Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reading an article in a trade journal reminded me of how far behind we are in the use of fluids in this country , by embalmers whose end product never varies and , therefore , their cases look the same and last the same , and funnily enough the noses and around the mouths grey off — the eternal question again ! |
| 2 | The cave-dwellers of the Dordogne obtained shells from the Mediterranean and those of Mentone had apparently secured some of theirs from as far afield as the Indian Ocean . |
| 3 | That too is a long way off , but nothing like as far as the stars . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Trusts you about as far as he could spit , ’ Bicker finished . |
| 5 | If you if you say something like how far would you of got , if I had n't of called you back |
| 6 | The council says it 's tried everything but so far has been unable to grant the old lady her wish . |
| 7 | First of all my physical world constrains me in so far as every other car will be travelling on the left-hand side and my progress might be somewhat impeded if I chose otherwise ; secondly , it is a rule that is being followed by every driver . |
| 8 | The Sutherland and Ross-shire county boundary runs down the middle of the loch , touching the coast at the outlet of Kirkaig River , and Fionn collects in waters from hundreds of square miles , gathering them from as far away as Loch Borralan , at Atnacealgach , Urigill , Cama , the ‘ crooked loch ’ , and long , windswept Veyatie , below Cul Mor . |
| 9 | Madras , for example , imported them from as far away as Ceylon and Malaya . |
| 10 | These letters are the letters of a wonderful poet and that truth shines steady through the very shining and alternating feelings with which I look at them in so far as they concern me , that is in so far as they are mine . |
| 11 | Information on individual cases is referred to him in so far as it might help him to frame proposals for orders and changes in the law . |
| 12 | She heard him from very far away , crying out her name , which was , Caterina . |
| 13 | She dried her eyes presently because she realized that the Magistrate was watching her from not far away . |
| 14 | Salt-burning at Droitwich was confined to the six months Midsummer — Christmas — to keep up the price , Leland was told , though he himself thought the real motive was to conserve wood , since the exhaustion of supplies nearby obliged the salters to buy it from as far away as Worcester , Bromsgrove , Alvechurch and Alcester . |
| 15 | She was always mine in so far as she was anyone 's , and she 's never been anyone 's and never will be anyone 's , you know . |
| 16 | What about as far round as that high , nothing as far round here ? |
| 17 | Personal honour will affect us in so far as we can believe in the man or woman who defends or loses it . |
| 18 | Yet not only had she not said anything but as far as he 'd been able to ascertain she had n't left him any lunch . |