Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [adv] far [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while on the subject of confessing ignorance , I must also state that I have so far made it through life without witnessing or participating in an Orange Walk . |
| 2 | It is the only card he has left in a game which has so far seen her win every hand . |
| 3 | For months , British diplomats have been wondering what to do with this thoroughbred stallion , an official present to the Prime Minister which has so far caused him nothing but embarrassment . |
| 4 | This is a distinctly unromantic sounding but buoyant group which has so far twirled its way round to records . |
| 5 | This could be the year Nigel Mansell finally overcomes his great rival Ayrton Senna and clinches the world motor racing championship which has so far eluded him . |
| 6 | That 's what Mansell does — not merely racing , but striving for the supreme prize which has so far eluded him . |
| 7 | For the British driver , it would be just one more step towards the world title which has so far eluded him . |
| 8 | Some of those who did not possess a faith in God which was proof against all adversities now saw that the great hope of a relief force reaching them , which had so far buoyed them up , was an illusory one ; even if a relief now came , in many different ways it would be too late and not only because so many of the garrison were already dead ; India itself was now a different place ; the fiction of happy natives being led forward along the road to civilization could no longer be sustained . |
| 9 | Though you journey so far to see their ancient endeavours . |
| 10 | Here , gathered within its walls , were the enemies who had so far eluded his grasp : Count William of Angoulême and Vulgrin , Aimar of Limoges , the Viscount of Ventadour and the lord of Chabanais . |
| 11 | Although we conduct our interview in an air-conditioned hole at Paul Merton 's spiritual home , Channel 4 , drinking tea from unwieldy tureens , it is the ever-dependable Beeb who have thus far harnessed his slippery talents most deftly . |
| 12 | We have so far limited our interpretation of " style " and " stylistics " to match the kind of activity in which we wish to engage : the study of language as used in literary texts , with the aim of relating it to its artistic functions . |
| 13 | This need for the father probably goes back to an earlier stage of childhood than the phallic-Oedipal one to which we have so far confined our attention . |
| 14 | But if he winds up running his film company the way he has so far run his restaurant , he may find himself forced to serve up more and more celluloid ham just to keep things afloat . |
| 15 | He has so far shown himself incapable of a knockout punch witness his feeble reply in the Commons yesterday to the onslaughts from his former Chancellor and from Labour leader John Smith . |
| 16 | What has so far prevented them from becoming assimilated to each other is not only the fact that in the field of psychotherapy , differing theories do not readily and happily intermix , but that each theory tends to take sides ( without this necessarily being apparent ) in the eternal dialogue between youth and age . |