Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel 's shaking legs got her as far as the bench before she collapsed . |
| 2 | His cajoling got him as far as the first landing , but then his legs all but gave out , and thereafter he had to climb using his one good arm to haul him onwards . |
| 3 | Of the twenty States listed in the Table , thirteen are parties to the more recent Hague Convention of 1965 which does not involve the abrogation of the earlier bilateral Conventions but has in practice superseded them so far as the United Kingdom is concerned . |
| 4 | His momentum carried him as far as the launcher and with out-thrust foot he sent it keeling over on to its side . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Gravellier made it as far as the door . |
| 8 | The two Longner men who rode one on either side their borrowed minstrel brought him as far as the gatehouse , waiting in silence as he dismounted . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |