Example sentences of "[vb pp] to the far " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the budget fixed for the current year was £20 million and the £7 million underspent in the first two years of the scheme did not go back to the Treasury — it was not lost to computerisation — but was committed to the further development of GP computerisation . |
| 2 | Last comes the master volume rotary , with the mains rocker switch located to the far right . |
| 3 | Few German soldiers had penetrated to the far side of the island and none had entered The Tamarisks . |
| 4 | This latter tradition remained geographically confined to the Far East and continued to flourish until it was gradually replaced , from the eighteenth century AD , by Western-style coinage . |
| 5 | Jack Jones found himself assailed by Paul Johnson , the ex-editor of the New Statesman who had moved to the far right , as ‘ The Emperor Jones ’ , almost a fourth estate of the realm in himself and the symbol of overweening trade-union power . |
| 6 | Julie used Nigger 's real name in a voice shrill with alarm as several customers in the vicinity moved to the far end of the bar in one fluid movement . |
| 7 | Johnny had moved to the far end of the room and she could no longer see him , but she could guess at the expression on his face . |
| 8 | Dot woke when she heard Gloria coming down the clanky metal steps outside , heard her stumble her way across the room , and then felt herself being pushed to the far side of the bed . |
| 9 | The roof was perhaps twelve feet above the ground , and stretched to the far end of the open area . |
| 10 | An unbroken plain of white stretched to the far horizon , only the faintest shadings of light indicating any variation in the almost dead flat land . |
| 11 | I would retain my commission in the Dutch Navy , and be posted to the far east to be stationed in Java . ’ |
| 12 | He 'd been posted to the Far East in the 1930 's and as a police office , he was captured at the fall of Singapore and imprisoned in the Japanese death camps . |
| 13 | Town 's drugs are often made in Britain , flown to the Far East or some other convenient staging post and then brought back on the next night — to be sold more cheaply than if they had never left Britain . |
| 14 | Cecilia turned somewhat fearfully back and saw that the man and the bear had gone to the far end of the coach where a woman not much younger than herself sat alone . |
| 15 | He cared enough about his loathsome , drunken and violent third wife , Mayo Methot , not to leave her until he knew she had gone to the furthest extremes to try and cure herself of the alcoholism that threatened to ruin both their lives . |
| 16 | She hoped he had not gone to the further fields . |
| 17 | There were three washbasins fixed to the far wall ; over the centre one was a pocket mirror one corner of which had broken and swung away on the screw to live a life of its own . |
| 18 | He kicked open the door and rushed to the far end of a large room . |
| 19 | Practising their bows in front of bedroom mirrors in their eagerness to be accepted , they quickly realise they are doomed to the furthest fringes of company life . |
| 20 | The schemata are gardens of meditation and when I think of poetry , I am taken to the far country of Li Po , and then I see Thoreau and Jnandas and Rumi and a hundred poets ; their images throng my mind and I am moved and tears come to my eyes . |
| 21 | They had ridden to the far end of the long gravel ridge . |
| 22 | Fourth September — news at Brigade H.Q that the Brigade would be returning to England on the 6th September to reorganise and prepare to be sent to the Far East and continue the war against the Japanese . |
| 23 | Well , I have practised yoga for many years , but then I met a Jesuit priest who had been sent to the Far East by the Catholic Church to experience the Buddhist way and see how it might relate to Catholic worship . |
| 24 | from the beginning , the partners set out to offer a global service , establishing a European and North American network of associated consultancies , shortly to be extended to the far East . |
| 25 | His second was planted to the far side of the penalty box where the lanky Whelan — no relation to Liverpool 's Ronnie — headed in with great strength on his League debut . |
| 26 | Yet Gemma had shown nothing but good-humour when Tristan had subscribed to the Far Flatley hunt and stabled a tall bay mare and a chestnut gelding at Almsmead . |