Example sentences of "[verb] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Enkidu 's death Gilgamesh wandered far and wide in his grief encountering among others the proverbial survivor of the great flood , Utnapishtim , who told him how he had been warned in a dream by a god of the imminent deluge , and instructed to build a great boat into which he was to take the seed of all living creatures . |
| 2 | They stopped far beer and then waited anxiously at an agreed spot for Minto and the others . |
| 3 | Frank McAvennie was first after he twice refused to stand far enough back to allow Vreto to take a throw-in . |
| 4 | Frank McAvennie was first after he twice refused to stand far enough back to allow Vrto to take a throw-in . |
| 5 | This book will not provide a definitive study of the reign of Mary Queen of Scots ; such a study lies far in the future , if it can ever be achieved at all . |
| 6 | Our questions ranged far and wide and his courtesy and patience turned them into an intriguing trail of discovery which was endlessly fascinating and richly rewarding , for he is also a natural raconteur . |
| 7 | The arguments before us ranged far and wide , as they did before the judge , but in the end they resolved into the following issues which I propose to consider seriatim. ( 1 ) Can a non-trading corporation sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation when no actual financial loss is pleaded or established ? ( 2 ) Does the right to freedom of expression affect the position where the non-trading corporation is also a public authority ? ( 3 ) Does the operation of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 , or any other matter contained in or omitted from the council 's statement of claim , preclude the council from continuing with this action ? |
| 8 | Although he now lives far from the art and theatre world of London on which he thrived for so long , Milligan would not want more arts in the countryside . |
| 9 | ‘ She must first ask her father who lives far away . ’ |
| 10 | " She lives far from here , " said the wise woman . |
| 11 | He had sat far back and to one side but the congregation was small for the early morning service and he had seen everything clearly . |
| 12 | Despite the Encomiast 's tale of how Cnut 's men , searching far and wide for a suitable wife , eventually found her in Normandy , it may be , as Keynes has argued , that Emma had remained in England throughout . |
| 13 | They were both Swiss , both Reformed ( i.e. Calvinist ) , both theologians rather than historians or biblical specialists , and both men of immense intellectual power and energy , capable of ranging far and wide over the whole spread of Christian thought in search of the resources and materials to fashion the theology which had to be reconstructed . |
| 14 | rabbits were rigorously protected for hundreds of years and soon spread far and wide to become the most familiar wild animal of the British mainland . |
| 15 | And chairman Dave Richards is looking far beyond a climb from the bottom half of the Premier League , a position Francis insists is false . |
| 16 | Walsh was ecstatic : now the paper was looking far beyond the Right-On supporters ' group and being told what he had always wanted to believe — there was a large group of solid working-class people fed up with the frivolity in the existing tabloids . |
| 17 | And indeed when she reached the parish church she received a moment of instant gratification at the sight of her dear friend Lizzie Braithwaite looking far from her best in a regal but positively strident magenta . |
| 18 | But Sheila says far from welcoming a break from the kids , she does n't like to have too tidy a house . |
| 19 | Political expediency seemed far from his mind . |
| 20 | His marital troubles seemed far from his mind as he laughed and joked with the celebrity audience including actresses Patricia Routledge , Alison Steadman , and Frances Barber at the National Theatre . |
| 21 | TERRY Venables was ousted as chief executive of Tottenham Hotspur yesterday but the bruising battle for the club 's future seemed far from over last night . |
| 22 | Bunker knew instinctively that Clasper could not , and would not , resolve the dispute himself and that the effects of the stoppage would very soon be felt far beyond the confines of United Motors as one supply industry after another experienced a precipitous drop in demand . |
| 23 | Yet the inconvenience of this system is felt far beyond the immediate families involved . |
| 24 | They had told her in hospital that the glass had cut into an artery and she had needed transfusions but although she had felt far from well this morning she was certainly feeling worse now . |
| 25 | The effects of the blast will be felt far beyond the city or the province . |
| 26 | ‘ Poor ’ in person , the monks enjoyed nevertheless a standard of living far above the Sussex norm , a situation made clear by the accounts of the late fourteenth-century cellarer , Brother Thomas Ellam , who bought the bulk provisions the monks needed : |
| 27 | Au pairs ' hours have to be fitted around language classes and travelling and so are unlikely to fit in with yours , unless you are prepared to compromise a great deal and have the energy after work to deal with the appalling homesickness experienced by young people living far from home . |
| 28 | If you are a commoner they will not be among the nobility , since you can not hope to compete with them , nor will they be people living far away with whom you have no dealings . |
| 29 | We do n't feel far from home , we feel we have another home . |
| 30 | If flowers are preferred , it is a case of what to leave out , rather than hunting far and wide for attractive herb species . |