Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] far " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I saw myself as a write-off as far as boyfriends were concerned . |
| 2 | Today threatened to be a write-off as far as work was concerned , but perhaps she could recoup some of the lost time later on . |
| 3 | Furthermore , the pleiotropic expression pattern of SSRP1 ( 11 ) and T160 ( 22 ) may imply a more general function for these proteins , a function thus far unknown . |
| 4 | Trainer Toby Balding blamed Richard Guest for making too much use of Romany King and this hugely promising eight-year-old did probably start racing a bit too far from home for comfort . |
| 5 | And knowing he 'd gone a bit too far , and glad enough , now his fright and anger were fading , to have faced down Lachlan 's temper and Farquhar 's knife unharmed , Duncan Rua was satisfied to grin back , and turn aside to work the ship . |
| 6 | But when you have a solar eclipse in your sign at Christmas , things are going a bit too far . |
| 7 | I thought that might be pushing things a bit too far . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But , look , Gurder … maybe Angalo goes a bit too far , but he could be right . |
| 9 | It was an awful long walk , a bit too far for him , really . |
| 10 | The true goal is a summit to the right of the col , but the climber may begin a bit too far to the left and go up the other way . |
| 11 | Again Clare wondered if she had gone a bit too far , speaking so negatively about Gran 's novels , and being so emphatically against the trust . |
| 12 | Not only did he sponsor us , he kept referring to our escapade as ‘ canoeing ’ ; this was stretching things a bit too far . |
| 13 | We agree that most housewives are very undervalued and there should be far higher state benefits for the less well-off — particularly one-parent families — but is n't this taking things a bit too far ? |
| 14 | This is going a bit too far , he thought , as he hurried to the scene . |
| 15 | ‘ Do n't you think you 're taking this a bit too far ? |
| 16 | Some might say that sending in a college principal to validation events in order to advise on SCOTVEC policies is carrying things a bit too far . |
| 17 | They realise that their route to the Community can be opened only if their countries are practising real democracy in respect of human rights , and multi-party Parliaments — although I said to my Polish friends , ’ You can go a bit too far . ’ |
| 18 | Erm but I think it 's gone a bit too far the other way this time unfortunately . |
| 19 | This could be taking fatherley pride a bit too far . |
| 20 | Actually I 've moved it a bit too far that way have I ? |
| 21 | Just then , a lovely blue swallow alighted on a branch not far away , and Little Billy saw a mother Minpin and her two children climb quite casually onto the swallow 's back . |
| 22 | Don Mini paused and turned his eyes upon Little Billy who was sitting on a branch not far away . |
| 23 | Despite the reported remarks ‘ to scorer colleagues … it must be very difficult to give a decision so far out ’ , it is n't ; we stand at a distance from which we can see . |
| 24 | When choosing a route consider the capabilities and limitations of all your party to ensure you do n't tackle a ridge too far . |
| 25 | Even a writer as far removed from the field covered in this book as John Le Carré owes a great deal , in all but his latest work , to the blueprint detective story . |
| 26 | Well , you talked about us having prisoners , did n't you , well there was a camp not far from us , got these Italian prisoners to come and do the ditching . |
| 27 | As a verb it means simply ‘ to copulate ’ and the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary traces its literary use as a verb as far back as 1503 , when the poet ( and sometime Franciscan friar ) William Dunbar included this line in one of his verses : ‘ Be his feiris he wald have fukkit ’ . |
| 28 | We returned to the car and drove on until we came to a small wooden bridge spanning a rivulet of water coming from a waterfall not far up the hillside behind . |
| 29 | A drawing by Webber , the artist assigned by the Admiralty to Cook 's third voyage , of Keelakekula Bay inscribed ‘ the Place where Captain Cook was killed ’ is reputed to have already found a buyer not far below its original purchase price . |
| 30 | Whether Euric really could enforce a settlement so far away is open to question , but clearly he tried to exert influence considerably to the north-east of his own territories . |