Example sentences of "[pers pn] far [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maclean also concentrated on getting the ball past the talented Umar and denying him further chances to hit crisp drives into the nicks and towards difficult angles . |
| 2 | He remained in the royal household under Richard III , who knighted him and gave him further land in Northamptonshire and London in 1484 . |
| 3 | Gradgrind 's becoming an MP in Hard Times gives him further opportunity for satire : Parliament figures as ‘ the national cinder-heap ’ ( HT ii 11 ) where the MPs , ‘ the national dustmen ’ , get up ‘ a great many noisy little fights amongst themselves ’ ( HT ii 12 ) , and the image recurs in Our Mutual Friend when CD apostrophizes the nation 's legislators : ‘ My lords and gentlemen and honourable boards , when you in the course of your dust-shovelling and cinder-raking have piled up a mountain of pretentious failure , you must off with your honourable coats for the removal of it , and fall to work … or it will come rushing down and bury us alive ’ ( OMF iii 8 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ So you are saying plainly , ’ said Earl Robert , attentive and still , ‘ that there were two murderers , at least in intent , and this wretched brother , once he knew he had struck down the wrong man , had no reason in the world to wish him further harm . ’ |
| 5 | Lord Keith 's career , in which he held important commands in distant waters , particularly at the Cape of Good Hope and in the Mediterranean , gave him further opportunities to strengthen his political interest by advancing his friends in the service . |
| 6 | It was duly arranged that we should meet after work , and it was then that I gave him further details about my ‘ sponsored ’ trip to Paris and about my much more ambitious idea of a trip to Libya . |
| 7 | The recollection appeared to cause him further amusement . |
| 8 | This applies , presumably , to the case where one misfortune sets in train a whole sequence of further misfortunes , each confirming the child 's expectation of what life has to offer him and each giving him further reason to adopt whatever behaviour — flight from reality , antisocial tendencies , and so forth — he used as a way of dealing with the original situation . |
| 9 | She had no need to give it further emphasis , it could not have been clearer . |
| 10 | It further calls for discussion within the trade union movement on this question , with a view to dispelling the myths that surround homosexuality . |
| 11 | The sudden increase in unemployment after 1930 gave it further importance . |
| 12 | These give us further grounds for thinking that there is some characteristic which is common to the postnominal attributives and to the predicative position of the adjective in a relative clause , but which is not found in the prenominal adjectives . |
| 13 | Future clinical research will no doubt give us further insight into the role of lipid abnormalities in the development of macrovascular disease in the diabetic . |