Example sentences of "far [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However — ’ he shrugged ‘ — my vet in Westmead ca n't be expected to come out so far so I 've obviously got to find one for this shop . ’ |
| 2 | William says that he wants to win and then hopefully look towards the world championship and then the next Europeans … it 's been a good year so far so he hopes it ends like that anyway |
| 3 | He 's also been careful to work er with the United Nations who have done er much better so far than they have in er some crises in the past . |
| 4 | So far if we take on the ninety ninety two figures we attended something like eight hundred bonfires . |
| 5 | There is unlikely to be a Day of the Jackal in Baghdad , therefore , Iraq is a closed society , and no hawk-faced marksman will get far if he tries to stalk Saddam . |
| 6 | ‘ I know , I know , it 's early days , as you said — but you 're just not the type to let him go this far if you had any serious doubts . ’ |
| 7 | If a horse does pull from anxiety , it is always worthwhile trying a milder bit — in an enclosed space , he can not go far if it does not work . |
| 8 | There 's no point in going this far unless you have the family behind you . |
| 9 | We have taken it this far because we wanted some justice . |
| 10 | These short waves can not travel far because they bounce off even small objects . |
| 11 | It 's that quick , choking defence that has frustrated Midlands , England B and The North so far because it does not allow the backs room in which to play . |
| 12 | We 're both disabled : my wife is almost completely unable to walk , and I ca n't go very far because I 've recently lost half a lung |
| 13 | I have said nothing to anyone so far because I have never been quite sure how much it might affect Mr. Andrew . |
| 14 | Ward said : ‘ He is causing a bit of a headache for us , but he 's been able to get away with it so far because he has been unknown , but it will be increasingly difficult for him if he keeps trying . ’ |
| 15 | You can be sure that , slump or no slump , the Champenois are n't going to drop their prices very far before they start cutting corners . |
| 16 | We had n't gone far before we spied the punt entangled in the branches of a willow which had collapsed into the stream . |
| 17 | But it was a damp , grey morning , and they had n't gone far before it came on to rain . |
| 18 | So far though it has not been a problem raising money for the sharp end of mountain rescue — for new ropes or new vehicles and the like . |
| 19 | As far as everyone knew , he had been the last person to see Zambia at the Club . |
| 20 | In so far as one concentrates on manufacturing output , the fall was in the earlier part of this period . |
| 21 | In so far as one regards sexuality as a biological means towards the reproductive end I think homosexuality can be regarded as deviant : it is a deviation from the heterosexual norm of most living things . |
| 22 | Just in so far as we cause the Government to persecute those who believe in peace , so we may be doing the greatest service … to stimulate the national consciousness in [ the ] direction [ of peace ] . ’ |
| 23 | Now we were to try something which , as far as we knew , had n't been offered to the viewers before . |
| 24 | The hearing began on 29 June at which time , so far as we knew , W. 's condition was stable or deteriorating only slowly , although there had been some further loss of weight . |
| 25 | Our captivity had never been linked to theirs , as far as we knew . |
| 26 | As far as we knew , Frank had never been claimed and , having been quite cut off in Lebanon for a number of years before his kidnap , had less ‘ publicity ’ value than the other Yanks . |
| 27 | As far as we knew , the only block to Britain 's continued improvement in relations with Iran had been the Rushdie affair . |
| 28 | As far as we knew every previous expedition had ferried the sheep by dinghy , a tedious operation which must have been hard on both men and sheep , to say nothing of the dinghy . |
| 29 | While in Donna di Porto Pim , the writer , having sailed for many days and nights , has understood that ‘ the West has no end but continues to move as we move , and that we can follow it as far as we like and never reach it ’ ( Tabucchi 1983 : 13 ; the notion is echoed in the title of Tabucchi 's later novel , Il filo dell'orizzonte ( The horizon 's edge , ( 1986 ) , the Indian journey proceeds , not always straightforwardly , towards an end of a sort . |
| 30 | which we can be sure , or think we can be sure , of biological connection is always very narrow ; but sociological kinship , which depends only on our willingness to slot individuals into particular verbal categories , can be extended as far as we like , or rather as far as local convention requires , and that may be thousands of miles and include many thousands of individuals . |