Gas Works , ca n't remember much about that really but er I think he 'd actually been working nights and came home and actually died in bed I believe . |
| 58 | Erm , they were not interviewed , they if they were accepted by a teacher training college they received erm a maximum of , of fifty pounds a year but erm as far as I can remember there was no loan erm element in that but I m I may be wrong because er but I never can remember erm writing to recover loans from the training college student . |
| 59 | So as I can take her for a ride and back . |
| 60 | 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 . |