Example sentences of "so far [conj] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | slip through the net so far but they 've got to be done . |
| 2 | thought to myself , yes in a sense I could of done with that so far but I thought , no , I 'll stick up and |
| 3 | Jane for two years she 's enjoyed the course so far but she thinks |
| 4 | Some of those who had absconded , and some women who were brought before the Board , were taken to the magistrate 's and on the Sunday evening after Christmas the house was in a very disturbed state so far that we did not think it prudent to assemble for Divine Worship . ’ |
| 5 | One or two stretch the notion of individual guilt so far that they embark on self-mutilation . |
| 6 | His arms were raised above his head but not raised so far that he showed any fear either . |
| 7 | Some extreme theorists , such as Eric Midwinter , carried such arguments so far that he held it wrong to enter children from deprived backgrounds for any kind of examinations , since they were bound to fail . |
| 8 | You must never allow yourself to be crowded out , neither must you retreat so far that you overstep the area boundary . |
| 9 | The trick is to push a dispute just far enough to make your opponent cave in for fear of a court action , but not so far that it goes to court . |
| 10 | In January 1949 the British cabinet ruled that co-operation with Europe should not be taken so far that it compromised Britain 's ability to survive as an independent state . |
| 11 | He hit a huge drive which rolled so far that it ended in deep rough . |
| 12 | The compression of the state pension down to income support levels has gone so far that it has superseded the income support level , so that every pensioner , as of right , should be on income support . |
| 13 | He 's also been careful to work er with the United Nations who have done er much better so far than they have in er some crises in the past . |
| 14 | However — ’ he shrugged ‘ — my vet in Westmead ca n't be expected to come out so far so I 've obviously got to find one for this shop . ’ |
| 15 | William says that he wants to win and then hopefully look towards the world championship and then the next Europeans … it 's been a good year so far so he hopes it ends like that anyway |
| 16 | Byrne , 31 , whose goals have contributed to victories over Port Vale , Oxford , West Ham and Chelsea along the Wembley road , enjoyed his biggest celebration so far when he stooped to head home from close range at the end of the most incisive move of a tight match . |
| 17 | The hearing began on 29 June at which time , so far as we knew , W. 's condition was stable or deteriorating only slowly , although there had been some further loss of weight . |
| 18 | Just in so far as we cause the Government to persecute those who believe in peace , so we may be doing the greatest service … to stimulate the national consciousness in [ the ] direction [ of peace ] . ’ |
| 19 | With Paula Grey , so far as we know . |
| 20 | So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change . |
| 21 | It is interesting to note that there have , so far as we know , only been thirty-one phyla in all of pre-history ; nine have become totally extinct . |
| 22 | So far as we know they had met only in 1079 , when Eadmer was one of the young monks to whom Anselm talked during his first visit to Canterbury . |
| 23 | The temple at Knossos was , so far as we know , the most ambitious building the Minoans attempted . |
| 24 | At the end of the last war he found himself some French creature and went to live with her , and so far as we know , he 's still in France . ’ |
| 25 | So far as we know , Ptolemy spent his whole life in Alexandria , which is well north of the Earth 's equator , so that he could not see the stars of the far south . |
| 26 | True he was not , so far as we know , misogynist : there is evidence to the contrary . |
| 27 | He did not , so far as we know , see the necessity for structural change to remedy the oppression that women were under . |
| 28 | He was the first person , so far as we know , to record the fact that the tentacles of the common sundew are capable of movement . |
| 29 | Only 225 boys were interviewed and their results , while interesting ( and , so far as we know , possibly unique ) , will be mentioned only briefly . |
| 30 | ‘ So far as we know . ’ |