Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] far [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 2 | Murray and Ramsay rode together as far as the ford at Sunlaws , a wooded terrain of bluffs and hillocks , another Heiton peel-tower and the riverside mill . |
| 3 | Tendrils of Virginia creeper crept down as far as the window-frame , and progressed on little circular suckers across the glass , at huge vegetable speed . |
| 4 | They clattered on as far as the door ; under workbenches , into cracks , finding every obscure corner . |
| 5 | Once or twice they walked together as far as the river . |
| 6 | Acts to enable river navigations to be improved , necessary because the building of locks , new cuts or dredging often affected the interests of local landowners , farmers and especially millers , went back as far as the sixteenth century but were consolidated in a veritable spate of river improvement after the Restoration . |
| 7 | The first of these went back as far as the second half of the sixteenth century . |
| 8 | Perhaps few of the inhabitants went quite so far as the parents of Fly-Fornication Richardson of Waldron or Small-hope Biggs of Rye in their statements of religious principle , but a dominant number of the eastern rural and urban elite found their religious and political sympathies increasingly divorced from the fumbling attempts of the Stuarts to impose their image of the monarchy . |
| 9 | The direct influence of the LLP extended only as far as the metropolitan boundary at Bethnal Green ; the West Ham Labour Party was autonomous . |
| 10 | Last year , Derek sold some 1,500 from his farm — on Christmas Eve the queue stretched out as far as the main road . |