Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more refined psycho than , say , Lee Marvin or Neville Brand , but a crazy 's still a crazy and I did n't think someone that far gone could take up where Daine had left off . |
| 2 | ‘ Personally , I would n't trust you as far as I could proverbially throw you ! |
| 3 | Do n't trust anybody too far . |
| 4 | I do n't trust anyone as far as I could throw them : it 's as simple as that . |
| 5 | And we would polish them so far , then kick them up and down the shop you know , to make them |
| 6 | It will show you how far our technology has advanced in the last few years . |
| 7 | To go into detail would carry us too far from the main pathway of this chapter , for you will remember that we are already out on a digression . |
| 8 | As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru . |
| 9 | ‘ I did n't follow you very far . ’ |
| 10 | While in Donna di Porto Pim , the writer , having sailed for many days and nights , has understood that ‘ the West has no end but continues to move as we move , and that we can follow it as far as we like and never reach it ’ ( Tabucchi 1983 : 13 ; the notion is echoed in the title of Tabucchi 's later novel , Il filo dell'orizzonte ( The horizon 's edge , ( 1986 ) , the Indian journey proceeds , not always straightforwardly , towards an end of a sort . |
| 11 | So now can you see how politically , there is a kind of political subtext to this section erm as I say you can only follow it so far down a road then you come to a dead end but I think it 's there and you ca n't really ignore it , the political subtext . |
| 12 | A hundred-odd pounds would n't take me very far . |
| 13 | ‘ My belly would n't take me that far , ’ Sally groaned . |
| 14 | ( The so-called bra half is also used and written ( To explain what purpose it serves would take me too far into the mathematical mysteries of dual vector spaces and scalar products — see Appendix , A4 . ) |
| 15 | Not too far , do n't take him too far down , I thought . |
| 16 | Napier was not the only sheriff to find that there was more honour than reward in his office , for according to the petition submitted by Erskine of Alva , who had been appointed sheriff-depute of Perthshire in 1748 , his salary of £250 per annum did not take him very far , for his county , |
| 17 | This will be the start of a one month Scottish tour which Pam hopes will take her as far north as Nairn . |
| 18 | ‘ I have no future but my children and my wife will take it as far as it goes . |
| 19 | Cos otherwise people 'll have it so far in advance of their appraisal . |
| 20 | Just as we have adopted an intuitive approach to the concept of set so we shall allow our intuition to guide us in the matter of whether or not an explanation is logically acceptable : to formalise the notion of acceptability would take us too far afield , into symbolic logic . |
| 21 | It would take us too far afield to examine the content of this apostolic ‘ Word ’ . |
| 22 | If , however , we take The Politics ofthe Developing Areas as a classic of functionalist politics , we find that the statements on bureaucracy in the area studies presented there do not take us as far forward as the theoretical scheme promises . |
| 23 | This is fundamental , and will be of importance later , in connection with Quantum Theory , but does not take us very far forward . |
| 24 | This definition does not take us very far , however . |
| 25 | But although by themselves they do not take us this far , they do at least point the way . |
| 26 | We set out before 7 a.m. , but Jean-Claude did not tell me how far away the château stood , or how long it would take to reach the boundary of the domain . |
| 27 | That 's all I can tell you so far . |
| 28 | No , I 'll tell you how far the rain affected us personally , you know the , well the antique shop at the end of our road |
| 29 | Oh well , she could n't drag herself as far as the Rex . |
| 30 | People are talking about millions for the other two but clubs can forget it as far as Newcastle are concerned . ’ |