Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] far [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I had so far seen of Binbrook held no charms for me — it was bare , isolated , and I did n't really want to seek out yet another Met Office with another set of people to get to know , now that the war was over , and there was no reason that I could see for us to continue plotting charts and reading instruments . |
| 2 | Everything that I had so far learned about him — except the conflicting stories of his drinking habits — seemed diametrically opposed to the slick business morality of Ingard and his associates and to the way-out politics of his daughter 's husband . |
| 3 | In that case the solutions that I have so far given to the first equation would no longer be acceptable , but one could take x=1 , y=2 , and z=1 . |
| 4 | It emphasises that she is not the awful old termagant she has so far seemed to be . |
| 5 | Kind he might be , although it seemed improbable from what she had so far seen of him , but Sally-Anne wanted nothing from men , neither kindness … nor love … nor anything . |
| 6 | She had so far relented towards Betty that she did not wish to see her disappointed . |
| 7 | Jupiter is about 11 times the diameter and about 1300 times the volume of the Earth , and in its size and in many other respects is a very different world from the terrestrial planets that you have so far met in this book . |
| 8 | You have so far succeeded in preventing the closure of a small area of self-sealing partition . |
| 9 | To some extent , all that we have so far said about multimedia development is really a description of multimedia databases . |
| 10 | THE INHABITANTS of the planet Myrin have much to endure from Earthmen , inevitably , perhaps , since they represent the only intelligent life we have so far found in the galaxy . |
| 11 | We have so far talked about positive and negative charges , about point charges , and distributed charge . |
| 12 | It is important to note that none of the clauses we have so far dealt with have introduced a PAR construct ( SEQ , on the other hand , was introduced by ALT and CAR ) . |
| 13 | The way the long folds follow the lean of the body instead of falling vertically is a primitive touch ( offset by the charming observation of the skirt-edge caught on the lifted heel ) , but the treatment of the face seems to fix the work later than any we have so far looked at . |
| 14 | We have so far looked at divisions of income and wealth . |
| 15 | It was hardly surprising that this was the case , and it did n't stop me from giving interviews , but they seemed so far removed from what we were actually trying to do . |
| 16 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what response he has so far received on his White Paper about reform of local government . |
| 17 | Providing he retains control ( which he has so far succeeded in doing ) , he can play the media and not be affected by the media 's idiosyncrasy . |
| 18 | Although Mr Major has said he wants the debate over Scotland 's future to be extended , he has so far refused to be drawn on the need for a referendum . |
| 19 | It has so far overcome at the political level the doctrinal and organizational divisions between protestants . |
| 20 | That recognised , its achievement is answer enough to the question why , given the attributes claimed for it , the place it has so far established for itself in the economy is still no more than marginal . |
| 21 | Romantic dreams and sexual callisthenics , chivalry and rape , roses and semen , chocolate boxes and contraceptives … but most of all , never entirely out of his embattled mind , slowly dragged the shapes of the thousands of words he had so far composed on that day and the thousands he had yet to compose by candle light through the remainder of the bitterly cold night . |
| 22 | Absent also was Leofwine , who had taken Thorfinn for King as Cormac had , or so it seemed , on the glorious journey to and from Rome , and who had stood trembling as Cormac had on the steps of St Peter 's , one of a brotherhood that had seemed to promise a future none of them had so far dreamed of . |