Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] far [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I decided to walk as far as Bellanoch where a friend would pick me up for that weakening hospitality again - a dear old Sister Brush who shames me with her eighty-year-old energy , integrity and artistic confidence . |
| 2 | The Dean and Chapter had recently forbidden parking there and had won as far as cars were concerned , but the local inhabitants had always parked their bikes there and continued so to do . |
| 3 | The fact that IBM Corp has scheduled a board meeting for next Tuesday has analysts speculating like mad that the company may name its new chief executive after the meeting : the only name now being tossed about is that of Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc , who shot to favourite in the betting after USA Today reported that talks between IBM and Gerstner had gone as far as discussion of a compensation package . |
| 4 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 5 | Western Turkey and Sicily were initially affected , but by 1348 it had spread as far as Spain and Morocco . |
| 6 | The car remained crowded as far as Holborn and then the passengers thinned out . |