Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 At seven o'clock on a chilly Saturday evening in November , the shroud of darkness enveloping it was a kindness as far as Captain Roddy Simcox was concerned .
2 Touche Ross , the best young talent in Scotland at the moment , will start favourites , but with the league championship basically now a dream as far as Grange are concerned , this clash will undoubtedly lift them for what promises to be their most important game of the season .
3 We 're off to Scarborough to see the bakery busy preparing edible Pudsey Bears especially for Children in Need only just over a week away now and Jill Pattenden our woman 's health expert is in we 'll be talking about cervical smear tests and Jill can help you with period problems pregnancy child birth menopause contraception do ring us from eleven .
4 Joyce was now informed that since his problems concerned travel outside Germany , he must first take a train as far as Cologne and go to the consulate there .
5 The United States population increased by twenty-eight million in ten years , at a rate even faster than India 's .
6 Then , in a movement so fast that Isabel had to replay it later in her mind to sort everything out , fitzAlan flung his cloak over the drunk on his left and brought his sword slashing through the air to slice through the arm of the man on his right .
7 She 'd promised the girl a lift as far as Malaga .
8 ‘ I 've told her we 'll give her a lift as far as Malaga and that 's what we 'll do . ’
9 She asks for a lift as far as Stamford Hill .
10 The reef looked higher a litter further on and Wood started to taxi forward .
11 ‘ I 've never known a man empty a church as fast as Marr .
12 At Crewe south , on another occasion , Piccolo Pete Johnson succeeded in taking a Grange as far as Alsager before he stopped , but that is his story , and not mine .
13 Edward , brooding , remembered a summer long ago when Helen had brought back a schoolfriend and he had felt pushed aside , abandoned .
14 I was having a job to recognise what was a pa er , a paragraph as far as Microsoft Word is concerned is the space between two hits of the return key , okay ?
15 And I also thought to myself and I 'm probably going to move a lot further away than Fenn Lane .
16 It is , however , certain that Molla Fenari was in Karaman at a date much later than Bayezid I 's reign , as will be shown ; and as there is no evidence to suggest a journey before 800/1397 or to support the possibility that he made two journeys to Karaman , it seems justifiable to treat the Taskopruzade story with some caution .
17 And it would n't be the greatest shock if Bowe proved me wrong by recording a knockout as fast as Lewis 's at Earl 's Court .
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