Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] as far " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of teachers had been sent away from our area , too ; some off them as far away as Naples . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a family company and I could n't see any future for me as far as equity was concerned , ’ Goodwin says . |
| 3 | AB : Well it was always fairly straightforward for me as far as the repertoire goes . |
| 4 | I began several diaries , carrying on the entries in some of them as far as February . |
| 5 | Mr Pilkington was delighted and became such an enthusiast for air travel that he went on to make many more business trips by air , some of them as far afield as Australia . |
| 6 | And this was one of them as far as the demon was concerned ) . |
| 7 | All of them as far as paragraph B is concerned it deals with the reduction in local government responsibilities and the growth of non-elected bodies . |
| 8 | On the day he left , Gould wrote to Captain Washington at the Royal Geographical Society , announcing proudly , ‘ I shall have many novelties to add to science as well as to communicate a great deal respecting their habits since I have already obtained the nests and eggs of 60 species not one of which as far as I am aware have been described . ’ |
| 9 | Others , and particularly the teachers , may seem too busy with their classes for the head to ask them to share this part of the school work-load , there is a shortage of clerical support , the heads want to be seen as in charge of everything as far as possible , and so on . |
| 10 | ‘ He was n't hurt and that 's the end of it as far as he 's concerned . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He owns everything in front of us as far as the eye can see . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ My mother 's knitted for all of us as far back as I can remember , but she acknowledged defeat on this one . ’ |
| 13 | Provided Boy arranges a new posting for you as far away from Bumface as poss . ’ |
| 14 | With that she got up , put her knitting away and said she would go with me as far as our house . |
| 15 | The landlady was going out to see the workers among her hay some miles down the glen ; her man-servant ( the Hermit of Glencoe ) drove , and she asked if I would come with them as far as they went . |
| 16 | Jackie limped with her as far as the crossroads . |
| 17 | And , of course , I 'm in love with her as far as I 'm capable of loving anyone . |
| 18 | When it was time for Rosie to leave , Ruth walked with her as far as the corner of the street . |
| 19 | He left the cosy little restaurant to reappear a few minutes later with the announcement that her taxi was at the door and that he and Bob would go with her as far as her hotel . |
| 20 | All the same John insisted on coming with her as far as the ticket barrier , and stood holding her hand while she attempted to say good-bye . |
| 21 | He would be coming over by boat and a male nurse would come with him as far as Dún Laoghaire . |
| 22 | ‘ He does have Paula with him as far as we know , ’ Monica reminded him . |
| 23 | That night the Wordsworths walked back with him as far as the miner 's house , a short distance from the beech tree above Woodlands Farm where they often parted . |
| 24 | The Chief Inspector is , of course , responsible for everything AIB does — the buck stops with him as far as aircraft accident investigation in the UK is concerned . |
| 25 | Colour 's got nothing to do with it as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 26 | ‘ Not I. You might as well call it Trouble up at t'Mill and have done with it as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 27 | For this Scottish cruise the Board stayed with us as far as Tobermory on the Isle of Mull . |
| 28 | There were a few cars parked , but none with anyone in them as far as I could see . |
| 29 | The moors stretched before her as far as the eye could see , in fold after fold of snow-covered dunes . |
| 30 | It is odd , and neatly illustrative of the contradiction in Spartan attitudes , that Herodotus can say of the Spartan-led Greeks in the same period that Samos ‘ seemed to them as far away as the Rock of Gibraltar ’ , while telling elsewhere in his book of a Spartan , son of Archias , who was called Samios because of his father 's Samian links ( viii . |