Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] far [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's also been careful to work er with the United Nations who have done er much better so far than they have in er some crises in the past . |
| 2 | Our sense of adventure only went so far and we relied on them to make the decisions . |
| 3 | The sparrow was n't too badly injured as far as I could tell , but it was obviously in a state of shock and could n't fly . |
| 4 | If my readers still doubt this let them consider the situation as we find it among societies which have not advanced as far as we have , for instance , among the aborigines of Central Australia . |
| 5 | No he 's not saying that , he 's not going that far because he 's not talking about all religions . |
| 6 | Women are faced with making a choice between the needs of their children and their own needs , and that is one of the things which , because they 've put the needs of their children , the needs of their dependents , ahead of their own needs , they themselves and the needs of women have not got as far as they could . |
| 7 | His arms were raised above his head but not raised so far that he showed any fear either . |
| 8 | My Lords for reasons that have already been explained to Your Lordships and which I will not pursue yet for , er it seems that everybody 's agreed that it is important that the erm local authority representatives should be in the majority and I have to admit that my amendments do not go that far because I was concentrating on getting the magistrates back where they ought to be , er but er that is one thing , the other is that it er was an interesting point that er the Noble Lord , Lord of Greenwich raised , that my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw er at columns four eighty and four eight one er questioned whether it was indeed appropriate that er the Home Secretary should make these appointments . |
| 9 | Lévi-Strauss has rendered social anthropology an invaluable service in emphasizing the significance of such contrasting motifs ; although we need not go so far as him and turn our subject into an esoteric animal , vegetable or mineral parlour-game in which every card is a joker and can assume whatever meaning the player likes . |
| 10 | However the government has not gone as far as it might have . |
| 11 | As the PAL:YPE recalls , this impression was based on a combination of physical environment , staff vision , and an existing commitment to an infrastructure including a permanent part-time library assistant : School A I was impressed with , because they too had already started to talk about resource-based learning and they already had as far as I remember … ( now my memory is fairly vague now because it is quite a long time ago ) … but as far as I remember they had a Headmaster , who was extremely interested , very keen indeed , and they had a committee already set up , I think to look into this . |
| 12 | will always support as far as it is possible to do so . |
| 13 | The keys to the Cathedral were widely distributed as far as I can make out . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And there are some boys who are just out to go as far as they can with a girl and get rid of her after a couple of days . |
| 15 | The reasons most women offer for extramarital sex — boredom and a need for drama and excitement — ring fairly hollow as far as I am concerned . |
| 16 | He does n't exist as far as I 'm concerned . ’ |
| 17 | But it does n't matter as far as we 're concerned because one side of Katrina is just as bright as the other side . |
| 18 | I mean , we have n't done so far but we , that 's what but , this is stuff we got about hundred |
| 19 | But they also dislike those who were born into the same station in life , or further down , and who have n't risen as far as they have . |
| 20 | The ceremony of innocence was well drowned as far as they were concerned . |
| 21 | They had n't walked very far when they came to a tiny dirt track off the road . |
| 22 | We had n't gone as far as we would have liked , and it was touch and go until the very last moment , but we just squeezed past the point between Tanakeke island and the mainland . |
| 23 | We had n't gone very far when we met up with another Lancaster returning from a Cook 's Tour , and to my horror the two aircraft then flew wing-tip to wing-tip all the way home . |
| 24 | But that does n't go very far unless you also examine the structural influences which shape personal behaviour . |
| 25 | We 're both disabled : my wife is almost completely unable to walk , and I ca n't go very far because I 've recently lost half a lung |
| 26 | And er really er they themselves thought exactly the same like , but they were talking about other people telling them you know that they could n't get this far but they did . |
| 27 | She lowered her lashes , said bitterly , ‘ I — I 've never gone as far as I did last night with you ! ’ |