Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] far " in BNC.

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1 I guessed that she had been blown far from her oasis , and now there was no landmark other than the wheelbarrow , not a tree , not a blade of grass , not a ripple on the plain , nor a rock bigger than my fist .
2 The next-door train had been left far behind .
3 When all these lights had been left far behind him and there was nothing but darkness on either side , Gazzer was still running .
4 Then it had suddenly been galloping over the sleeping bodies of a large wolf pack and , again , its mad speed had been such that the furious yelping had been left far behind .
5 An angry Queen Victoria , however , felt it had been lifted far too much , particularly over the clashes between Palmerston as foreign secretary and the prince consort .
6 Brotherton & Harris ( 1988 ) point to increased difficulties in arranging back-up services and in discharging patients into community health services , if their hospital services had been provided far from their home locations .
7 He had not been impaled , but the spike had been driven far upwards from near his throat before his body had slumped clear .
8 They had been driven far further north than he had expected .
9 Friends of the Earth welcomed the licences in principle but said the limits had been set far too high , condemning " vast tracts of countryside to damage by acid rain for decades to come " .
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