Example sentences of "far as [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely a recording for posterity ( as opposed to a one-off ‘ live ’ experience ) , should not merely satisfy the performer 's ego ( my ‘ Eroica ’ , my Heldenleben ) , but also the composer 's intentions s far as they can be reliably gathered from the original score . |
| 2 | As she was only about fourteen , we always bought a few dark-red carnations from her , but that was as far as we would go , to her surprise and indignation . |
| 3 | And they 'll just , they 'll eit you know , just hand it over to the police and that 's as far as we 'll go . |
| 4 | We we 'll do the reporting and that 's that 's as far as we 'll go . |
| 5 | That will give us plenty to work on in the next decade , and that is probably as far as we should look for the time being . |
| 6 | Without a collar , that 's as far as we can go . ’ |
| 7 | As far as we can judge in five minutes , yes . |
| 8 | What is our work as far as we can prove it today . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's as far as we can go . |
| 10 | I think , colleagues that 's as far as we can go today . |
| 11 | Saturn , Saturn is as far as we can see . |
| 12 | Well as far as we can work out what actually happened is is the referee does give a free kick for this back pass there . |
| 13 | Now as a result of that , we always recognize there will be a loss to Shropshire County Council , because we 've benefited from the previous distribution , and as far as we can see in real terms we 've lost about a hundred and thirty thousand as a result of that move of a specific grant into distribution through your revenue support grant . |
| 14 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 15 | Erm we certainly will continue assessment training and er develop that as far as we can . |
| 16 | Not quickly as far as we can see . |
| 17 | There is a statement that asks and directs the County Council to take account of the need to r revitalize West Yorkshire and as far as we can see that has n't been done . |
| 18 | thank you , well you know the three categories , now what about erm , er , I 'm very anxious to proceed today as far as we can , what about Mr er remind me erm reading with two and three er I 'm afraid I 've forgotten exactly what you , oh I know you wanted to know Mr , er before cross examine Mr you want to know about all the additions of the various brochures , is that right ? |
| 19 | I think we 've already discussed over great length and I think we 've gone as far as we can go at this moment . |
| 20 | What we do n't know , of course , is how they organized their living accommodation , whether they ever got paid , they were given these sort of , £ tickets that were supposed to be honoured later on , but as far as we can make out , they hardly ever were , erm and how the people got on , we just have to use our imagination , but it is interesting that here for instance in these three , we actually apart from anything else have two women house-holders , who are obviously erm women who are carrying on business of some independence . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ It was as far as we could get , ’ explained Farag , ‘ because then the ghaffir came back . ’ |
| 23 | Yet since so much censorship is initiated by Council members ( in the case of public libraries ) , individual readers , pressure groups , and not by librarians and decisions are finally taken by library committees , there is room for substantial protest which falls short of outright rejection of the censorship ; and that is probably as far as one can ever go in preventing the censorship taking place . |
| 24 | That tentative conclusion probably is as far as one can go on the basis of empirical evidence . |
| 25 | What had changed was two things , one that the governor of the state had talked about defying the court rather than actually do it and secondly , that Eisenhower had summoned Forbus to see him at Camp David , the president 's summer retreat in Maryland , and had a weekend of talks with Forbus Now I was n't there , I was at primary school then , but I was n't there as far as one can piece it together what , what Eisenhower said to Forbus was , you know , I do n't really care what you do , but I do n't want it on prime time national television , I do n't want a scene , I do n't want you to flagrantly , openly , publicly to flout the order of the court . |
| 26 | It 's sort of grid iron pattern streets on the south side of the High Street ; on the north side that 's all disrupted by the castle and , as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the Rape of Lewes , was ceded to William De Warren , most of the local powers of the Town Council such as it was were taken away and subverted and the town became a minorial borough and although it sent Members of Parliament to Westminster from the end of the thirteenth century , it only had a very sort of ramshackle corporation , because the lords of the manor of Lewes kept control fairly tightly on what the town was actually allowed to do and on its internal freedoms . |
| 27 | On the north side , that 's all disrupted by the Castle , and as far as one can tell , when the town and the area around it , the of Lewes was ceded to William de Warren , most of the local powers of the town council , such as it was , were taken away and subverted , and the town became a manorial borough . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She obeyed and he watched with still , dark eyes until she was as far as she could get from the trembling animal . |
| 30 | ‘ M-m … ’ was as far as she could stammer , for , in the next instant , Naylor was looking past her at his uncle . |