Example sentences of "he have [adv] far [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what response he has so far received on his White Paper about reform of local government . |
| 2 | Once a child has survived his vulnerable first five years , his expectation of life naturally increases , but this increase will vary in direct proportion to the dangers which he has so far evaded : thus the United Kingdom 5 year old can now expect to live until he is 75 , the American until he is 72 . |
| 3 | The advent of Andy Reed belatedly persuaded the selectors to move Doddie Weir to No8 where , between the great-hearted , combative Turnbull and an Iain Morrison now reproducing his best London Scottish form , he has so far done splendidly as an embryonic Mervyn Davies or Murray Mexted . |
| 4 | Despite the stigma and stress associated with a court case that threatened him with jail , he has so far managed to score 17 goals for Brentford in the First Division this season . |
| 5 | Providing he retains control ( which he has so far succeeded in doing ) , he can play the media and not be affected by the media 's idiosyncrasy . |
| 6 | In chapter nine of The Form Rolle uses this Jesus prayer to recapitulate the whole progress in love he has so far described — it becomes as it were the tool which shapes and conveys his understanding of redemption : The prose is orchestrated to a climax . |
| 7 | But if he winds up running his film company the way he has so far run his restaurant , he may find himself forced to serve up more and more celluloid ham just to keep things afloat . |
| 8 | He has so far helped some 15 people on their way . |
| 9 | Although Mr Major has said he wants the debate over Scotland 's future to be extended , he has so far refused to be drawn on the need for a referendum . |
| 10 | He has so far refused to indicate whether he intends to appeal . |
| 11 | He uses the same methods as with the other five people he has so far deceived , his ‘ outward action ’ being the opposite of the ‘ native act and figure ’ of his heart , but he carries the principle of inversion much further . |
| 12 | Although the resolution appeals to the UN Secretary General , Javier Perez de Cuellar , to ‘ encourage and facilitate ’ a comprehensive political settlement on the basis of the Geneva Accords ( which his Special Representative , Diego Cordovez , negotiated to cover the withdrawal of the Soviet army in January ) , he has so far hesitated to begin a new round of peace talks between the warring Afghan parties . |
| 13 | Although her twenty-six-year-old boyfriend has an income from his job managing a shop , he has so far taken little interest and no responsibility for her or the baby . |
| 14 | He has so far shown himself incapable of a knockout punch witness his feeble reply in the Commons yesterday to the onslaughts from his former Chancellor and from Labour leader John Smith . |
| 15 | It leaves manager Lawrie McMenemy with just 16 players but he has so far resisted calling anybody off the standby list . |
| 16 | And yet , in spite of all his efforts and ingenuity , of huge expenditures of labour and money , he has so far failed to exterminate a single insect species . |
| 17 | The noise of the van receded and Forester expected its place to be taken by the measured squeak and clank of the old machine , a sound that he 'd so far heard only through still air at a distance . |
| 18 | Romantic dreams and sexual callisthenics , chivalry and rape , roses and semen , chocolate boxes and contraceptives … but most of all , never entirely out of his embattled mind , slowly dragged the shapes of the thousands of words he had so far composed on that day and the thousands he had yet to compose by candle light through the remainder of the bitterly cold night . |
| 19 | They chose Ian Botham , their young hero — he was then twenty-four — who had already performed great deeds in the twenty-five Tests he had so far played . |
| 20 | But then he remembered he had so far made little public display of his temporary teacher from Portlington . |
| 21 | She nodded and then , as steadily as she had accepted everything he had so far said , ‘ Colonel Moore will want to write his letters , of course . |
| 22 | Amiss thought of the indignities he had so far endured and surmounted ; this was a mere pin-prick . |
| 23 | Besides , as Minter was in the process of admitting , he had so far assembled not a shred of evidence to support his claim . |
| 24 | The only thing he had so far managed to wreck was the Wilson family 's CD player . |