Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] far [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did he really need to go so far to learn so little ? |
| 2 | A total of seven people were reported so far to have been killed in similar circumstances . |
| 3 | The Egyptian foreign minister , Amr Moussa , made it clear he expected Israel to offer more than it has so far to return the deportees to their homes in the occupied territories . |
| 4 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
| 5 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 6 | Oh please , thought Grainne , please let it be that , for I have come so far to find it . |
| 7 | Pebbles had not come this far to capitulate now , and at the wire she was a long-looking neck to the good . |
| 8 | I hope that , given the work done so far to design and cost the scheme , you can have tenders to hand by then on the basis that construction would begin on site very soon after a decision at that meeting . |
| 9 | We were not gracious yesterday — especially as this child came so far to find us . |
| 10 | Title-holder John Parrott fired the fastest century break so far to lead Ireland 's Joe Swail , 6–2 . |
| 11 | It was inconvenient for a villager to walk that far to report a theft , especially since he often had to make the trip several times if he wanted to complete a prosecution . |
| 12 | Operation Desert Storm , by contrast , seems so far to have been supplied without a hitch — thanks to computers . |
| 13 | In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government . |
| 14 | Plenty of people in Donegal , Cavan and Monaghan would be delighted , as they would not have so far to go to buy drinks , groceries and cigarettes . |
| 15 | Well , it 'll perhaps improve when he does n't have so far to go wo n't it |
| 16 | Perhaps they reasoned that even if he managed to slip clear of the ropes he would have so far to fall it would n't matter . |
| 17 | But he was only young then , about thirty , and he did not have so far to fall . |
| 18 | The law appears so far to have almost entirely failed to rise to the challenge of the vertical separation literature . |
| 19 | It does not go so far to ensure proportionality as other variants , but would involve the least departure from the existing system , would retain single-member constituencies which many regard as being a valuable feature of the present system , and would be much the simplest to understand in operation . |
| 20 | This is proved by a letter from one Mr. Wildhagen to Sir William le Fleming and dated the 19 October 1721 : " hellip ; your honr know it is impossible for the men to work att your Fells of Conistone in the winter season for long as their houses are unbuilt , they haveing so far to come and go to thir lodgings … |
| 21 | Though you journey so far to see their ancient endeavours . |
| 22 | She 'd come this far to say her piece and say it she would , come hell or high water . |
| 23 | They wo n't have to travel so far to work . |
| 24 | But they have signally failed so far to build an intellectual constituency in wider circles of the kind that gave Thatcherism — which had little intellectual depth of its own — the basis on which to construct a new kind of politics . |
| 25 | Yet , despite numerous rows with the contractors , he has failed so far to tinker with the construction contract to any meaningful degree . |
| 26 | Meanwhile health campaigns have largely failed so far to change behaviour . |
| 27 | Over 400 food premises which have failed so far to register with Langbaurgh Council could face heavy fines unless they do so by April 3 . |
| 28 | But it seems a pity that he had to leave Education when the changes in the system still have so far to run . |