Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking for two points not many can do at meetings as long as you pass it up there 's two points , two important points that we have n't talked about so far and there in the reasons why we do it they 're in there somewhere . |
| 2 | Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this . |
| 3 | And then fourthly , more and more the orthodox churches placed , played a very significant part in guiding the port of as far as as the assembly was concerned . |
| 4 | The wheels are of the best construction , having wooden felloes six inches deep , with strong iron centre pieces , and the inconvenience arising from sudden concussion has been guarded against so far as possible by the finest description of buffer springs . |
| 5 | That too is a long way off , but nothing like as far as the stars . ’ |
| 6 | The request that you have done me the honour to make , to receive the record of my voice , is one that I cheerfully comply with so far as lies in my power ; though I lament to say that the voice which I transmit to you is only the relic of an organ the employment of which has been overstrained . |
| 7 | What I found , though , was that what appeared to be a very good erm system from an ideal point of view was actually terribly hard to cope with so far as the teachers were concerned . |
| 8 | There even seems to have been some notion of carrying the plateway along as far as Husbands Bosworth . |
| 9 | For as far as the distant bluffs , the land is lost to prairie larks and prong-horned antelope . |
| 10 | She could see twigs scattered along the lane for as far as the car 's headlights reached . |
| 11 | Grazers have the enormous advantage that there is plenty of their favourite food available , all around them , stretching for as far as the eye can see and regrowing time and again regardless of how much they crop it . |
| 12 | The great train was standing there , faintly hissing , silver , immensely heavy , stretching away in both directions for as far as one could see in the gloom . |
| 13 | It was not uncommon for stolen animals to be transported along paths and roads for as far as fifty kilometres . |
| 14 | She could n't reach very far , but for as far as she could , the window was clean , bright . |
| 15 | For as far as I could see , the surface was bare , grey dirt — rocky , bumpy , ridged , pitted . |
| 16 | For as far as she could see there were no secret , unsafe corners . |
| 17 | And er , on that message , er , it seems , er good enough time to say that 's er , all we have time for as far as the phone calls are concerned on the Breakfast Call this morning . |
| 18 | On hearing this , the king gave orders for the fields around his castle to be planted with almond trees for as far as the eye could see . |
| 19 | I was promised I could see the project through as far as Gittel-plus-nine . ’ |
| 20 | In the men 's singles contest , managed to get through to the semi final while in the triples contest , and from Draught Stout joined from Brewing to win through as far as the semi finals . |
| 21 | But the , the link between sex and reproduction is always likely to be more critical to a woman So , so , so you see th th the point I 'm making is these insights seem to me to be to have a kind of relevance to er women 's experience of sex that is some ways greater than it is to male males can you know once they 've done their fertilizing work , they 're , they 're really through as far as erm as far as biology is concerned , not perhaps as far as social . |
| 22 | Big Black and Swans take this aesthetic about as far as is conceivable or desirable . |
| 23 | Raising the sums which will be required in the name of global environmental security during the next 50–60 years ( which is about as far as anyone can reasonably try to foresee ) will create severe political and economic stresses . |
| 24 | We went to the capital , Castries , for the afternoon 's festivities but arrived too late to see the round-the-town mile ( that 's about as far as it is ) . |
| 25 | This is taking a sense of the particular about as far as you can go : man evolving as harmoniously with his landscape as the mayfly nymph evolved in harmony with its stream . |
| 26 | Lying under that police car just now , he knew he had gone down about as far as he could go , had expected to be caught , done for . |
| 27 | He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application . |
| 28 | Slaughter 's description of this as ‘ whimsical ’ is about as far as her detached sense of scholarship allows her to go in appraising some of these eccentricities . |
| 29 | I watch videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 30 | I watch a lot of videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |