Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] far [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Significantly their arrival coincided with the first wave of summer visitors in more southerly parts of Britain , including wheatears reported as far north as Staffordshire .
2 I came here to escape from the problems of my life in London and , without really meaning to , I came as far east as I could get . ’
3 One winter in the last century twelve great white bears got as far south as Iceland by this method ; imagine them riding town on their melting thrones to make a terrifying , godlike landfall .
4 The Secretary of State will be aware from his own sources of the vast array of weapons being assembled and stored as far south as Limerick for transport to Northern Ireland .
5 Yeah , so you 'd anticipate some coming in on the A fifty nine , if you went that far north ,
6 Support for the aged warrior extended as far north as Angouleme and seemed to present a serious threat to Frankish rule in Aquitaine .
7 The Lombards had soon occupied an area that extended as far south as Perugia , though not all the way east to the Adriatic coast .
8 The corridor of land administered by the League extended as far south as Cracow , Göttingen and Cologne .
9 Never mind you got as far as you could , so at least you got that far Deirdre .
10 Over-confident , the Italians occupied parts of Tigre and pushed as far south as Amba Alagi .
11 Both Dalgliesh and Massingham wondered how far Mrs. Bidwell 's description of the quarrel given with the maximum dramatic effect , had been accurate .
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