Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] as far [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got a few laughs and the local press gave me a good write-up , and the church warden came to me and he said to me ‘ Frank , you should be an actor , ’ and I thought God had spoken because in those days , he was representing God as far as I was concerned … . |
| 2 | ‘ Beineix dares much , pushing farce as far as it will go while simultaneously building the momentum that catapults the film into its tragic destination . |
| 3 | Newman had spent three days at the hotel in Walberswick — mainly to attend the inquest but also to soothe Evelyn as far as he could . |
| 4 | Darwin 's concept of evolution may hold water as far as it goes , but without the inclusion of an omnipotent ‘ Master Mind ’ , working from outside to plan the possibility of purposeful development , it makes no sense to me at all . |
| 5 | When he asked , then , ‘ What has Ingeld to do with Christ ? ’ , he was using Ingeld as an example of the most extreme gap between good ‘ heroic ’ behaviour and good Christian behaviour ; Ingeld took unforgivingness as far as it could go . |
| 6 | Then she turned to Xanthe whom she could avoid kissing , to keep her unbathed body away from the young girl 's groomed presence as far as she was able without coldness . |
| 7 | This is fine so far as it goes , but even Marxist approaches have not always taken things as far as they should go . |
| 8 | It would mean that it may be diffcult to do any Tony bashing , but I 'm sure all the praise will by far exceed criticism as far as he is concerned for years to come . |