Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | These may stem from hormonal changes in the woman , from social pressures , from changes in marital or parental role , from career considerations ( especially in the man , who may realise that , at this stage of life , he has gone as far as he is likely to go ) and/or from other causes . |
| 32 | Unable to find work after leaving the army , which he joined at 16 , he has travelled as far as Holland in search of a job — but to no avail . |
| 33 | In reaching 24 processor configurations , Pyramid says it has gone as far as it can with the R3000 . |
| 34 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 35 | Western Turkey and Sicily were initially affected , but by 1348 it had spread as far as Spain and Morocco . |
| 36 | That afternoon he saw the King , who tried to dissuade him , but , as lying George V recorded it : ‘ He assured me that it was absolutely necessary for him to appeal to the Country as he had gone so far that it was not possible for him to change his mind . ’ ’ |
| 37 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 38 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 39 | She asked whether he had gone as far as the well-pit and the El-ahrairah of Laburnum . |
| 40 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 41 | Hunt meant that no matter how well he now did , Niki had to do considerably less well than he had done so far if he , James , was going to have any chance to catch him . |
| 42 | He had got as far as the packaging and labelling them at his premises prior to taking them to the ship . |
| 43 | Perhaps he was looking for a drink by the time he had climbed as far as the Piazza where three renaissance palaces , a town hall and cathedral confront each other across an open space of such lively dignity and harmony as to make the lack of tourist cafes completely forgivable . |