Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [vb pp] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | I return to Summerchild , who has retreated as far as laughter will stretch and found nothing . |
| 2 | The reader who has survived so far may recall that during my wartime service in the Navy I had nursed a great curiosity about the enemy we rarely saw , and that I had promised myself that at some time in the future I would find out more about them , the ships they had fought in and the sort of people they were . |
| 3 | Sometimes insurers might feel that they can get a better deal at the doors of the court in a heavy case , and the identity of the judge allotted to that case can influence corridor negotiations pretty heavily , but an experienced plaintiff 's solicitor with nothing much to worry about in court who has gone that far will strike a fairly hard bargain . |
| 4 | Anyone who has got as far as saying this , has already thrown the first proposition overboard , because if it is ‘ the responsibility of management to do everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce prices ’ , then we would not need a commission to tell us that managements which raise prices are falling down on their responsibility . |
| 5 | Yet , even here , there is a puzzle , a strange , unplaceable something which does n't quite fit with that account of the gradual driving out of the reader and the suggestion of a steady shift towards the rare and the difficult , for I would guess that anyone not put off in advance by suspicion or hearsay , anyone that is who has got as far as dipping into Ulysses , say , will have come hard up against things that are startlingly , even discomfortingly , recognisable . |
| 6 | The sight of those slightly parted lips was almost my undoing but , with the hollow feeling of a gambler who has laid out far too much on a horse , I plunged the titbit firmly into her mouth before my resolve could falter . |
| 7 | The Workshop in Communicative Grammar bore the stamp of its energetic organizer , , who had gone so far as to postpone a Fulbright Fellowship to study with in Pennsylvania in order to bring the planned Workshop to fruition . |
| 8 | On their return to the beach , an hour 's flashing of torches was needed to catch the attention of the landing craft crews who had withdrawn too far from the beach according to one report . |
| 9 | He advanced on Nick who had retreated as far as he could . |
| 10 | Of the forty of us who had survived so far , another twelve were weeded out and the rest of us sat there until 6.00 pm looking at the posters on the walls and reading the few tattered paperbacks which sat on the shelves . |
| 11 | Meanwhile in the overcrowded , squalid base hospitals , those who had survived so far were dying like flies , their beds immediately refilled . |
| 12 | Those who had carried on far enough reached South America , which much later became cut off when the seas rose across the isthmus of Panama . |
| 13 | The thought made his jaw tighten and his hands curl and harden into fists that might smash the unknown male faces of those who had dared so far ! |
| 14 | People were flocking round each paper , jostling and craning to see what it said and who had signed so far . |
| 15 | Those who have escaped so far wait nervously , fearing the worst . |
| 16 | Murton , among the favourites for the championship , will look for a win against Easington who have struggled so far without the influential batting of John Glendenen . |
| 17 | Adventurers who have got this far deserve some hefty magical rewards for their efforts , especially if they have overcome the Great Enchanter himself . |
| 18 | The number of ethnic Germans who have arrived so far this year is put at 260,000 . |
| 19 | At present the authorities in Berlin are having difficulty coping with those who have arrived so far , though no more than 1,100 or so have come in the past few days . |
| 20 | Our Friday debates tend to be of rather higher quality than some of our midweek debates and all hon. Members who have spoken so far — and , I am sure , those who will follow me — have spoken to a high standard and have contributed to a serious debate on this important issue . |
| 21 | I agree with all the right hon. and hon. Members who said — I think that almost all who have spoken so far made this point — that it is very important to give Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland the prospect of joining the Community at least by the end of the decade , and to give them every possible assistance in meeting the economic and political conditions for membership as soon as possible . |