Example sentences of "far he [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was often overcome with temptation when faced with such delights as chicken dumplings and ice-cream and treacle suet pudding , and so far he had been lucky . |
| 2 | So far he had been quiet , staring into the darkness , though keeping a careful eye on Sir John . |
| 3 | So far he had been able to maintain a claim to even-handedness on the grounds that he treated both sides , Moslems and Copt , with equal severity . |
| 4 | But after that Pete had sworn that he 'd touch nothing stronger than tapwater for the rest of the evening , and so far he 'd been sticking to it . |
| 5 | The writer of this book has to confess that so far he has been so hidebound by tradition that he has not yet brought himself to write key-signatures for the horns , but he admits that the only argument in favour of this is that the lack of signature acts as a guide to the conductor 's eye in spotting the horn parts in the score . |
| 6 | With each passing second he is becoming more painfully conscious of quite how far he has been dragged from the track of normal professional propriety . |
| 7 | Mr Stafford Smith is doing his best to reverse the growing trend towards execution and so far he has been very successful . |
| 8 | Then they turn against him and show how far he has been deluded . |