Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] far as [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ministers of the Crown will no longer be responsible for the internal workings of such organisations , accept in so far as they fulfil their contractual obligations . |
| 2 | Take three deep breaths , breathing in as far as you can but without straining . |
| 3 | Make sure that the pattern is straight and gently feed it down as far as it will go . |
| 4 | Like someone pulling a blanket over his head and defying nature to do its worst , he sank and pushed himself down as far as he could go . |
| 5 | You have to get right down as far as you can . |
| 6 | Alice fulfilled the orders , then sat down as far as she could from Alfred who had just arrived . |
| 7 | ‘ Torquay 's interest is over as far as we are concerned . ’ |
| 8 | Gazzer leaned over as far as he dared and gave her a hand , holding on to her arm while she helped Simon to hoist himself up . |
| 9 | She pulled over as far as she could into the bushes at the side of the lane and slowed down while the car , a beaten-up old Ford , passed . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , ’ she told him , leaning over as far as she could towards him . |
| 11 | So although consumers may on average be better off so far as their spending power is concerned , they may be worse off overall when environmental factors are taken into account . |
| 12 | As for his arm , she decided , it could just fester and drop off as far as she was concerned . |
| 13 | He wanted to run his fingers up as far as they would go , but he remained motionless , like a frozen frame in a black and white film . |
| 14 | ‘ Umm , I just turn my guitar up as far as it will go , ’ explains the puzzled axe hero . |
| 15 | I find a track leading off the road into a stand of trees ; I take the car up as far as it will go , then turn the lights out . |
| 16 | ‘ No officers coughin' up as far as I can see , ’ said Tommy . |
| 17 | He appeared totally oblivious of her presence and did n't even look up as far as she was aware . |
| 18 | Raise the eyebrows , forcing them up as far as you can as if trying to make them meet your hair line . |
| 19 | As you go through these , try to aim for clarity and smoothness , not just speed ( and if you have a 21-fret guitar , obviously only play up as far as you can go ! ) . |
| 20 | Jack crept up as far as he dared and then froze . |
| 21 | Let's have a look at this year 's price list er it says nineteen ninety three but I say it 's carried on as far as we know er there are n't any at the moment increases . |
| 22 | And the county do n't send us copy letters , so , chair it does need sorting out as far as we 're concerned as well . |
| 23 | Pull the drawer out as far as you can . |
| 24 | At first , as he worked , he had reminisced pleasantly to himself about the smells and the texture of paper and ink , and about the pleasure of opening a new roll of papyrus , laid out as far as there was need on soft leather spread over a wooden writing desk ; then mixing the ink powder with water , and the nervous moment of dipping the brush to make the first signs — to load the brush just so , in order that the ink would be absorbed by the paper before it could run down it . |
| 25 | The curtains were drawn back as far as they would go , and whenever she looked up the green-brown panorama confronted her and the pale bowl of sky . |
| 26 | Any interior door , even exterior doors we push them back as far as they possibly would go . |
| 27 | Director of education Ian Reid said : ‘ We have amalgamated and closed schools and cut administration back as far as we dare although we need more staff to implement all the changes . |
| 28 | He never hit a bad shot off the tee ; it just did n't come back as far as he thought it would . |
| 29 | The man , who had winched his seat back as far as it would go , lay beside her , staring up through the sunroof at the sky which was now a pure and empty blue . |
| 30 | His chair was tilted back as far as it would go . |