Example sentences of "as i can [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ As far as I can tell their clubs are doing very well . |
| 2 | As far as I can tell there were cells in London , Edinburgh and Oxford as well as here in Dublin . ’ |
| 3 | When I insist on that priority , as I can tell you I most certainly will — with the full support of the Prime Minister in doing so — then I 'm sure my colleagues will see the point of that . |
| 4 | That 's near as I can tell you about it now , it has a special name I know , but er , that 's it . |
| 5 | Erm as near as I can tell you , I could be about er er fourteen . |
| 6 | Finally taking a look at the traffic on Nottingham 's roads as far as I can tell it 's all moving fairly steadily . |
| 7 | ‘ Just so long as I can do something — no matter what — I wo n't feel so helpless . ’ |
| 8 | As soon as I can do them in my own accent , I 'll be back ’ . |
| 9 | And he laughed himself as he ended , ‘ But he did n't add , ‘ and the best way you 'll learn it is to travel from one parish to another , and that 's what you 're going to do as soon as I can arrange it . ’ |
| 10 | But my mum 's pretty good you know what I mean she as long as I can arrange it round her she 'll arrange her arrangements around me sort of thing . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've got a bead on him , and as long as I can hold it I 'll have him when he moves . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm going to have a rest now , Fru Møller , and I 'll be down as near to six as I can make it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's my main home as much as I can make it so . |
| 14 | As near two thirty as I can make it . ’ |
| 15 | My work this year is very much on the ground — there will be only two abstract things — or three at the most — all the rest is objective — as objective as I can make it … |
| 16 | And that 's as good as I can make it , Kirsty . |
| 17 | I 'll be there as soon after five as I can make it . ’ |
| 18 | This is an interlude — as uncomplicated an interlude as I can make it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It means as much as I can make it mean . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ As soon as I can spare you , you are to go over there and make the place habitable . |
| 21 | I mean he does n't want for nothing , he gets as much as I can give him . |
| 22 | For twenty years his widowed mother had kept a small shop in a St Helens slum , only accepting an occasional small amount of money and putting off other help with ‘ the same naive reply : ‘ It 's very good of you , dear lad , and I appreciate it , but as long as I can manage it , I shall prefer to have my feet under my own fender . ’ |
| 23 | As far as I can read her argument , it is precisely this which allows recognition of it to model our human position as suspended between , as she says at another point , unconditioned actor … and conditioned agent . " |
| 24 | I 'm not bothered either way as long as I can read it . |
| 25 | Well they 've wanted a mid-field player and a good striker , now people well write letters to local press informing them of this , but they do n't seem to be prepared to do this , they , the managers want to do their own thing as far as I can see they think the people on the terraces do n't know anything , but Jim and I were saying last night they wanted a mid-field player for ages now all this season , a ball winner , they have n't had one since Willie used to play and |
| 26 | ‘ As far as I can see we can either go for Dersingham or for the man himself . |
| 27 | But as far as I can see we are more or less covered . |
| 28 | Er I , I know what , as long as I can see what you 've done . |
| 29 | Just so long as I can see you . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I treat you like a child because as far as I can see you are one . ’ |