Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Boss says as far as he 's concerned a crêche is a motor accident in Kelvinside and any self respecting woman should have a good man to take care of her so its only pinmoney anyway and that 's bound to come out in the attitude . |
| 2 | They stuck up for my right to walk as far up mountains as the older children . |
| 3 | It 's not my job to get very far ; it 's yours . |
| 4 | ‘ Ever since my father got as far as the fourth fence when leading the field on Zimulator in L'Escargot 's year in 1975 , I have wanted to do well in the race , ’ he told me . |
| 5 | There has been much disagreement among palaeontologists whether this indicated hunting or scavenging , but Ruby told us that she and her kind stayed as far as possible away from these large animals , for the freshly expired bodies were invariably surrounded by hyenas and big cats . |
| 6 | What bothered Hazel , Dandelion and Hawkbit was the openness and strangeness of the down and their inability to see very far ahead . |
| 7 | Overseas suppliers will hold their prices to try and keep as much of their UK market as possible , manufacturers , distributors and retailers will be pressed to contain their price rises as far as possible , and to pass the belt tightening on to their employees . |
| 8 | Meanwhile her friend walked as far as the bike , then rode it to the point where he met Lorna , who then rode further while he walked … and so on . |
| 9 | Neither of her parents were church-goers and her father had so far lapsed from his native Catholicism as to despise and detest ‘ the whole primitive priestly caboodle ’ , as he called it . |
| 10 | It had taken all her strength to get this far in her life . |
| 11 | So long as Artai remained unmarried it was important to the self-esteem of each of them to demonstrate that while neither she nor her family had thus far been favoured with the Kha-Khan 's selection , yet she was capable of exercising influence . |
| 12 | From the heady acclaim of August 1944 , his popularity descended so far that his resignation provoked surprise but no emotion — a mere twenty-seven per cent of the French people said they wanted him back . |
| 13 | Most of these bars have live music , and all have staggered happy hours ( or is it happy stagger hour ? ! ) , so with a bit of forward planning we make sure your budget goes as far as possible . |
| 14 | Sometimes both came together : very few of our sample lived as far out of town as the mining village of Gilmerton , but one woman compositor who did was the daughter of a miner and in due course she married a miner herself . |