Example sentences of "[prep] them 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 | I began several diaries , carrying on the entries in some of them as far as February . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | And this was one of them as far as the demon was concerned ) . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | There were a few cars parked , but none with anyone in them as far as I could see . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | I put my tongue out at them as far as it would go . |