Example sentences of "[verb] so far [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tiller was mad ; he never forgave me but Jennie just said , ‘ Perhaps Bella does n't want to go so far away . ’ |
| 2 | Well shipping Angus , so you know when the dredgers go on er er er creeping ahead , see we used to have er what we call the head wire there used to be a wire which was all stretched out say about half a mile and what you s and erm and all according what erm how much mud you were dredging for the depth of water and then my father would give the signal to say right , cos on the , on the head wire used to have a pull , we call the pulls and they were like er a jutted piece off the wheel and he 'd say five pulls ahead and we 'd say one two three four five right and we went ahead with it and then when we were dredging sidewards you see , used to sidewards , you never went ahead with it , not all the time you c you went sidewards across the river , and erm once you got ahead your side chains they moving up cos you got so far ahead th that the side chains were n't much good to you , so you had to then move your side chains so you got a little off the mud in an old boat and then re further up the river . |
| 3 | Certainly it is the only Egyptian village I know where the houses are placed so far apart . |
| 4 | Because philosophical argument and social theory have floated so far apart , the debate about reduction is liable to seem trivial — an arcane preoccupation which has no counterpart in studies of particular social phenomena . |
| 5 | There it 's got tunnels and it 's metal around the edge and it 's green three four three four three four to ring for a bash at Kids ' County and er we know it 's not the Major Oak cos that 's what they 've both guessed so far all right . |
| 6 | ‘ He lives so far away you see , ’ explained Bridget . |
| 7 | He could indeed hear breathing , though it was true of course that it might be his own , since everything about himself seemed to be happening so far away for the moment . |
| 8 | The ones described so far probably represent the major positions available to fans , but it is vital to note that simply having a strong relationship with an occupant of one of these role-position holders also afforded some degree of status . |
| 9 | Mr Honecker , 77 and still recovering from a gall-bladder operation , has so far flatly rejected all notions of change . |
| 10 | Indeed , with the exception of Atlanta 's Cable News Network , seen by a very small audience in Britain , even the introduction of new television technology has so far only extended the reach ( if not the profitability ) of Britain 's existing press barons . |
| 11 | It has so far only managed to produce a sample P5 running at 40MHz — just two thirds of the 66MHz speed Intel intended — and can not get the thing to work at a faster rate . |
| 12 | A feeling of mystery irradiates the scene at the house which he has so far only glimpsed from a distance : |
| 13 | O. enopla enopla has so far only been recorded from SE. of Cape Cod at a depth of 1152 m . |
| 14 | There is a deep feeling among those who practise fundamental science a feeling that has so far always proved reliable — that the way to true understanding is the one that satisfies the canons of economy and elegance ; the way which , in a word , is mathematically beautiful . |
| 15 | British Rail has so far totally failed to do so . |
| 16 | Although the concept is proven at club level , it has so far never found favour in international competition . |
| 17 | It is important to be clear then about our reasons for feeling that we had to explain why women have come so far rather than explaining why there had been so few gains . |
| 18 | It is this , the economic dimension of disablement , that the perspectives we have considered so far so conspicuously fail to address . |
| 19 | Adding up all of the costs of the items mentioned so far amazingly only amounted to £230.58 . |
| 20 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 21 | The present UK Conservative government seems eager to remove controls even in cases where many people consider them beneficial , for equally political reasons ; but it has done so far more quickly in some areas than others . |
| 22 | Because , with the death of her father just over a year ago , and with her only other living relative , her cousin Liz , living so far away in America , both she and Julie — who also had no close family of her own — were able to provide company for each other . |
| 23 | Prisoners are often transferred so far away from their homes that the social problems become immense and the difficulties are exacerbated rather than diminished . |
| 24 | Ex- Sounds writer Dave McCullouch : ‘ I think The Smiths have moved so far away from their original ideas . |
| 25 | The trouble today is that the student body has moved so far away from asserting its academic rights that it has become largely passive , simply accepting the fare put before it . |
| 26 | However , unlike with the front kick , the fact you have leaned back means that your centre of gravity is not thrust so far forwards , and you can at least land comparatively lightly . |
| 27 | All you 've said so far just confirms what I have long suspected — that you were so determined to get to the top , so determined to succeed that day , that you quite deliberately drove my brother off the track ! ’ |
| 28 | Erm well I 'll if you could , if you could do me a list of , of what you 've , what you 've missed so far so we know where we are as it were erm what er mm |
| 29 | There is inevitably a problem with continuity as well as some mildly annoying repetition , but such is the nature of collected studies written so far apart in time . |
| 30 | Airtours is keen to expand , but as Mr Coe points out , it has expanded so far mainly by organic growth and would like to continue it that way . |