Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] [adv] far [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was only young then , about thirty , and he did not have so far to fall . |
| 2 | Pebbles had not come this far to capitulate now , and at the wire she was a long-looking neck to the good . |
| 3 | It does not go so far to ensure proportionality as other variants , but would involve the least departure from the existing system , would retain single-member constituencies which many regard as being a valuable feature of the present system , and would be much the simplest to understand in operation . |
| 4 | Well , it 'll perhaps improve when he does n't have so far to go wo n't it |
| 5 | Meanwhile health campaigns have largely failed so far to change behaviour . |
| 6 | But they have signally failed so far to build an intellectual constituency in wider circles of the kind that gave Thatcherism — which had little intellectual depth of its own — the basis on which to construct a new kind of politics . |