Example sentences of "so far [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm so far up the creek myself that when they throw the book at me it 'll be the whole library .
2 ‘ She is now so far up the beach and has suffered so much damage that it would be physically impossible to get her off , ’ said Orkney 's Marine Pollution Officer , Captain Bob Sclater .
3 If I were to tell you that this record puts a dayglo platform DM so far up the mule 's rectum that its entrails squish through its clenched teeth , I do n't think that I could be justly accused of exaggeration .
4 A little transistor with a tin spike for an aerial was useless so far up the valley .
5 He considered buying a cake to eat , but while he was thinking about it he kept on walking , and thought it would look stupid to turn back so far up the street , so he did n't , though at the thought his stomach suddenly rumbled .
6 Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year .
7 But as it was I travelled only so far down the ramp and stuck there with my head and shoulders protruding into the street .
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