Example sentences of "far as the [noun] could see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The artillery began to arrive the following day , large and small , but none , so far as the Scots could see , more powerful than their own . |
| 2 | There was nothing odd in the stuff , as far as the Inspector could see . |
| 3 | Outside the kitchen were brambles and thistles as far as the eye could see . |
| 4 | Loud music flooded the room ; on the screen people were dancing , as far as the eye could see . |
| 5 | There were green fields as far as the eye could see . |
| 6 | On either side as far as the eye could see , long lines of children , dwarfed by the adults stooped over the restless machinery , reached or crawled , snatched or darted , in and out of the network of rattling belts and hissing pipes , playing a constant game with death . |
| 7 | As far as the eye could see , the water was a dirty mud colour . |
| 8 | The plain stretched north and south as far as the eye could see and there was no sign of either vegetation or habitation — nothing but dust , rock and sand . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The land was not flat now but undulating , rising no more than a few feet in various shades of brown and gold as far as the eye could see . |
| 11 | My method was to look ahead as far as the eye could see , work out the route mentally , then , leaving the wheelbarrow , test the ground in small sections and mark the way with my feet . |
| 12 | Flat fields interspersed by dykes gleaming in the June sunshine spread as far as the eye could see and skylarks hovered and trilled overhead , but Nails , cautiously taking it all in , was given no time for comment . |
| 13 | I remembered arriving in Cross the previous day on the school bus noticing the universal teatime re-fuelling of hundreds of fires and stores ; fresh puffing chimneys as far as the eye could see . |
| 14 | As far as the eye could see the earth was brown : there were white pockets of unmelted snow , and sombre green pine thickets on the ridges , but no leaves on the deciduous trees and no bright green shoots in the withered remains of last year 's grass . |
| 15 | The moors stretched before her as far as the eye could see , in fold after fold of snow-covered dunes . |
| 16 | The whole of the vale of Pickering lay spread out before the two riders , stretching as far as the eye could see . |
| 17 | He began to retrace his tracks , drawing as he went , back over that country around Zweeloo that was entirely covered , as far as the eye could see , ‘ with young corn , the very , very tenderest green I know . ’ |
| 18 | They debouched from this second strait into a broad body of water which stretched as far as the eye could see toward the setting sun … |
| 19 | The show was all around , as far as the eye could see , any direction . |
| 20 | No other vehicle was in sight as far as the eye could see . |
| 21 | In front of him , as far as the eye could see , was the serenity of Lake Champlain , and all about him were the lush verdant forests of southern Vermont . |
| 22 | In the fierce noon-day sun the water stretched as far as the eye could see , in every shade of blue from palest turquoise to the deepest indigo of the horizon . |
| 23 | Cars , cars , cars , as far as the eye could see . |
| 24 | The tumbled surface of the sea looked blue-green , with white horses as far as the eye could see . |
| 25 | Beyond the placid waters of a small lake , a golden forest of trees stretched as far as the eye could see . |
| 26 | The grassy countryside was flat on either side , stretching away as far as the eye could see . |
| 27 | Knots of horsemen , as far as the eye could see , were moving along the banks of the Tay , firing the jetties that were not already broken , and two ferry boats crowded with men were in midstream on the Tay , hazed with smoke as they struck tinder into their torches . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Down below , as far as the eye could see , the hills and valleys were covered in trees . |
| 30 | 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 . |