Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then came the loudest crash so far . |
| 2 | Of course the fellow could shout , but the human voice is not loud enough to carry that far . |
| 3 | At the moment , however , as she stood outside the door she had intended trying before , one trembling hand hesitating over the latch , Isabel could only think as far ahead as the next few minutes . |
| 4 | Among the areas of technical interest is the evaluation of GIS software when used with zonal datasets , particularly since this form of information is far more common in the social sciences and ‘ the real world ’ than are the digital mapping and remote sensing datasets for which GIS is most highly developed so far . |
| 5 | The delight at the judgment which was ascribed to John Hegarty in the July issue of ACCOUNTANCY perhaps goes too far in suggesting that there is now mutual recognition of firms within the EC . |
| 6 | ‘ We both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 7 | Walter claims to have journeyed as a student to Nepal ( 'did n't everyone ? ' ) for purification , but Vivien reminds him that he only got as far as Ostend . |
| 8 | I failed to qualify : Ade Mafe just made it , but only got as far as the semi-final . |
| 9 | She ought to unpack , but she only got as far as getting out Ricky 's photograph in its blue silk frame and putting it beside the bed . |
| 10 | Nik Cohn , that indefatigable chronicler of popular culture , set out to walk Broadway in its entirety — but he only got as far as 42nd Street . |
| 11 | No , he only got this far . |
| 12 | ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful . |
| 13 | The full extension of the slide only goes as far down as C , but an ‘ E slide ’ gives the low B natural ; the B flat is taken as a ‘ pedal note ’ in the first position of the B flat instrument and the rest of the pedal notes are available down to E , the bottom open string of the string bass . |
| 14 | ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful . |
| 15 | But it only goes so far . |
| 16 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |
| 17 | Japanese money alone has so far created 4 1/2 thousand new jobs . |
| 18 | Have I made much sense so far ? |
| 19 | He 's also been careful to work er with the United Nations who have done er much better so far than they have in er some crises in the past . |
| 20 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 21 | The highest nobility were only very few in numbers , so that when we speak of their hold upon military commands we must , consciously or not , include those who had inherited relatively low noble rank or who had only risen that far through their own efforts . |
| 22 | ‘ I was only venturing as far as the bathroom , ’ she said with dignity . |
| 23 | Not in those days , not for a good Catholic girl like Mary Moxton , who would only lapse so far , and abortion was a lot further . |
| 24 | Surely a barber did n't hold his client in this way , was he perhaps going too far ? |
| 25 | ‘ You know , Dorothy , you and I have one thing in common , ’ I remember saying to myself in a Dutch accent , ‘ we both only got as far as Harwich . ’ |
| 26 | I left early before the nuns were awake but I only got as far as Glasgow before I lost my way . ’ |
| 27 | He set off with rucksack and typewriter on a round-the-world trip , but only got as far as New Orleans , where , ever the hopeless romantic , he fell in love with a girl he met on a park bench . |
| 28 | ‘ What 's an 81 anyway , Paul — I though we 'd only got as far as 7b ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ We 'd only got as far as having a preliminary psyche dissection on Daine , ’ said Trefusis , ‘ but the Yggdrasil probes suggest he had a similar-although far more pronounced — set of personality deformities . |
| 30 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |