Example sentences of "[was/were] so far [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Germany just after the First World War , for example , working class organisations were so far removed from both the objective interests of the class and the concern of its members that they were incapable of seizing the revolutionary opportunities open to them . |
| 2 | She was so far gone she had got seriously stupid . |
| 3 | She was so far gone that Joey had to help her walk across the field to where he had parked . |
| 4 | Lizzy was so far gone by this time that she just smiled at them as they took her out to the meat wagon . |
| 5 | By the time his aunt arrived Jamie was so far recovered as to be able to refuse to go home and to point out , severely , that he would be needed , either to assist the police or to be lead rider in the eleven-thirty class , or possibly both . |
| 6 | The body had been unrecognizable , because decomposition was so far advanced . |
| 7 | After the glimpse of Scandinavia through Riborg , and later the experience of Hungary , Jane was so far carried away by her enthusiasm for classless freedom , the beauty of northern landscapes , plus the humorous awareness of the central European people , that when a Finn crossed her path , she was fair game . |
| 8 | There seemed little else that he could do , but it was so far removed from his own branch of medicine , so alien to anything he could have foreseen happening to Celia . |
| 9 | By turning the show into a theatrical display , Laura felt comfortable ; it was so far removed from reality that it could be viewed as a staged drama with no intention of portraying a ‘ Laura Ashley ’ customer in real life . |
| 10 | He had guessed that this place was a palace to her , and she wondered suddenly if she was a complete fool even to consider getting mixed up in his world , when it was so far removed from her own . |
| 11 | Since that hope was so far removed from the reality of what had actually happened , Rory felt a peculiar desire to giggle . |