Example sentences of "[v-ing] as far as the eye " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Midlands it is the tree one sees most often : and for a brief spell in early sum-mer it is the most beautiful of all the Midland trees , with its continuous miles of white may blossom glimmering as far as the eye can see . |
| 2 | In a region of high rolling hills , the wall is like a gigantic roller-coaster extending as far as the eye can see to east and west ; Garvine wrote of the wall that it ‘ is built on such a scale that you would think it was the work of Gods rather than men ’ . |
| 3 | It is a superb sight with fields of dazzling Tulips , Narcissi and Hyacinths extending as far as the eye can see in a variegated patchwork of brilliant regimented blocks . |
| 4 | An excursion to the top of the high alpine road of Gross Glockner will leave you breathless at the fantastic views stretching as far as the eye can see in every direction . |
| 5 | As we watched the train 's shadows turn and fold on the snowy shore , it became clear that she had not forgotten the stories which made this much more than a stark inland sea stretching as far as the eye can follow . |
| 6 | I was sailing the Pacific , or a character in a surrealist painting ; often I was walking over the red shale past one football pitch after another , with goal-posts stretching as far as the eye could see , like white crosses over the fields of Arnhem . |
| 7 | The whole of the vale of Pickering lay spread out before the two riders , stretching as far as the eye could see . |
| 8 | 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 . |