Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] far [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second and most detailed stage will be a series of three interview surveys : of solicitors , to establish the amount and kinds of work they do ; of general legal services , such as the Citizens ' Advice Bureaux , to establish how far they complement or duplicate the service provided by solicitors ; and of a sample of the population from selected parishes to find out the kinds of issues that have caused individuals to resort to legal advice . |
| 2 | To A. M. Fairbairn , one had to visit America ‘ to discover how far we have travelled out of the darkness towards the light ’ , while to R. F. Horton , it was a land with ‘ truth open to all who have eyes to see it and those who have not eyes held in wholesome restraint from meddling with those who have ’ . |
| 3 | After some three months have passed it is often wise to conduct a full review of the new systems and to discover how far they have progressed . |
| 4 | For example , it would be interesting to know how far they would be prepared to deliver service to frail old people who present particular problems , if they can make a living with easier clients . |
| 5 | It is a difficult question to know how far they merely duplicate the existing common law powers that arise from the obligation imposed upon the police to preserve the peace , which plainly permit the police to give instructions to limit the numbers at a gathering if that should be necessary to prevent an imminent breach of the peace . |
| 6 | It was clearly a spot height — in fact there was a small stone to mark it , but it was almost hidden in rough grass and gorse , and Maggie really did n't want to know how far they had climbed . |
| 7 | But say the figure had been erm fo he 's travelling at forty eight point three miles an hour , and you want to know how far he 's gone after twenty seven minutes or something , it 's a bit more awkward then so it 'd be easier to look it up on a graph . |
| 8 | Unfortunately , unlike its predecessor it has no score system ( I always like to know how far I 've got in a game ) , but I presume this is due to memory restrictions . |
| 9 | ‘ Who the hell cares how far you 've come . |
| 10 | I do n't know how far we 'd get but er it 's worth looking at . |
| 11 | Second , how do they know how far they can go ? |
| 12 | We recently wrote to them asking to let us know how far they have got and for details of their public consultation programme . |
| 13 | She did n't know how far they had come from Gloucester , but surely after an hour at a steady gallop they had put enough distance between themselves and the castle to halt for a few minutes . |
| 14 | ‘ We do n't know how far he has to go , but you can be sure others will be back for the horses . |
| 15 | certainly going much further than they did , do n't quite know how far you would go |
| 16 | A vision of the other woman 's mocking green eyes very nearly sent her running back to the safety of her own room , but having come this far she was determined to see this thing through , come what may . |
| 17 | We 're sure that having come this far you wo n't want to miss out on anything and we really do recommend you join us on these trips as it can be very expensive if you try to do it all on your own . |
| 18 | But since you have come this far you wait ( usually for some time ) until the supervisor emerges . |
| 19 | If you 've come this far you can be confident of reaching Day 28 . |
| 20 | kind of if you do , if you do manage to get some , some feedback on some of the stuff you 've done so far it may turn out that it was n't as bad as all that , you know |
| 21 | ‘ Since you came so far I can hardly say no . ’ |
| 22 | Given what has been said so far it will not appear surprising that the conference sponsors include the Western Isles Islands Council — it is to be held in Stornoway — as well as the SED and OECD . |
| 23 | From what has been said so far it is obvious that good interview schedules are important tools for the fieldworker . |
| 24 | From what I have said so far it may sound as if the Prague School did no more than restate the Russian Formalists ' theories in more systematic language . |
| 25 | I am not entirely clear in my own mind what that last sentence really means , but from what I have written so far you can readily see that the movement towards Euthanasia is to the fore . |
| 26 | On the evidence I 've seen so far I rather doubt that . ’ |
| 27 | Unlike previous Dizzy outings it retails at £9.99 , but from what we 've seen so far it 'll be worth it . |
| 28 | Then they turn against him and show how far he has been deluded . |
| 29 | But her value in his eyes was that she was his son 's future bride , through whom he would control Scotland ; he did not envisage her doing so herself as an individual monarch , and the secret agreements she made just before her marriage show how far she agreed with him . |
| 30 | ‘ There will definitely be an expansion of PRP , ’ says a spokesman , ‘ but it 's difficult to speculate how far it will spread . |