Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ira Dilworth applauded the idea and gave me an official ‘ To Whom It May Concern ’ letter of introduction , which opened a number of official doors , got me as far as Edmonton , and served as an invaluable introduction to some high ranking officers of the R.C.A.F. |
| 2 | They drove us as far as the mud roads would allow in the royal land-rover , and down to the bay where a pearl-oyster hatchery was being tried for the first time ; and at night there were more festivities , and endless delectable maidens vying for our attentions … |
| 3 | I watched him as far as the corner of the curator 's garden , and saw him turn in alongside the hedge . |
| 4 | He had told her the story , and reassured her as far as he was able . |
| 5 | Isabel 's shaking legs got her as far as the bench before she collapsed . |
| 6 | His cajoling got him as far as the first landing , but then his legs all but gave out , and thereafter he had to climb using his one good arm to haul him onwards . |
| 7 | He was not a tall man and was soon almost dwarfed by his five lively , wryly humorous sons , who avoided him as far as possible and could not leave home soon enough . |
| 8 | He brought me as far as your gate , which was decent of him — and then bolted as if the bears were after him . |
| 9 | The two Longner men who rode one on either side their borrowed minstrel brought him as far as the gatehouse , waiting in silence as he dismounted . |
| 10 | Her father 's work took him at least as far as Shalstone , Buckinghamshire , and her own work took her as far as Edgcote on the Oxfordshire border . |
| 11 | He made no attempt to detain her , but walked with her down the dark drive and took her as far as her own front door . |
| 12 | It made a high arc , vanishing against the sun as she flung it as far as she could . |
| 13 | Gravellier made it as far as the door . |
| 14 | Sturt , who would have been able to take a much faster and direct route , only made it as far as the western approaches to the bend , and was so hard-pressed by lack of water that he had to bleed a horse to survive . |
| 15 | Of the twenty States listed in the Table , thirteen are parties to the more recent Hague Convention of 1965 which does not involve the abrogation of the earlier bilateral Conventions but has in practice superseded them so far as the United Kingdom is concerned . |
| 16 | His momentum carried him as far as the launcher and with out-thrust foot he sent it keeling over on to its side . |
| 17 | He pushed me as far as the trees and I seized a trailing branch . |
| 18 | Do tell me all about it ! ’ she begged ; and Breeze enlightened her as far as she could , without referring to the business of the wallet . |
| 19 | ‘ The problem with casting myself as the male version of Calypso is that I doubt if Ulysses trusted her as far as he could throw her . ’ |