Example sentences of "[vb past] far [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raw flint from the mines as well as finished artefacts were analysed , mainly hoards of flint axeheads found far from the mines , and there were some unexpected results ( fig. 6.5 ) . |
| 2 | His mind and spirit wandered far from the crowd of contemporary detail . |
| 3 | There they took a different path from the High Elves and wandered far from the mainstream of Elf culture , declaring themselves independent of the Phoenix Throne . |
| 4 | She seemed to find it difficult to make friends , and the fact that she hardly ever wandered far from the house only added to her loneliness . |
| 5 | Leading pacifists were drawn to Guild Socialism , and the ILP itself moved far towards endorsing the idea of self-government in industry . |
| 6 | Such approaches , of course , were ordinarily difficult to resist , for a house never knew when royal gratitude might be of value to it in some application of its own or in some lawsuit ; a number of larger houses , like Bury St Edmunds in 1303 , even found themselves accommodating more than one royal corrodian ; furthermore , the recipients of these requests ranged far outside the hundred or so houses of which the king was patron . |
| 7 | It was easy enough to spot them in the distance if they were in a clearing on the mountainside , but extremely difficult to detect them as Abdullahi and I approached through a tangle of giant heath that rose far above our heads . |
| 8 | Within Europe in particular , ‘ import penetration ’ rose far above the levels of the early fifties , which in turn were similar to the very low levels of the interwar period ( table 10.3 ) . |
| 9 | With no pause between the fountains of rainbow brilliance illuminating the darkness , Gina found herself holding her breath as the spectacle exploded far above her head . |
| 10 | He said we played far to many domestic games , and that he hoped this disater would be a blessing in disguise . |
| 11 | The daring magnitude of this conception has since been obscured by its almost routine enactment in a series of African countries in the 1960s , but it should never be forgotten that India was the test case , and that at the time success in the execution of such a plan seemed far from assured : only a year before Mountbatten 's appointment the then viceroy , Lord Wavell , had been pressing on the Cabinet his ‘ Breakdown Plan ’ , which consisted simply of the phased evacuation of the British from India without any serious attempt to ensure that a viable , much less friendly , government was installed in their place . |
| 12 | As in the 1950s and 1980s , and for many of the same reasons , Labour 's ‘ forward march ’ seemed far from guaranteed . |
| 13 | He would n't talk about the pilgrimage , except to say that he was disappointed at having had to abandon it He seemed far from exalted . |
| 14 | It still seemed far from conclusive . |
| 15 | Staff at the BBC seemed far from happy with the outcome , but the belief was that the row will die down as management concentrates on the market-oriented reforms being ushered in . |
| 16 | Here and there the advance had flowed around little bunches of markers , now isolated far behind the real Front . |
| 17 | As , on many visits to the schools , we argued far into the evening , several Commissioners and their hosts became unclear as to whether Public Schools should be abolished because they were very good or because they were very bad . |
| 18 | Alright , you not got far on this |
| 19 | That failed far from the surface . |
| 20 | As such , and particularly after Empress Elizabeth 's de facto abolition of the death penalty for criminal offences in 1753 , exile to katorga , followed by perpetual exile in Siberia ( ssylka na katorgu v Sibir ) , was to be retained as the harshest form of punishment in the tsarist penal code until the revolutions of 1917 — though of course it survived far beyond that date under a different dispensation . |
| 21 | He stayed at the deanery and talked far into the night about the needs of Durham and its diocese . |
| 22 | She tried to act flippant by shrugging her shoulders and holding out her palms but inside she felt far from flippant . |
| 23 | I never went far with languages before . |
| 24 | Russell 's carbine lay on the table , like he never went far without it ; another thing that was just like an Apache . |
| 25 | At the end of the century Furtwängler made a new excavation , finding many more pieces , and he went far towards recovering the compositions on paper . |
| 26 | To be fair to him , he had repeatedly hinted that , when the evidence was in , it would show that Pound 's contribution went far beyond the mere passing of judgement on particular passages ; and indeed it turned out that the very structure of the poem had been extricated by Pound , rather than conceived and composed by the poet whose name appeared on the title-page . |
| 27 | Overnight the new Soviet government , with plans for social welfare that on paper went far beyond those of Scandinavia or Britain in 1945 , had to take over . |
| 28 | It went far beyond her role as a woman in public life . |
| 29 | But ‘ posturing and pretending ’ went far beyond the unions . |
| 30 | But the Jezebel poems went far beyond vilification of Elizabeth . |