Example sentences of "[adv] far [verb] [conj] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amiss thought of the indignities he had so far endured and surmounted ; this was a mere pin-prick . |
| 2 | Mr Paine , I feel sure , will be a candidate for some award or other and I trust he will remember the couple whose bravery obviously far exceeded that called for in the normal course of duty . |
| 3 | With Ole Larsen , a Finn , Colbeck reached the furthest south ( 78° 51 'S 50'W ) thus far achieved and reconnoitred a route to the Pole later followed by Roald Amundsen , who in 1912 after his triumph sent Colbeck a letter of thanks . |
| 4 | At the end of the first line ( colon ) when we pause momentarily for processing the sense so far , we make a provisional judgment on the completeness or otherwise , the self-sufficiency or open-endedness , of the sense-unit thus far read or heard . |
| 5 | It is easy enough to measure the volumes of lava flows , but it is only by constructing isopach maps that the volume of pyroclastic material erupted can be estimated , and this is particularly important in volcanoes at destructive plate margins , where the mass of magma represented by pyroclastic rocks sometimes far outweighs that represented by lavas . |