Example sentences of "far as the [noun sg] could " in BNC.
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| 31 | As soon as she drew up to the roundabout at the top of Woodstock Road , she found herself in traffic which stretched as far as the eye could see , and when she switched on the car radio , she discovered that the only sound it would make was an assortment of squeaks and crackles . |
| 32 | Down below , as far as the eye could see , the hills and valleys were covered in trees . |
| 33 | On hearing this , the king gave orders for the fields around his castle to be planted with almond trees for as far as the eye could see . |
| 34 | As his eyes slowly became accustomed to the half-light , he began to make out row upon row of brown tents stretching as far as the eye could see . |
| 35 | As far as the eye could see was desert and the only break in the horizon was the pitiful silhouette of a few mud shelters . |