Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edgar managed to get as far as the door . |
| 2 | By Lancaster Road standards , the Ryans had gone too far up in the world , making them aliens . |
| 3 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 4 | Of our ship 's company , only Tooth and Tasman had ventured as far east as this , and the waters ahead were equally unknown to all of us . |
| 5 | Severus managed to get as far as the Montrose region and perhaps briefly beyond that : tantalizingly , in 1869 labourers on the Duke of Sutherland 's railway extension to Helmsdale and ultimately to Thurso in distant Caithness unearthed a collection of Roman bronze coins in a region never held and supposedly never reached by imperial forces . |
| 6 | In Classical antiquity there were connections between Europe and India even before the conquests of Alexander had extended as far as the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent . |
| 7 | Now Malekith had gone too far . |
| 8 | Donald McLaggan had gone too far with Flora Stewart , swinging so wildly that the girl flung against the smaller table and fell onto it with her hair in the great bowl of broth . |
| 9 | Fred had gone too far , had widened the discourse unfairly . |
| 10 | In the three weeks since , Theda had tried as far as possible to keep her so . |
| 11 | By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes . |
| 12 | What lay behind Eadwine 's assault on the kingdom of Gwynedd is never made clear , but Aethelfrith had campaigned as far afield as Chester against the men of Powys and the Anglian attack on the north Britons was a continuing process . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So Davout had got that far . |
| 15 | But Harding was rallying his faculties fast ; I was certain Lawrence had gone too far this time . |
| 16 | She felt that Maggie Gibbs had gone too far . |
| 17 | When Newton had progressed that far in the programme , following a path that had presented itself as more or less necessary from the outset , he began to be concerned about the match between his theory and observation . |
| 18 | Indeed , Francis Crick had gone so far as to suggest , at least half seriously , that all work in molecular biology and biochemistry on anything else should stop until E. coli was ‘ solved ’ — whatever might be meant by such a solution . |
| 19 | S. Kettering had gone too far . |
| 20 | But Joyce had come too far in his pilgrimage to turn back . |
| 21 | His father , who once appeared in the Evening Standard as Spurs ' Number One fan , did not consider such suspicious activities as sport , so one day when he was 17 Kasmin decided to get as far away from home as possible , and fled to New Zealand . |
| 22 | After praying together , Duff had got as far as the door , when the old man whispered his name . |
| 23 | Louise had gone so far as to allow him access to her papers and portfolio : he and Simon Scher were working on them now . |