Example sentences of "[adv] far as [noun prp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked out as far as Scheveningen to draw the fisherwomen there . |
| 2 | The school was divided into Upper and Lower boys , and the Lower boys in each house fagged for members of the Library : they cooked their tea , ran errands for them , being sent perhaps as far as Windsor to fetch a cake from Fuller 's teashop , and they had to come at once when someone in the Library shouted " Boy ! " , the last arrival being given the job . |
| 3 | Sylvia Pedder sometimes has to go as far as Cumbria to see her relatives . |
| 4 | It gives a new and cruel twist to community care that people may have to be shipped perhaps as far as Birkenhead to find a community home . |
| 5 | PRODUCTION workers making toothpaste tubes in Kentucky have been travelling as far as Switzerland to keep abreast of new technology . |