Example sentences of "up [adv] far [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best thing for them to do would be likewise to get their profits up as far as possible above the datum line . |
| 2 | Gazzer wasted twenty minutes on the sea front waiting for a bus to take him up as far as the Leisure Centre . |
| 3 | He marked in the cabin , the quarry , and the track up as far as the cabin and back down through the dip to the fork . |
| 4 | Paddy Mayne was to concentrate on the road between Agheila and Bouerat , while B Squadron was to move to the west , raiding up as far as Tripoli . |
| 5 | The battle continued up as far as Wight and across to France and Gravelines until , as the world knows , ‘ God blew with his wind and they were scattered ’ . |
| 6 | Raise the eyebrows , forcing them up as far as you can as if trying to make them meet your hair line . |
| 7 | I mean , they had a big influence , the Brontes , right up as far as modren days , no doubt about it . |
| 8 | It said , ‘ Bring these men up as far as the penthouse , no further . |
| 9 | Jack crept up as far as he dared and then froze . |
| 10 | As you go through these , try to aim for clarity and smoothness , not just speed ( and if you have a 21-fret guitar , obviously only play up as far as you can go ! ) . |
| 11 | The others got out of the rope , and Slingsby , climbing up as far as possible , stood on a little step just below , with his hands on the platform . |
| 12 | ‘ Umm , I just turn my guitar up as far as it will go , ’ explains the puzzled axe hero . |
| 13 | if he had been chasing his flying tent up from the machair on the west of the island , he might have got up as far as the bogland near the lochan , but surely the light from my cottage would not be visible until he had followed the road downhill past the curve and almost into Otters ' Bay . |
| 14 | I find a track leading off the road into a stand of trees ; I take the car up as far as it will go , then turn the lights out . |
| 15 | Therefore , unless hiking with considerable fortitude , the only way to approximate their journey is to take the normal road up as far as Invermoriston and then continue on its south-western fork , the A887 , and in time it becomes the road — or so I presume — ; Johnson and Boswell travelled , the one cut by General Wade , straight across the rising land and emerging a little over half-way along the present road through Glenmoriston . |
| 16 | Saddam 's War takes us up as far as the back-end of last year , but the core of the book is concerned with Saddam 's rise to power and his success in surviving the Iran-Iraq War and turning Iraq into the most heavily armed state in the Arab world . |
| 17 | By this time , the southern part of the north Atlantic was presumably wide open , and I strongly suspect a crack going up as far as east Greenland . |
| 18 | He appeared totally oblivious of her presence and did n't even look up as far as she was aware . |
| 19 | British Railways , like the Great Western before them , continued to run the supply trains up as far as Cleobury North Crossing . |
| 20 | ‘ I saw the Engine on the Railway up as far as Lydham 's Heath Pool it was up nearly as far yesterday ’ . |
| 21 | They occupied sites along the course of the Water of Leith past Canonmills and up as far as Dean Village . |
| 22 | The courts seem to take the view that the minimum mark-up is usually in the region of 50 per cent of the hourly rate , and can rise in personal injury cases to 75 per cent in a very big , difficult case , and could go up as far as 100 per cent or more for cases of the greatest difficulty or where quantum is huge and complex . |
| 23 | He wanted to run his fingers up as far as they would go , but he remained motionless , like a frozen frame in a black and white film . |
| 24 | ‘ No officers coughin' up as far as I can see , ’ said Tommy . |