Example sentences of "far as [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | And our best interpretation as far as we could tell from that of course that was that the implied increase in sharing , because sh assumes that households with dwelling was about between four and five times the present sorry nineteen ninety one level share in the county . |
| 2 | ‘ It was as far as we could get , ’ explained Farag , ‘ because then the ghaffir came back . ’ |
| 3 | They stood arm-in-arm , back to the traffic , as though looking over the railway lines , and Alice , holding the spray low down , wrote , " We Are All … " which is as far as she could go without having to move . |
| 4 | She obeyed and he watched with still , dark eyes until she was as far as she could get from the trembling animal . |
| 5 | ‘ M-m … ’ was as far as she could stammer , for , in the next instant , Naylor was looking past her at his uncle . |
| 6 | She advanced to the desk she threw open the lid dramatically Mary-Lou drew in her breath and got away as far as she could looking at the inside of her desk with scared eyes |
| 7 | This was as far as I could get by water . |
| 8 | This , I suppose , was as far as I could allow myself to go . |
| 9 | And erm he he worked shifts , er the morning shift or the day shift as it was called , which was from erm , I do n't know as far as I could tell it was from six till two or something like that . |
| 10 | Part of it as far as I could see was in India that i India India 's actually got it 's quite a success story for development in a lot of ways . |
| 11 | That 's as far as I could er |
| 12 | I was leaving the Commissioners out as far as I could . |
| 13 | you know kind of there 's all this quips about sort of semen making your hair grow and all that kind of thing erm you know so erm it 's , it 's , it 's one of these things that erm sort of erm kind of people , people s slip into on the basis of you know th er as far as I could tell there was no sort of firm evidence that these blokes were gay or heterosexual apart from judgments made on their demeanour and personal appearance erm you know but er you know it gave rise to a whole range of , you know , kind of supposedly humorous talk erm in that context erm so there 's a whole range of things erm tt you know sort of talk and mannerisms and , and er , you know , kind of also gossip and suspicions about them , oh is he married if not does he have a girlfriend , if not ooh I wonder if he 's gay , you know , kind of things that we understand about people 's relationships feed into it so |
| 14 | My only regret on that particular occasion now is that I did n't organise properly getting it videotaped , because it would have been a nice thing to keep , but as far as I could I kept to the traditions of mayoral ceremonial on those sorts of occasions . |
| 15 | My only regret on that particular occasion now is that I did n't organise properly getting it videotaped , because it would have been a nice thing to keep , but as far as I could I kept to the traditions of mayoral ceremonial on those sorts of occasions . |
| 16 | er she bought these new leather shoes quite a while ago , but even they and they were the widest she could buy , but they needed stretching , so Joanne , Paul 's girlfriend , had got one of these shoe stretching things , you put it in and twist it and it goes up and up , well even that at it 's highest would n't , you know , at it 's furthest , well it was sticking out as far as it could go , even that was n't filling it , so she stuck a spud down the end of it |
| 17 | The bus industry as a whole was very conscious of the problem of pollution , and were trying to provide solutions as far as it could . |
| 18 | ‘ It was as far as you could go in Moyne . |
| 19 | But that was as far as you could go and often he became in a rather dubious position himself through doing that sort of thing . |
| 20 | Wicker , wickerwork basket the one had got a top on and er the big one which I had a hundred and forty loaves , I did n't have a top on but you had a waterproof sheet that you put over the top of that , but er the small ones had a lid on was hinged , hinged lid you could fold it backwards , as far as you could empty it and er what they used to do coming down Road you used to give it a good push and then jump on the back and freewheel down past what is now Lane er is that convenience still on , in those days the was a gents toilet , a public convenience where you went down steps , you were actually apart from the urinals there was toilets as well there . |
| 21 | I could do about six different costing forms , so it 's not like you could have a yellow wallet , because , presumably he 's saying we want a yellow wallet with enquiry form , a costing form , and that is as far as you could have it anyway . |
| 22 | North , South , East and West , as far as you could go . |
| 23 | Well , Charles immediately set up the kind of court that he 'd had in London as far as he could , with a very set routine . |