Example sentences of "[adv] far away [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , you should n't be so far away that you can not close quickly enough . |
| 2 | Neither stand so far away that it can not pick up your voice . |
| 3 | Stars are so far away that they appear to us to be just pinpoints of light . |
| 4 | I guess he figured the malais would be less alert in the torpor of the mid-afternoon , while darkness was still not so far away that it could n't cloak his escape . |
| 5 | There below you , so far away that it might be in Derbyshire , was a single toytown rooftop . |
| 6 | The opening of new offices may take place as part of a general expansion of the activities of a firm to additional locations ( though usually never so far away that they can not benefit from the goodwill attaching to headquarters ) or involve streamlining administration by establishing different departments in separate offices . |
| 7 | As she made coffee she stared dreamily ahead , smiled to herself for no apparent reason , and was so far away that at last Sophie remarked , ‘ You 're very happy — very preoccupied . |
| 8 | Above all , a pension seems so far away when you are in your twenties and thirties . |
| 9 | It looks as if the day may not be so far away when we can all do our shopping , banking and working from our homes . |
| 10 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 11 | Their mother and father were so far away and you could n't write that sort of thing in a letter . |
| 12 | The war was so far away and I suppose it was only in later years we learned how serious the threat was . |
| 13 | My attention had been so far away and the dog had timed his jump to a split second so that his bark came at the highest point , his teeth only inches from my face . |
| 14 | Llewelyn turned from the harness that was being checked out of the armoury , and looked at his foster-son for a moment from so far away and by so dazzling a light that he seemed hardly to know him . |
| 15 | From the various addresses given on the trade cards of coffin-makers it appears that many were sited off the high streets , yet not so far away as to be inaccessible to their clients . |
| 16 | Somehow , it made Italy seem less far away and her daughter 's behaviour there much less reprehensible . |
| 17 | If you know how to read the ocean , it is like looking at the stars : you can see what is happening not only far away but also long ago . |
| 18 | Notice a small , white , fluffy cloud not far away and become that cloud , gently moving across the sky . |
| 19 | He had a moped hidden in some bushes not far away and now he 's turned on to the track going up the mountain . |
| 20 | And it would have to be somewhere far away where her father could n't find them . |
| 21 | Somewhere far away and long ago . |
| 22 | End seems as far away as ever , he wrote , with the whole of the lower right panel still to sort out . |
| 23 | She sat in a corner on an antique settle as far away as possible from the blazing open fire . |
| 24 | Those who live nearby can take in items for repair , but the company will also accept commissions from overseas — even as far away as Australia . |
| 25 | Its influence is felt as far away as the London Underground , which is having its new , networked , interactive time-tabling system , Cart , programmed by a Delhi firm , CMC . |
| 26 | The nuclear industry 's current predicament is usually placed in the context of the near melt-down at Three Mile Island in 1979 and the fatal disaster at Chernobyl , the radioactive fall-out from which was still affecting places as far away as the uplands of Wales and Scotland four years later . |
| 27 | Eternity as the sound of endless babble : one could of course imagine worse things , but the idea of hearing women 's voices forever , continuously , without end , gave her sufficient incentive to cling seriously to life and to do everything in her power to keep death as far away as possible . |
| 28 | He kept himself diagonally across the room as far away as he could . |
| 29 | Armies from Sweden and Spain , France , the Netherlands and from as far away as Transylvania contended for superiority . |
| 30 | Sometimes messages come from as far away as Senegal and Pakistan . |