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

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1 She felt a deep flush of embarrassment crawl up her neck as she gauged how far the sound of her and Mandy 's conversation might have carried .
2 The fact that the government thought it vital to supplement the economic incentives of NEP by a new Agrarian Code , brought out at the end of 1922 , showed how far the Famine had altered previous calculations .
3 Clinical research showed how far the human circulation behaved like that of other animals , and how it changed as diseases advanced .
4 Nationally it showed how far the state was prepared to go to force an industry on a recalcitrant community and how , when a choice existed between the interests of foreign capital and the health and safety of both community members and workers , the state and its various organizations defended and protected the multinational .
5 But even as he stepped off the plane from Taipei , a slip of the tongue showed how far the two sides have drifted apart , and how unreal to Taiwanese is the official vision of reunification .
6 Violent race riots in 1943 in both Detroit ( where 25 blacks died ) and in Harlem showed how far the black still had to go to achieve equality .
7 ‘ When I started , I erred too far the wrong way and was massacring copy . ’
8 Well I never heard the well he had applied once before and he he got as far an interview and then he did n't get any further .
9 But in the conodonts examined so far the crystalline structure within this layer is very variable .
10 In all the examples cited so far the dissociation of habituation and latent inhibition has taken the form of showing that certain procedures abolish the latter while leaving the former intact .
11 Lord Denning first considered how far the words ‘ if it appears to the Secretary of State ’ put his decision beyond judicial challenge .
12 Sidacai went out through the door , and Jehan speared another segment of apple and ate it while he considered how far the agreement which he had obtained from Sidacai could be trusted .
13 Molly wondered how far the language tapes borrowed from the Fulham Public Library had allowed her father to penetrate the political opinions of a Tuscan cleric .
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