Example sentences of "so far [vb pp] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was so far gone she had got seriously stupid . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is the only card he has left in a game which has so far seen her win every hand . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If you have not had a child , what factors have so far prevented you ? |
| 9 | The quantum theory created then has proved adequate for all that has so far followed it . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | With the minor forms so far described it is possible to investigate causes by means of almost full-sized experiments , but the formation of dunes proper involves the usual sort of inferential argument based on field observation commonly employed by geomorphologists . |
| 16 | The Seychelles kestrel had so far eluded me , but I met an English birder while I was trying again to photograph waders in the harbour of Victoria , and he told me a pair had nested in one of the church towers in the town . |
| 17 | Only a bull seladang , the giant wild ox of Asia , had so far eluded them . |
| 18 | This could be the year Nigel Mansell finally overcomes his great rival Ayrton Senna and clinches the world motor racing championship which has so far eluded him . |
| 19 | That 's what Mansell does — not merely racing , but striving for the supreme prize which has so far eluded him . |
| 20 | For the British driver , it would be just one more step towards the world title which has so far eluded him . |
| 21 | Is this what we have been waiting for all these years , the answer that has so far eluded us ? |
| 22 | They can only conclude that ‘ Either badgers waste energy with the continued digging or very large burrows confer an advantage that has so far eluded us . ’ |