Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.

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1 After the initial impetus has run out , he wrote , and before one has got in so far that it is easier to finish than to go back , it is then that it becomes hard to be sure of your footing , hard to know why you are doing what you are doing , hard to know if you are doing correctly what you are doing .
2 Er it ought not to have done in so far that er we were we were we were we were moving , we were going forward to take up positions on er on the river , er and this was being done on the understanding that er a certain bridge had been destroyed , er and it had n't been destroyed er and they were and they were they were already across you see .
3 He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application .
4 Almost £9,000 in donations have come in so far and Lynda hopes that when charitable status is granted to the Tabor Trust , more people will be encouraged to help .
5 Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get .
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