Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 2 | Unfortunately these conditions also much reduced their rate of march and they got only as far as Polmood , for they were now in the high uplands of the infant Tweed and the going difficult at the best of times . |
| 3 | Tree-living kangaroos got only as far as New Guinea . |
| 4 | Murray and Ramsay rode together as far as the ford at Sunlaws , a wooded terrain of bluffs and hillocks , another Heiton peel-tower and the riverside mill . |
| 5 | Once or twice they walked together as far as the river . |
| 6 | I left the broch and walked uphill as far as I could without disturbing the bird colony , then made my way towards the southern end of the island , where the land sloped gradually down to the sea in long , flat terraces of rock . |
| 7 | If she walked twice as far as she rode , how many kilometres did she ride ? |
| 8 | The king 's messenger caught up with him at Piacenza and they went together as far as Lyons . |
| 9 | All went well as far as Jersey , where the Met man proclaimed that thunderstorms to the south would shortly ground all light aircraft , pointing to the yellow and red swathe on his TV monitor . |
| 10 | Through the winter months , the larger firms gave further assurances that they were willing " to take immediate steps for the gradual reduction of female comps " ; some it seems went even so far as to dismiss women . |
| 11 | Perhaps few of the inhabitants went quite so far as the parents of Fly-Fornication Richardson of Waldron or Small-hope Biggs of Rye in their statements of religious principle , but a dominant number of the eastern rural and urban elite found their religious and political sympathies increasingly divorced from the fumbling attempts of the Stuarts to impose their image of the monarchy . |
| 12 | They gleamed not only about Mama 's neck but tumbled almost as far as her waist — and could seem all different colours . |
| 13 | The direct influence of the LLP extended only as far as the metropolitan boundary at Bethnal Green ; the West Ham Labour Party was autonomous . |
| 14 | The river — it stretched away as far as he could see in either direction , and could not therefore be a lake — was very wide . |
| 15 | After that the walk progressed splendidly as far as she was concerned . |