Example sentences of "far [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Good Christ , if they can make five miles a day when they have to fight through four systems of trenches and get right inside our Battle Zone , how bloody far d' you think they 'll go when we 've got nothing to hide behind except cow turds and haystacks ? ’
2 How far has it got ?
3 How far has he flown in this time ? unc Answer 54,825.0 kilometres Again the figures move to higher place values , this time two places to the left while the decimal holds its place .
4 If he 's been travelling for for zero hours , how far has he gone ?
5 Erm if he 's another easy one is if he 's been travelling for one hour how far has he gone ?
6 How far has he got after two mile after two hours ?
7 b ) How far has she travelled back from the market when her car engine went wrong ?
8 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 .
9 Commonwealth countries take the view that it is the limited sanctions so far applied which have done much to bring about the new climate represented by the de Klerk administration , and believe a turn of the screw would effect more change .
10 It is the only card he has left in a game which has so far seen her win every hand .
11 There 's only Alan so far says he 's got a problem .
12 What you have expressed so far leads me to believe that you totally agree with the concept of ethnic cleansing concentration camps because , unfortunately , such bigoted homophobia suggests equally bigoted sexism , racism and nationalism .
13 Plants are closing all over Europe as recession deepens on the continent and particular industries make the painful adjustments to their own private new world orders , but the announcement that Digital Equipment Corp was to close its venerable 22-year-old manufacturing plant in Galway has drawn international attention that far exceeds anything generated by threatened closures such as the even more venerable truck plant that is almost the only employer in the Lancashire town of Leyland , and involved a threat to many more jobs .
14 Yet volcanism is predominantly a submarine rather than a continental phenomenon since the outpouring of magma associated with submarine eruptions far exceeds anything witnessed on the continents .
15 The sacrifices themselves have disappeared , but they go far to help us understand the meaning of the cross , the sacrifice of Jesus Christ .
16 Very astutely , he uses most of his response to promote his latest tube amp launch : ie. ‘ our latest tube amp efforts far surpass anything done in the past ’ .
17 She was so far gone she had got seriously stupid .
18 I think they had their fun , she took the veronal to sleep soundly , then when she was far gone he smothered her . ’
19 in the erm Victorian period the stone was far so far rotted they inserted some new stones there .
20 Now , how far did we get with that ?
21 How far did it address their grievances ?
22 How far did it jump ?
23 Where it did not , how far did it allow him to assert himself against the trustee and the property he had acquired in place of the object under trust ?
24 How far did you fall ?
25 How far did he go ?
26 And how far did he go into the room at all ?
27 How far did he run in ten seconds ?
28 Well it 's , look he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark , ten seconds later he passed the two hundred and fifty metre mark , how far did he run in ten seconds and you 've put down a hundred metres
29 How far do they go ?
30 How far do they change ?
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