Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [vb pp] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just got far enough to notice |
| 2 | Egyptian sculptors had long known far more than their first Greek emulators about the structure of the human body , but the general effect of their work is ( as it was surely meant to be ) much less alive . |
| 3 | He turned to Marian but she had already plunged far down into unconsciousness , overwhelmed by the need for sleep . |
| 4 | Trouble is , I do n't know what he 'd do - " He broke off suddenly and turned his head away , whispering , " My father , my father , my father … " in a way so bitter and desperate that she turned to him and held him ; and although they had already stayed far longer than on previous nights , she had a sudden foreboding of events , so that she needed to love him again , now ; and a little while later , without thinking of the danger , she cried out with the joy of him : a single shriek in the night that echoed in the trees below the house and was followed by a strange , almost tangible silence . |
| 5 | One of Morelli 's youthful students was Bernard Berenson , whom Morelli described in 1890 as ‘ an extraordinarily scholarly young man who had already advanced far in the study of art ’ . |
| 6 | If Britain had suggested something like this several years earlier , it might have found some support within the Six , but by 1957 they had already passed far beyond that point . |
| 7 | Their marriage had always seemed far too secure . |
| 8 | They had both drunk far too much , yet it had been a very enjoyable evening and on the way home each vowed eternal friendship with the other . |