Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] far [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately these conditions also much reduced their rate of march and they got only as far as Polmood , for they were now in the high uplands of the infant Tweed and the going difficult at the best of times . |
| 2 | Tree-living kangaroos got only as far as New Guinea . |
| 3 | Ocean currents are important for other coastal plants such as some mangroves ( though none of these has reached the isolated archipelago of Hawaii ) , while seeds of the forest lianes , Entada ( Leguminosae ) , are washed even as far as Europe . |
| 4 | It gives a new and cruel twist to community care that people may have to be shipped perhaps as far as Birkenhead to find a community home . |
| 5 | In his grandfather 's time the City had stretched only as far as Ch'ung Ch'ing . |
| 6 | The king 's messenger caught up with him at Piacenza and they went together as far as Lyons . |
| 7 | The work started in northern Scotland and has progressed southwards as far as North Wales . |
| 8 | All went well as far as Jersey , where the Met man proclaimed that thunderstorms to the south would shortly ground all light aircraft , pointing to the yellow and red swathe on his TV monitor . |
| 9 | Few , however , go quite as far as Dickens , who is apt to bum great houses down . |
| 10 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |
| 11 | But Tilda had taught herself to produce , by widening her mouth into the shape of an oblong , a most unpleasant imitation of a bosun 's whistle , which could be heard almost as far as Lord Jim . |
| 12 | The school was divided into Upper and Lower boys , and the Lower boys in each house fagged for members of the Library : they cooked their tea , ran errands for them , being sent perhaps as far as Windsor to fetch a cake from Fuller 's teashop , and they had to come at once when someone in the Library shouted " Boy ! " , the last arrival being given the job . |
| 13 | We could travel together as far as Doha and I would go on alone to Abu Dhabi . |
| 14 | From the kick-off , Bordon forced a corner which was cleared only as far as Duffin who volleyed in from 15 yards . |
| 15 | We were going to travel together as far as Paris , I was to go on to Calais . |