Example sentences of "far [adv] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd far rather you waited until it 's light , or went down for Bob . ’ |
| 2 | When he judged he had gone far enough he crept cautiously out to where the trees were more sparse . |
| 3 | So then you we can tighten in on the site to not only a place actually on the site but how far down they came from as well . |
| 4 | She had a computer actually on the it was on the side of a surveying instrument , so she was probably working out how far down she 'd actually dug by looking through the sights and reading the numbers and then she was entering up the numbers on the computer . |
| 5 | When she too heard the clatter of the galloping horse far below she went to the window , but there was no longer anything to see and only the sound of the nursemaids chattering . |
| 6 | It all went to show how far away she had grown from the life she had been used to lead ; and the marriage , of course , explained Papa 's sudden permission for her own . |
| 7 | Her father held her tightly until her eyes began to close and from far away she heard her mother pick up the cup and saucer . |
| 8 | Far away I heard the cry of the curlew like a bell tolling a lament for an ancient wrong unrighted . |
| 9 | Not far away I caught , from the corner of my eye , the flickering movement as a ringed plover scudded and ran among the sea-pinks . |
| 10 | Far away he thought he could see some goats grazing . |
| 11 | Far off she heard the drone of a tractor working late or set for home . |
| 12 | ‘ It was a huge blow to their pride to discover how far behind they had fallen during isolation — yet coach John Williams has now gone too far the other way . |
| 13 | He realized how far behind we lagged over here in this sort of Child Art Education . |
| 14 | You know communications is a very big area there 's a lot to be talked about erm certainly rapport and leading and things like that you asked for that we could 've done a lot more with , the type of language people use we could do a lot more with but when we 've got a limited time we 're gon na have to take a limited snapshot and I hope that what we 've done so far today you found useful and I hope when we put it into practice tomorrow maybe you can understand a little bit more of some of things that we 've been talking about today . |
| 15 | Almost all the media coverage would be about her and Charles , how far apart they stood , whether they spoke or looked at each other . |