Example sentences of "[verb] her [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He had told her the story , and reassured her as far as he was able . |
| 4 | Isabel 's shaking legs got her as far as the bench before she collapsed . |
| 5 | Her father 's work took him at least as far as Shalstone , Buckinghamshire , and her own work took her as far as Edgcote on the Oxfordshire border . |
| 6 | He made no attempt to detain her , but walked with her down the dark drive and took her as far as her own front door . |
| 7 | Do tell me all about it ! ’ she begged ; and Breeze enlightened her as far as she could , without referring to the business of the wallet . |
| 8 | ‘ The problem with casting myself as the male version of Calypso is that I doubt if Ulysses trusted her as far as he could throw her . ’ |