Example sentences of "[noun] reach [adv] far [subord] " in BNC.

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1 When they launched themselves into the dusk they seemed to fill the sky to the north for long minutes , and their cries reached as far as the village .
2 Western ports did play a part in shipping corn to London , in some years at least , the capital 's swallow reaching as far as Exeter and beyond to Cornwall .
3 Most of the other 10 queens are on European thrones , but the thin blue-blooded line reaches as far as Queen Aishwarya of Nepal , and Queen Mata-aho of Tonga .
4 The little manor-house at Cadhay stands near at hand in the Ottery meadows , and more distant views reach as far as the great hill-fort at Hembury , built on a commanding spur of land in the late Iron Age .
5 On particularly clear days ( the locals will tell you that midwinter provides the best of them ) the view reaches as far as the Vosges in France and Switzerland 's Jura .
6 The film capital is a huge sprawling city which seems to stretch indefinitely in all directions ; they even said that the outskirts of Los Angeles reached as far as San Francisco !
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