Example sentences of "[pron] be [prep] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I walked up to him and I was about this far away yeah ? |
| 2 | Raising the sums which will be required in the name of global environmental security during the next 50–60 years ( which is about as far as anyone can reasonably try to foresee ) will create severe political and economic stresses . |
| 3 | She took a step backwards , which was about as far as she could go in that hallway . |
| 4 | So you are about as far away from absolute egalitarianism as you can get , you are actually enshrining |
| 5 | the Palladium — a cheap trick to try and convince the punters that they were in somewhere far classier than was really the case . |
| 6 | He 's in too far now . |
| 7 | if these young men possessed traces of the Beastblood , it was from so far back that it could not be measured , and it was so slight that it could no longer hold the power to call upon the beasts for aid . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , at the time — ’ he stopped , embarrassed , but saw he was in too far — ‘ I thought she might have … have made it up . |