Example sentences of "far out " in BNC.
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| 1 | What appeared to be the last rites were then administered by Kevin McDonald , whoise storming try was converted by Pugh , but with three minutes to go Moon , not to be eclipsed , cut loose for his third try and Watkins landed the match-winning conversion from far out on the left . |
| 2 | POP / Far Out sounds from Stourbridge : Giles Smith samples The Wonder Stuff and chooses the gigs of the week |
| 3 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
| 4 | Far out to sea lies the gannet colony of Grassholm . |
| 5 | ‘ Wow , far out , and it 's organic man . ’ |
| 6 | The bands started playing around 11 in the evening and , basically , people did n't go there for the music but to get a sleep if they lived too far out from central London to get home after the tubes had closed down for the night . |
| 7 | The post office was owned by two white-haired sisters , Annie and Lizzie , far out cousins of her own , and Annie stamped the envelope for her , postmarked it and dropped it in the calico bag on the counter . |
| 8 | The further out , the more FAR OUT . |
| 9 | Chimney sweeps are few , and are not always willing to come so far out for a couple of chimneys . |
| 10 | Sea-birds , like snowflakes , turned lazily far out over the mud flats … . |
| 11 | The tide had turned long ago and the sea had slushed gently down the sands , withdrawing into its channels , then back into the deep water far out in the Estuary . |
| 12 | There were a couple of diggers far out . |
| 13 | Would it be worthwhile for each discipline to set up think tanks — if one does not already exist — of their most imaginative scientists , engineers etc , with , perhaps , three remits : ( i ) to identify major problems for which current and foreseeable knowledge offers no solution ; ( ii ) to pinpoint what basic knowledge is needed , what would be the characteristics of the ideal chemical or other material , together with the relevant techniques for using them ; ( iii ) recognising that what is being considered may be so far out of sight as to be beyond worthwhile research based on existing knowledge and know-how , to organise a system that will recognise the first appearance of the new knowledge and then steer research in the right direction without delay . |
| 14 | However far out an animal may seem to be going there is a tendency to swing back into a pre-ordained behaviour or orbit within which motivational satisfaction may be most probably attained . |
| 15 | In general , modern fishing is far too efficient for its own good , with ships often removing entire shoals in one sweep , far out to sea . |
| 16 | ‘ As I said , it 's not that far out my way . ’ |
| 17 | And far out on the perimeter of empire in the Russian Middle East , where — apart from the mullahs — there was no intelligentsia , Russian colonization of the nomadic grazing lands made class conflicts over land and revolutionary land reform vital national issues . |
| 18 | THERE 'S SOMETHING PARTICULARLY DELICIOUS ABOUT MOUNTAINS THAT ARE hidden away far out of sight from any road , and Carn Dearg , near Loch Pattack , is a prime example . |
| 19 | But we missed a couple of fairways and he was n't strong enough to hit far out of that heavy rough . |
| 20 | COLBERT : Oh man , they 're so far out they 've seen Pluto , those guys . |
| 21 | We were too far out now to risk heading in : we were bound to be caught smack in the impact zone . |
| 22 | The first few occasions I experienced this enigma I put it down simply to the fact that I was fishing too far out and the bream were brushing against the line and giving me ‘ line ’ bites . |
| 23 | Jo contemplates the great cross on its summit , ‘ the crowning confusion of the great , confused city ; — so golden , so high up , so far out of reach ’ , BH 19 ; its picture , ‘ with a pink dome ’ , on the lid of Peggotty 's work-box , DC 2 ; David and Peggotty visit it , DC 33 ; its ‘ deep bell ’ , DC 47 ; Master Humphrey inspects the cathedral clock , ‘ the great Heart of London ’ , MHC 6 ; John Browdie marvels at the building 's size , NN 39 ; statues of the apostles on its exterior , NN 45 ; Oliver in Fagin 's den as lonely as if he were in the ball on top of the cathedral , OT 18 . |
| 24 | We choose to use the outer thirds because we want the line to be drawn between two points as far away as possible without being so far out that they risk being unreliable . |
| 25 | Thus the sphere of influence of Tyneside spreads far out into the surrounding countryside and along the coast . |
| 26 | The queue stretched far out of the bar into the companionway and the mood and manners were reminiscent of the Greenock fiends JTR took such exception to . |
| 27 | I had an instant picture of this docile boat now chugging at nine knots with a following wind on a choppy but inland loch , far out in the North Sea bucking and corkscrewing , the bow sickeningly below the waves as often as not . |
| 28 | ‘ Far out ! ’ she replied with gusto . |
| 29 | That 's why the hospital 's so far out of town . |
| 30 | Panting and breathless , she forged ahead , looking now at the cliffs of North Foreland , which looked within walking distance today , and now at some fishing-boats far out at sea . |