Example sentences of "[vb mod] get [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | All right , you might find everything that crawls in the yard an' they might get as far as downstairs here and there , but not up here . |
| 2 | We 'll get on far quicker . ’ |
| 3 | The final text substitutes waistcoat for frock-coat — ‘ I do n't think they 'll get as far as taking my waistcoat off ’ — even better for the pampered softy with his vein of oldwomanish guile . |
| 4 | In the same fiat tone my father went on ; ‘ Well , I do n't suppose he 'll get this far . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I do n't think he 'll get this far . |
| 6 | But then again , you could n't have predicted they 'd get this far in the first place . |
| 7 | On this assumption , a Cambridge don , John Michell , wrote a paper in 1783 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in which he pointed out that a star that was sufficiently massive and compact would have such a strong gravitational field that light could not escape : any light emitted from the surface of the star would be dragged back by the star 's gravitational attraction before it could get very far . |
| 8 | But who could get this far and not just push it a little bit ? |
| 9 | Adam , celebrating his second victory over Johnson this week , gasped : ‘ I did n't think I could get this far . |
| 10 | Ooh yes , definitely , definitely yes , I would say you , you know nobody ever expected they could get this far and I , I 've heard people say this , you know . |
| 11 | But erm , yes I 've heard a lot of people say that er , they never thought they could get this far . |
| 12 | I could get in far easier by just busting a window . ’ |
| 13 | It used to be said with a considerable amount of justification that you could get as far as Inspector on your own bat but after that ‘ No ’ , you needed somebody pushing you — city councillor , anything . |
| 14 | Initially they could get as far as point A , then only as far as point B , and then only as far as point C. Thus the circle of safety tends to diminish gradually . |
| 15 | The other one never used to , the other one used to get as far as Ken 's house and fail . |
| 16 | Let's get as far away as we can . ’ |
| 17 | Someone will reach for a tin of fish-paste only to be brought up short by another member of the party reminding them that fish-paste is unclean , while someone else may get as far as the checkout with a year 's supply of baked beans , when , across the crowded shelves of the supermarket , comes a voice reminding them of the danger they are facing . |
| 18 | The comforting knowledge that at least she will get as far as the British Embassy tonight gives her the strength for attack . |
| 19 | The opening paragraph of The Autocar 's November 1965 test of a privately owned car ( to much the same spec as our example ) read : ‘ Few readers indeed will get this far before turning to the data page which follows , for the name of AC Cobra is synonymous with performance . |
| 20 | If you 're both not comfortable with the words used , neither of you will get very far . |
| 21 | Also , as you get friendlier , you can get too far away from the centre of the life . |
| 22 | Metro Saverstrip — only for journeys in West Yorkshire ; Metro DayRover — you can get as far as Manchester with this if you 're elderly or disabled and are permitted to take a dog or other authorized companion . |
| 23 | The 1991 season may turn out to be Jon Solly 's last serious crack at the 10,000m , but he is confident that he can get as far as Tokyo for the World Championships . |
| 24 | D' you think you can get as far as The Angel at Lacock ? |
| 25 | That is also when you hear stories of doubting runners who have not covered more than 12 miles at a time in training suddenly attempting a 20-miler four days before the actual marathon , just to see if they can get that far ! |
| 26 | well you can get so far , but then I work the brackets out and you do n't always have to work the brackets out |