Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] far [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the critics mentioned so far kept their criticism within certain limits . |
| 2 | The cross-section data used so far gives us little indication about how many workers continue in employment long enough to recoup the wages that were deferred earlier in their career . |
| 3 | We were not gracious yesterday — especially as this child came so far to find us . |
| 4 | Apart from the orthodox account , all the theories examined so far have something in common . |
| 5 | She had n't imagined that this woman could be at all assertive , but she was being exactly that now , and Alain had so far said nothing at all . |
| 6 | He liked his guests to give value for money ; this wordless young fellow had so far given none . |
| 7 | Some of those who did not possess a faith in God which was proof against all adversities now saw that the great hope of a relief force reaching them , which had so far buoyed them up , was an illusory one ; even if a relief now came , in many different ways it would be too late and not only because so many of the garrison were already dead ; India itself was now a different place ; the fiction of happy natives being led forward along the road to civilization could no longer be sustained . |
| 8 | Only a bull seladang , the giant wild ox of Asia , had so far eluded them . |
| 9 | The Seychelles kestrel had so far eluded me , but I met an English birder while I was trying again to photograph waders in the harbour of Victoria , and he told me a pair had nested in one of the church towers in the town . |
| 10 | Here , gathered within its walls , were the enemies who had so far eluded his grasp : Count William of Angoulême and Vulgrin , Aimar of Limoges , the Viscount of Ventadour and the lord of Chabanais . |
| 11 | Bruckner was 39 and in the process of shaking the dust off a provincial career that had so far brought him distinction only as an organist and as a craftsman-composer of the old school . |
| 12 | ‘ Marriage will be the end of his talent , ’ Bonamy predicted , though I had not seen much talent in the poems Robin had so far shown me . |
| 13 | ‘ Alas that my lord of Gloucester had so far forgotten his duty ! ’ |
| 14 | On Aug. 16 Pérez de Cuéllar said that 40 countries had thus far notified him of sanctions measures , as they were required to do by Aug. 24 , and on Aug. 28 the committee on compliance heard that well over half of all UN member countries were committed to the embargo . |