Example sentences of "so far [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not once so far had they mentioned her by name , almost as though from some superstition . |
| 2 | She was so far gone she had got seriously stupid . |
| 3 | But a bungled , unlawful business deal has so far cost them £5.3m and led to the sacking of all the BRDC 's 12 directors . |
| 4 | For months , British diplomats have been wondering what to do with this thoroughbred stallion , an official present to the Prime Minister which has so far caused him nothing but embarrassment . |
| 5 | But while on the subject of confessing ignorance , I must also state that I have so far made it through life without witnessing or participating in an Orange Walk . |
| 6 | There 's only Alan so far says he 's got a problem . |
| 7 | It is the only card he has left in a game which has so far seen her win every hand . |
| 8 | Some of those who did not possess a faith in God which was proof against all adversities now saw that the great hope of a relief force reaching them , which had so far buoyed them up , was an illusory one ; even if a relief now came , in many different ways it would be too late and not only because so many of the garrison were already dead ; India itself was now a different place ; the fiction of happy natives being led forward along the road to civilization could no longer be sustained . |
| 9 | To what extent , however , can the principles that we have looked at so far help us in designing an organisational structure ? |
| 10 | But the volunteers have had to borrow one hundred thousand pounds so far to set it up . |
| 11 | What has so far prevented them from becoming assimilated to each other is not only the fact that in the field of psychotherapy , differing theories do not readily and happily intermix , but that each theory tends to take sides ( without this necessarily being apparent ) in the eternal dialogue between youth and age . |
| 12 | If you have not had a child , what factors have so far prevented you ? |
| 13 | ( Remember Russell 's chicken ( Russell , 1959 , p. 35 ) , whose true beliefs about the regularity with which it had been fed so far led it into a false belief about the security of its future . ) |
| 14 | Perhaps they reasoned that even if he managed to slip clear of the ropes he would have so far to fall it would n't matter . |
| 15 | The quantum theory created then has proved adequate for all that has so far followed it . |
| 16 | Well are yo is it going alright for you so far do you think ? |
| 17 | Where so far have you got to in , not recruiting at this time , but actually attempting to sell advertising in this particular area . |
| 18 | in the erm Victorian period the stone was far so far rotted they inserted some new stones there . |
| 19 | Again , that does n't get us anywhere at the moment , but it does slightly bear out the possibility that the man was a foreigner which would explain our total failure so far to get him identified . " |
| 20 | We were not gracious yesterday — especially as this child came so far to find us . |
| 21 | Oh please , thought Grainne , please let it be that , for I have come so far to find it . |
| 22 | ‘ Marriage will be the end of his talent , ’ Bonamy predicted , though I had not seen much talent in the poems Robin had so far shown me . |
| 23 | Heavy consumers of technology , most banks have so far used it more to automate existing ways of doing things than to invent entirely new ones . |
| 24 | His latest project ‘ The Duchess of Sutherland ’ , which is a copy of the full size engines and has so far taken him three years to build is just one of the engines which can be seen . |
| 25 | In the ease studies so far considered it has already been made clear that the particular study itself is , as it were , the product of a set of concerns in politics . |
| 26 | The generosity of people in the area so far gives them good cause to believe that they will succeed again over the next 12 months . |
| 27 | The cross-section data used so far gives us little indication about how many workers continue in employment long enough to recoup the wages that were deferred earlier in their career . |
| 28 | Bruckner was 39 and in the process of shaking the dust off a provincial career that had so far brought him distinction only as an organist and as a craftsman-composer of the old school . |
| 29 | Everyone who 's commented on the album so far reckons it 's pretty melancholy , but I do n't see it like that at all . |
| 30 | Everyone who 's commented on the album so far reckons it 's pretty melancholy , but I do n't see it like that at all . |