Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] far as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sylvia Pedder sometimes has to go as far as Cumbria to see her relatives . |
| 2 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 3 | On the same day , the mascaret , a river-bore which had been known to reach as far as Paris , was sweeping up the Seine . |
| 4 | I decided to walk as far as Bellanoch where a friend would pick me up for that weakening hospitality again - a dear old Sister Brush who shames me with her eighty-year-old energy , integrity and artistic confidence . |
| 5 | We 'd only have to walk as far as Bingley . |
| 6 | But they did manage to get as far as Wales , where the foothills of Snowdonia passed for the Karakoram mountains . |