Example sentences of "[was/were] so far from " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were tired but unwilling to abandon themselves to sleep , so much had happened , they had come so far , left so much , found so little , were so far from what they had been . |
| 2 | There was an instant when both parties halted at gaze , no more than a quarter of a mile apart ; and though they were so far from him across the valley , he felt the shock of confrontation and recognition quiver through his own body as they measured each other . |
| 3 | What would our gates be like if our matches were so far from home ? |
| 4 | On the 12th green second time around he was so far from the hole he decided to use his wedge instead of his putter and took a six-inch divot out of the hallowed ground . |
| 5 | Alcuin was so far from being certain of this standing with Coenwulf that he asked a Mercian patrician — probably the senior Mercian ealdorman Brorda — to greet the king peaceably ‘ if it is possible to do so ’ . |
| 6 | It was so far from her usual style that Charles thought she must have undergone some violent change of personality . |
| 7 | It was so far from her real self that she might have laughed if she did n't feel so humiliated . |
| 8 | His answer was so far from the murmuring of her own mind that she could not comprehend what he was saying . |
| 9 | The boy was so far from being ill-used or closely confined that he apparently lived a normal life , at least within the walls , going and coming much as he pleased , and eating in hall like a member of the household . |