Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would seem sensible , therefore , to try and avoid using them as far as possible . |
| 2 | Ira Dilworth applauded the idea and gave me an official ‘ To Whom It May Concern ’ letter of introduction , which opened a number of official doors , got me as far as Edmonton , and served as an invaluable introduction to some high ranking officers of the R.C.A.F. |
| 3 | I put one foot on his shoulder and as I climbed up , making room for him , he raised himself and finally stood on the platform , helping me as far as possible . |
| 4 | It er I I mean I as far as I 'm concerned it 's er extremely difficult to get people to er come to social events . |
| 5 | ‘ Personally , I would n't trust you as far as I could proverbially throw you ! |
| 6 | If you did , the police would get involved , and that 's the last thin– anyone wants 'cause the pimps terrify you as far as the police are concerned . |
| 7 | Both groups have an interest in maintaining the capitalist system , but the professional-managerial class have an interest in maximizing its own independence or autonomy ; the ruling class , on the other hand , try to restrict it as far as possible . |
| 8 | Government legislation has sharply reduced the scope for this , but a number of councils are still interested in developing it as far as they can . |
| 9 | So far from abandoning our folly , we started pushing it as far as it would go . |
| 10 | I suppose she just hoped that news of her disappearance had n't made it as far as the Glasgow papers . ’ |
| 11 | They drove us as far as the mud roads would allow in the royal land-rover , and down to the bay where a pearl-oyster hatchery was being tried for the first time ; and at night there were more festivities , and endless delectable maidens vying for our attentions … |
| 12 | As we sat down to the first of many repetitive meals of salted fish and ground corn , I broached the question of finding a prahu which might carry us as far as Aru . |
| 13 | If time permits , we would be happy to accommodate you as far as we can . |
| 14 | Alfieri watched out for his clients and tried to help them as far as his job would allow . |
| 15 | She exacerbates all his old anxieties and feelings of ambivalence towards ‘ mothers ’ , and because he can not cope , he defends himself by ignoring her as far as possible . |
| 16 | The absurd thoughts had got her as far as the foot of that horrible stairway , then she had felt the level floor of another passage beneath her feet . |
| 17 | He made good speed down to the river , and then there was a path to aid him as far as the mill . |
| 18 | Fate had got him as far as a leading Sheffield estate agents , Blundells . |
| 19 | Orphaned at a very early age , he is brought up ‘ by hand ’ by his shrewish sister , Mrs Joe , the wife of the village blacksmith , Joe Gargery , who loves him and protects him as far as possible from his sister 's tyranny . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Take a line from the longer axis of the Southern Cross and extend it as far as Achernar ; the south pole lies about midway along it . |
| 22 | A young child faced with a row of cups and a pile of saucers might have no other way of finding whether he has enough saucers to put with the cups than to match them as far as possible , one-to-one . |
| 23 | It also demonstrates that the findings of research support a coherent policy to identify family needs at times of stress and develop services and good practice to match them as far as possible . |
| 24 | I watched him as far as the corner of the curator 's garden , and saw him turn in alongside the hedge . |
| 25 | The fact that this revelation would doubtless be made in a context of privacy and confidentiality so as to insulate him as far as possible from the prying eyes of scandalmongers may not reduce his desire to put actual and legal distance between himself and his spouse . |
| 26 | He had told her the story , and reassured her as far as he was able . |
| 27 | I belonged to them in the sense that when I was interested in something I tried to understand it as far as possible and , of course , even tried to make use of it . |
| 28 | ‘ I have no future but my children and my wife will take it as far as it goes . |
| 29 | They fully considered that there was merit , great merit , in running it as far as the Council was concerned . |
| 30 | Isabel 's shaking legs got her as far as the bench before she collapsed . |