Example sentences of "far [pers pn] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 I was so convinced of my calling so before it got that far I had to step hack from the relationship . "
2 I hope so , I 've got twenty out of twenty so far I have to do a spell test each day with twenty in , with twenty in each one
3 Yet so far I seem to have been treating nothing worse than chicken pox and ‘ flu .
4 After the lecture , every day threatened refutation , but so far I seem to have got away with it .
5 So far she had to agree .
6 Now declare how far you wish to shoot — eg 24″ , 30″ , 32″ etc .
7 Begin by aligning the catapult in the direction you wish to fire then declare how far you wish to fire .
8 Now declare how far you wish to throw the Doom Diver .
9 It is important to know what you want to get , and how far you want to go .
10 Choose where and how far you want to walk .
11 Now declare how far you want to fire the mortar shell .
12 You compare your performance with other companies ' to identify where and how far you need to catch up , and what practices you need to adopt in order to do so .
13 consider how far you need to know the local language ;
14 er right erm tt yep that seems to be okay I did n't erm no I was reading this on , this morning just after the clinical lecture and I did n't see anything that , that I thought would be problematic erm you know given , you know , sort of what I 've seen in your coursework so far you seem to have got a fairly good idea of what you can ask and what you can get away with and what sorts of things you think are useful and , and , and stuff like that so erm you know I 'm entirely happy with your judgment as to the content erm you know because it 's part of an ongoing pr project and it 's not just something that you 've , you 've knocked off in half an hour or anything so erm
15 How far you have to go before you get a main course ?
16 ‘ It 's every lad 's dream to play in the All Ireland final and now that we have got this far we want to make sure and win .
17 ‘ By the time we get through that little lot , ’ smiled Dr Danie Craven , ‘ at least we will know how bad we are and how far we have to go to catch up . ’
18 Wilma finished the session by cantering into four foot fences and popping over them as if they were no bigger than our two foot nine ones — which made me realise how far we have to go .
19 To get this far they had to swim from their breeding grounds in the Gulf of Mexico .
20 Ministers will clash over how far they intend to pay for capital spending projects by freezing the pay of public sector workers like teachers , nurses and doctors , or limiting rises to two per cent .
21 All multi-divisional companies face dilemmas and choices on the extent to which they seek to centralise or decentralise their operations and how far they try to fit their industrial relations into their strategic plans and organisational structure .
22 He encouraged himself with promises that after ten paces he could rest , then demanded of himself that he manage another five and another five until he lost count of how far he 'd come and how far he had to go .
23 He watched the cars and buses and vans and trucks pass by him , and calculated how far he had to go to get to the next parked car which would shield him from them .
24 It depended how far he had to drive .
25 ‘ We do n't know how far he has to go , but you can be sure others will be back for the horses .
26 It is up to him to ascertain how far he wishes to travel and by what route .
27 When the boat has heeled too far it tries to turn up into the wind and a lot of rudder movement is needed to keep it straight .
28 Unveiling the proposals , Delors called on the United Kingdom government to clarify how far it intended to go towards EMU .
29 The Library Association is increasing efforts in parliamentary lobbying but the question of how far it wants to go in challenging the use of legislation for censorship is unclear .
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